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Clown Car Inquiries

“Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day. Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town, waiting for someone or something to show you the way.” —R. Waters My father, who considered himself a “quiet atheist,” once asked me a question […]

R. L. Solberg 5 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Faith Personal Theology

To Be Earned

I fondly remember when my oldest daughter Sami was a toddler and just starting to read. She would sit in my lap with a book, open it up to a random page and point to a word. I would ask her, “What does that word say?” Her adorable little toddler finger would trace the writing […]

R. L. Solberg 5 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Apologetics Creativity Faith Personal Theology

A Party for a Book

We threw a party for a book, and boy was it fun. My first book, Torahism: Are Christians Required to Keep the Law of Moses? was released on Williamson College Press on November 5, 2019. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a wonderful evening at Williamson College in Franklin, […]

R. L. Solberg 5 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Faith Personal Philosophy

An Open Letter to My Wife on Our Anniversary

Dear Deb, I have a confession to make. I didn’t know what I was doing on June 11, 1991, when I asked you to marry me. I hadn’t thought things through. I didn’t consult a list to see if you “checked all the boxes,” or consider how I was going to support us. I just […]

R. L. Solberg 7 years agoJuly 3, 2021

Faith Personal Philosophy

Comfort v. Truth

In a recent conversation with a beloved family member the topic turned to religion and the different things people believe. I told him I’d recently enrolled in classes at a seminary and was planning to pursue a master’s degree in theology. After explaining the path that led me to this decision he replied that he […]

R. L. Solberg 7 years agoNovember 21, 2020

Faith Personal

The Dawning of a Power Outage

In modern society, the use of electricity has so permeated our everyday existence that we have no paradigm for life without it. To wit, my fatuous thought process the last time we experienced a power outage due to a storm. I was watching TV when suddenly the world around me was plunged into darkness and […]

R. L. Solberg 9 years agoNovember 21, 2020