Author Archives: jackpelham

I’ve been working on this title question for over 12 years, but I’ve never taken a stab at putting all the answers I’ve collected in one concise article until now. The goal of this article is to be brief, while … Continue reading →

If you talk hard about this world’s need for truth telling―or better yet, if you do some telling of hard truths in the specific―it will likely not be long at all until some diligent churcher shows up to make the … Continue reading →

I’m sorry that I don’t have statistics for this, because I know that impressions can be inaccurate. Even so, it seems to me that I am detecting some important and troubling society trends that need the immediate attention of an … Continue reading →

Do NOT tell him the truth about himself!Are you CRAZY??? It is the very monster from which he has beenHiding all of these years.And if YOU bring it up, just think How unfair and cruel that is! You owe it … Continue reading →

There he stands, recently disemboweled By the razor-edge of your rhetorical question,And all he can think of at this pointIs to insult your swordsmanship,Demanding that a better fencerWould elaborate.

They lean so hard on their surrogate certainties,Putting their faith wherever they mayTo keep at bay the vexing question―That destroyer of worlds―That unsettler of minds―That upsetter of apple carts.

Somehow, he had gotten the ideaThat he was using his own brainTo do his own processingOf the things he would discuss.

It was his chiefest aim in lifeTo be like everyone else,By which he most certainly did not meanThose who are unlike everyone else,But only those who are like everyone else.

Deep thinking is so uncommon in today’s churches that the one who is doing it will seem quite the misfit. The one trying to understand how all the Bible details were to fit together―the one trying to make sure the … Continue reading →

One danger with giving generous quarter to investigation is that one might well chance upon a truth here or there that he is not willing to admit into his beliefs.