Adjust Your Expectations

July 19, 2019 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / No Comments

Christian discipleship is made more difficult when people imbibe the notion that God wants us happy, healthy, and wealthy. As […]

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Christian discipleship, discipleship, hope, suffering

The Last Visit with Dad

March 28, 2019 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / No Comments

My dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease on a rainy afternoon in December 2017. Afterward, we went out for lunch […]

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death, hope, mortality, resurrection

Heaven, hope, and my dad’s eightieth birthday

April 1, 2014 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist

Back in 1980 I purchased my first record: The Who’s “Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy”. Sure, the title is weird (surpassed only […]

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existentialism, heaven, hope, immortality

Thoughts on universalism and hope (a response to Nate)

March 17, 2014 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 80 Comments

Back in early February I wrote a response to Nate — one of our resident academic philosophers — and his […]

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defeater, hope, justification, rationality, universalism

Will love win in Newtown? Reflections on an unspeakable tragedy

December 29, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 3 Comments

It has been said that we’re all separated by a maximum of six degrees of introduction from every other person on […]

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evil, God, hope, Newtown, suffering