David Schrader, PhD

Broken promises leave us feeling disillusioned and empty. You would think we would learn to tell the truth and keep our promises. But every day we are inundated with politicians that promise everything and say anything just to get elected. They won't take unpopular stands. The media is also complicit in that they will either misrepresent the news or deliberately leave out information that would frame a story truthfully. Advertisers al;soget inj on the act. They tell us to buy this, get that,...

I have had many conversations over the years with religious skeptics. They are not in short supply. I’ve heard all types of expressions of doubt and unbelief. They often mirror the sentiments shared in the following letter written by a seventeen-year-old student to a friend: You ask me my religious views: you know, I think, that I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them, and from a philosophical standpoint Christianity is not even the best. All religions, that is,...

If you have ever read the Old Testament, it’s amazing how many times God says that Israel, “forgot the Lord their God.”   After the...