Observations on culture, media, politics, celebrity, and collective behavior through the lens of awareness. These pieces examine how attention, outrage, fear, and identity are shaped at scale — and why the world often feels louder, faster, and more reactive than it needs to be.
One of Christianity’s strongest claims about the character of God is also one of its most comforting: God does not lie. If human beings are unreliable, confused, self-interested, and capable of deception, God is supposed to represent something fundamentally different. Christians are encouraged to trust God’s promises precisely because God is understood as perfectly truthful. The idea...
Christianity makes one of the largest claims a religion can make: there is one true God, Jesus uniquely reveals that God, and reconciliation with God ultimately comes through him. For many Christians, this conclusion feels less like a hypothesis than an established fact. They may point to the Bible, the resurrection, fulfilled prophecy, personal experiences of Jesus, answered prayer, the growth...
There are at least three very different claims hidden inside the question of whether Jesus was who Christianity says he was. The first is that Jesus of Nazareth existed. The second is that his followers believed extraordinary things about him, including that he performed miracles and appeared to them after his death. The third is that those supernatural events actually happened. These claims...
One of the most familiar claims in Christianity is that Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament. Depending on which Christian source you encounter, you may hear that Jesus fulfilled dozens, hundreds, or even more predictions concerning the coming Messiah. For believers, these apparent fulfillments can seem like powerful evidence. If texts written centuries before Jesus accurately...
Why Historians Separate Evidence from Belief One of the most persuasive arguments for many Christians is also one of the simplest: “The Bible says it is the Word of God, therefore it is the Word of God.” For someone who already accepts the Bible’s authority, this reasoning may feel entirely satisfying. Yet outside that framework, it raises an important question. Can any book...
One of the most common arguments for the truth of Christianity is surprisingly simple: How could billions of people be wrong? The reasoning feels intuitive. Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with more than two billion adherents. The Bible has been translated into thousands of languages, printed more than any other book in history, and continues to influence cultures around the...
Imagine you’re standing at the edge of a dense forest. Two paths stretch before you. A stranger points toward the left path and confidently says, “This is the only way. Don’t question it.” Another person standing nearby says, “I don’t know which path is correct. Let’s explore together.” Which person would you trust? Most of us would probably choose...
When people think about addiction, they often picture the substance itself. Alcohol. Nicotine. Opioids. Cocaine. Cannabis. Gambling. Social media. Pornography. Shopping. Food. The substance or behavior becomes the center of the conversation, as though it possesses some irresistible power over the person using it. Yet decades of research in psychology and neuroscience paint a more nuanced picture...
We often think of life as a collection of separate problems waiting for separate solutions. If we could just fix our anxiety, improve education, reduce poverty, strengthen our relationships, or reform society, everything else would gradually fall into place. Yet experience keeps teaching us something different. Solving one problem often reveals many others, each connected in ways we hadn’t...
What Marvel, The Boys, and Our Stories About Heroes Reveal Superheroes have always reflected the hopes and fears of the societies that create them. During World War II, Captain America famously punched Adolf Hitler on a comic book cover months before the United States officially entered the war. Superman has fought corrupt businessmen, organized crime, dictators, and even the Ku Klux Klan in...
