David R Smith

“The great pioneers in physics – Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Copernicus – devoutly believed themselves called to find evidences of God in the physical world.”

“The difference between Christianity and religion is simple. Religion makes impositions upon people. Christianity simply makes propositions.”

“Just because it’s in the Bible doesn’t mean you should preach it.”

“The purpose of life is to live fully, not long.”

“To believe that people are basically good after Auschwitz, the Gulag and other horrors of our century, is a statement of irrational faith, as irrational as any fanatical religious belief. …

When Helen Keller was nineteen months old, she contracted an illness that left her blind and deaf for life. It was not until she was ten years old that she …

“Coach, if you need one yard, I’ll get you three yards. If you need five yards, I’ll get you three yards.”

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.”

For several thousand years, sex education was simple: do it the way God says do it. However, that straightforward counsel began to undergo a major overhaul in 1964 with the …

Christians, especially church leaders, often think that the best way to attract the unchurched or reconnect with the de-churched is to water down or whitewash our teaching. Nothing could be …