But what I will hazard to discuss is spiritual truths as seen from a single pair of eyes - mine.  I won't feel guilty about it either, since everyone has the same freedom to entertain the discussion just as everyone has the same freedom to totally avoid it and even to avoid these pages.

Spiritual "truth" is a two edged sword.  Nearly everyone claims to have the market cornered on this so called spiritual truth and is well enough versed to lay down their lives for whatever that truth may be - or so they say.  The problem with all of this seriousness is that nearly everyone's truth is slightly or significantly skewed from nearly everyone else's.  It is not just confusing, it is damned confusing - pun entirely intended.

So just how does one deal with all this so-called truth that is so well meaning that it leads to unbelievable unhappiness, division and strife, especially within the Christian family?  I can tell you that not only do I not know - I probably will never know.  BUT - I do know that if one can somehow avoid the pitfalls of the endless and almost always hate-filled arguments, there is a vast treasure to be found in this philosophy that has emerged as the most powerful and most life-changing of all human philosophies since the dawn of time.  Hate it, avoid it, ignore it, embrace it, fight it, live it, die for it, laugh at it - no matter what approach you take, it will not go away!

I am a scientist.  I am an engineer.  I am an explorer.  I am also a person of faith.  They build upon one another and make each stronger.  Without my faith - the rest would be empty, futile and; in the end, terribly meaningless.