Presby-Musings

Twenty years ago, world chess champion and master Gary Kasparov lost a game of chess to IBM's Deep Blue computer.  He would go on to win the match, but the writing was on the wall.  In a rematch fifteen months later, Deeper Blue , IBM's improvement on Deep Blue caused Kasparov to quit in the middle of the match out of frustration.   ''I'm a human being," Kasparov remarked afterward, "When I see something that is well beyond my understanding, I'm afraid." Human beings have been frightened by unknowing since the dawn of time, but I think now more than ever our unknowing is causing some serious issues both within us and the world around us.   Despite all of the knowledge at our fingertips, despite all of the connectedness that we experience through the Internet and social media, we seem more divided, more confused, more afraid than ever before.   It's hard to know what comes next, and to trust that it's all going to be okay--espec...

When I "grew up" and left home at the ripe old age of eighteen, I was so full of doubts regarding my faith I didn't really know what I believed any longer.  I remember once saying out loud, " God , I don't believe you exist." and I was actually disappointed when I wasn't struck with a bolt of lightning. Little did I know that my speaking uncertainty about God into the world, was a perfectly normal and honest act of Christian discipleship .  I thought I had violated the worst rule you could violate as a Christian.  I'd been taught my whole life that the one thing you never, ever, ever doubt was God.  So when I started doing just that--I decided the whole system of belief that I'd once held dear was in question.  So I left it. As it turns out, I may have left my faith, but it didn't entirely leave me.  I found my way back--although it wasn't to the same place I once was, thanks be to God.  But many people experience doubts about Go...