Category: Culture

Culture Philosophy

Piano Tuning & Descartes

Last summer we got a free upright piano. Even though it was a somewhat beat-up middle-of-the-road piano from 1987, I was pretty excited because it’s the first piano I’ve ever owned. We had to move it ourselves and, fortunately, we had some friends who were willing to help us out. As you might imagine, the […]

R. L. Solberg 
Culture Faith

A Pharisaical Phenomenon

Recently I found myself in an online discussion with a friend in which I was critical of a satirical meme I felt promoted a cynical, anti-Christian narrative. My point was that we need to give our fellow believers, even the wealthy ones, some grace to be human and flawed. No one really knows the heart of […]

R. L. Solberg 
Culture Faith

The Matter of Friendly Fire

Have you seen those posts on social media about why no one sings in church anymore or 5 things Christians should stop saying, or maybe those memes of Republican Jesus aimed at pointing out the hypocrisy of born again right-wingers? Apparently, it’s now trendy for Christians to slam other Christians. While at times I agree […]

R. L. Solberg 
Culture Philosophy

The Ghazi Enigma

Ecologist Dr. Elaine Smith was studying the animal life in the forested area of a popular African zoo, with the goal of making sure its ecosystem was as balanced as possible. This forest was home to a small mammal called a Ghazi whose population displayed a strange behavior. Every week, in what appeared to be […]

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Culture Philosophy Politics

The Wade Resonance

It’s like a science fiction horror plot; imagine an epidemic with a 100% mortality rate that suddenly pops up in the Australian outback.  It spreads to the small towns, then to larger cities, and over the course of just two generations, it kills every man, woman, and child, leaving the entire island of Australia, 3 million square […]

R. L. Solberg 
Culture Politics

Three Facts

Here are three facts. Feel free to draw your own conclusions: On September 11, 2001, nearly three thousand Americans were killed in the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history. From that day until January 2009 there were no other radical Islamic terrorist attacks on US soil. Since January 2009 we’ve had the Fort Hood […]

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Culture Philosophy

A Dogmatic Permutation

I’m noticing a troubling trend with these mass shooting tragedies, like the San Bernadino massacre that happened yesterday. But before I get there, let me first say how heartbreaking it is that we’re experiencing so many mass shootings so often that trends are beginning to emerge. What I’m starting to see—and I hasten to add that […]

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Culture Faith Philosophy

A Counter Perspective

For me, looking at an issue from a completely different angle really helps provide some perspective. I like to consider what it might look like when viewed from the opposite side of the table. Imagine if this was how the news stories read late Friday night: “During their attack on the Bataclan concert hall witnesses […]

R. L. Solberg 
Culture Faith Philosophy

Adrift At Sea

Unlike any time in our nation’s history, we are seeing a horrible cultural phenomenon where people who are disturbed, evil, and/or mentally unhealthy are deciding that mass murder is a viable option for them. You can’t argue with the fact that Americans today have relatively easy access to guns. But we’ve had easy access to […]

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