Jesse walks into a restaurant with a group of friends. They look at the menu, and he stares at it for a long while wondering how to minimize his carb intake, looking constantly around at the words emerging from others’ lips, but not really hearing the words. He has already studied the menu online beforehand, […]
The Arm of Authority & The Fire of Freedom
Remember that feeling when you first get out of school for the summer. Feel it in your fingertips; the joy, the thrill, the excitement, all instigated by a feeling of pure freedom. No teacher telling you to study this or that, no rigid schedule, just pure unbounded freedom. Or at least that’s what it seemed […]
Dr. Russell Moore: An Interview on Politics, Religion, & Liberty
Synesis was privileged and honored to recently interview Dr. Russell Moore here in Nashville. Dr. Moore has been a prominent leader and influential voice in the public arena both in the United States and nationally, meeting with presidents, politicians, and other public figures about culture, Christianity, and the role of the church in the world. […]
Pursuing Unity in Diversity
“I get that slavery was bad, but it’s in the past. Why can’t people just get over it? And why do I have to do something about it? I never owned any slaves.” Those comments shocked and unsettled me then and have remained with me ever since. Implicit in her dismissal of historical offenses was […]
God-talk and the Suffering of the Guilty
Suffering is the rule of a ruined paradise. Endemic to the human experience, suffering has vexed our species since its beginning after the Garden. The sufferer anguishes, and the one spared from suffering is spared only for a time. Death, with its many living permutations, comes to all. What is this source of suffering? Humanity […]
Viral Reason
Facts — cheap, plentiful; too many, too often, too varied. The farmer, banker, liberal, conservative, Christian, atheist — they can all go outside, look up at the same sky, feel the same breeze, see the same blue, notice that same storm unfurling in the horizon – clouds rolling, it draws nearer. But why go outside? […]