I used to expect God to be in control over pretty much everything.      If something happened, I figured God was the Almighty One who either caused it or allowed it.   Something good happened, God was the One who caused it.  And something bad?   God could have stopped it, but instead allowed it to happen; for reasons God alone knew why!    God was always in control over the universe, micromanaging from afar.   God was omnipotent, able to start or stop anything God so desired.      I used to...

Is it just me?  Or do Americans seem to be getting angrier with each passing year?   Or month?  Week?  Day?   Sure, we’ve had road rage for years and years.   Middle fingers of fate have been waved across horn-honking intersections for as long as I’ve been around.   School or playground bullies have too often had their way probably since, well, schools and playgrounds, I would suppose.   But I can’t get over how rude people are toward each other over seemingly nothing these days.  Civility...

WHAT IF GREATNESS ISN’T GREAT?   MÜLLER-LYER ILLUSION  – What do you notice about the relative lengths of the two red lines? The arrowheads and arrowtails alone may affect your perception of the line length. In this image, those lines are extended to create a dimensional drawing of walls, where the red line in the far corner appears to be full wall height, while the closer red line is not. But the red lines are actually the same length.   Okay, so maybe you’ve seen this or one of many other...