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ABBA Resurrection? A Reflection on Mortality

September 3, 2021 by Randal

Yesterday, ABBA released their first new music in forty years: two singles from a forthcoming album. The first single, “I Still Have Faith in You,” features Frida on the lead. At 75, it is hardly surprising that her voice has deepened, and I don’t know what studio effects may have been added. But for the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ABBA, hope, mortality, resurrection

Adjust Your Expectations

July 19, 2019 by Randal

Christian discipleship is made more difficult when people imbibe the notion that God wants us happy, healthy, and wealthy. As a result, when things go awry, as they inevitably do, people often experience a crisis of faith for which they could have been far better prepared if their expectations had been set properly from the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christian discipleship, discipleship, hope, suffering

The Last Visit with Dad

March 28, 2019 by Randal

My dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease on a rainy afternoon in December 2017. Afterward, we went out for lunch to a restaurant downtown. Dad got confused and thought we were in Mexico. “Wow,” I joked, “It’s a lot cheaper to go on vacation when you have Alzheimer’s!” Gallows humor is a dark and welcome […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: death, hope, mortality, resurrection

Heaven, hope, and my dad’s eightieth birthday

April 1, 2014 by Randal

Back in 1980 I purchased my first record: The Who’s “Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy”. Sure, the title is weird (surpassed only by REO Speedwagon’s “You Can Tune a Piano But You Can’t Tuna Fish” in sheer badness), but still, I loved that album. Among the many memorable lyrics, one particular phrase stuck in my mind: “I hope […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: existentialism, heaven, hope, immortality

Thoughts on universalism and hope (a response to Nate)

March 17, 2014 by Randal

Back in early February I wrote a response to Nate — one of our resident academic philosophers — and his critique of greater goods theodicy. (See “Is God a user? A response to Nate’s Principle“.) Nate offered a reply a few days later but with the flurry of activity it was never properly responded to. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: defeater, hope, justification, rationality, universalism

Will love win in Newtown? Reflections on an unspeakable tragedy

December 29, 2012 by Randal

It has been said that we’re all separated by a maximum of six degrees of introduction from every other person on this globe. In the case of the Newtown tragedy, I’m separated by but two steps. My mother knows Rob Charach, the principal of Linden Christian School in Winnipeg, MB. And Linden is the school that was […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evil, God, hope, Newtown, suffering

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