Category: Religions

We’ve all heard it before.

“Life is meaningless. Meaning is a human construct and a figment of our imaginations. It’s all in your head, man.”

And I hear it more and more these days, and presented in such a way as if the meaninglessness of life is simply “obvious.” As if it was concluded a long time ago that life has no underlying purpose, and that anyone disagreeing just doesn’t have all the facts.

But I simply can’t agree.

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How the funeral of my grandfather caused me to investigate the origins of Judaism and discover a greater appreciation for the idea of god “more like a person than like a thing, more like a mind than like a machine.” 

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We’ve all heard that famous Biblical passage: “In the beginning was the word.” But did you know that it originally read, “In the beginning was the logos?” What’s the difference? And how does a simple word change shed light on perhaps one of the Bible’s greatest lessons?

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