Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness

Introduction Well, another semester down! Woohoo! I don’t know how much you enjoyed summer breaks as a kid going to school, but I LOVED it! Of course, that time of life is long gone now (ove...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2023/05/memo-to-myself.html

INTRODUCTION I know I have mentioned this before, but I am taking online seminary courses with the goal of becoming a military chaplain someday (soon I hope). Honestly, I need to review old post...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2023/05/spiritual-formation-blogging-assignment.html

 So, I don’t know how you spend your free time, but I like to spend my commute and my running time listening to various audiobooks. I used to listen to podcasts, but I’ve found that I live t...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2022/08/politics-and-me-introduction.html

Northern Lights, taken while visiting Alaska Oct-Nov 2021 Like I said in my I’m trying to get back into blogging more regularly. Something that has been on my mind for a while now is what I...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2022/04/vacation-and-life-plans-general-update.html

Night-time American Village, Okinawa, Japan 35mm film Well, it's only been almost two years since my last post! I think it's time to get this blogging going again. I used to love blogging. I ...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2022/03/getting-back-into-blogging.html

Designed? Not designed? Can we infer design when we see it? So, as I wrote before, I'm currently working in the Middle East as part of my job in the military. I have lots of time on my hands ...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2020/07/hawking-and-logic-from-book-brief.html

These were the temp buildings we started in, not where we are now. So, yesterday I talked about how I had some experience of being deployed with the military. Well, the main reason I was thin...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2020/07/day-two-writing-still-deployed-and.html

INTRODUCTION This paper seeks to analyze the worldview secular humanism and test it to see if it contains the truth about human origins and purpose. In analyzing this worldview, it will be bene...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2020/07/apologetics-application-essay-secular.html

I recently copyedited a friend of mine's book (fourth one I've edited for him). Reading his writing has made me want to get into writing more (again). I used to write much more often and it makes...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2020/07/more-writing-this-is-still-not.html

Much like the previous entry, I'm sharing some essays I've written for my classes. This is one that I wrote for an apologetics class. INTRODUCTION The word “faith” has had a difficult run ...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2020/07/faith-and-reason-in-christianity.html

Since I haven't written anything here for a VERY long time and I'm taking a break from classes and I thought I'd share a couple essays I wrote for my previous classes. This first one is a researc...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2019/01/im-taking-break-from-class-this.html

Here we go again! Let's finish this. I started review/critiquing Bertrand Russell's lecture and I highly recommend that you read part one before continuing here. Without any more intro, let's ju...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2017/11/review-of-bertrand-russells-lecture-why_30.html

So, two instigating factors drove me to read this famous lecture given by Bertrand Russell in 1929 (or at least the text I have was copyrighted in 1929). The first was a conversation online with ...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2017/11/review-of-bertrand-russells-lecture-why.html

This is a response to Richard Bushey's post here . I highly recommend you read his post first. Here I'll give you a few minutes. ... ... Okay, ready? Let's talk about why I disagree with h...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2017/10/do-we-all-need-to-become-scholars.html

The following synopsis of the book of Job was posted by a friend of mine the other day expletives edited out: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2017/09/the-book-of-job.html

So here I am ... sitting in a church service (I won't name the church because I don't want to defame the church), and I'm hit by various disappointments. Those of you that are 30+ years old and r...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2017/08/church-shopping.html

Sorry I'm so flaky on posting. I doubt I have any "regular" readers, so I doubt anyone actually missed my entries, but I apologize nonetheless. I have made some career plans recently that may be ...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2017/04/the-future-of-my-career.html

Before I get to this topic I want to apologize. I have been over a year without an entry (I have been busy but that's a lame excuse). Before I get into the meat of this issue I want to talk about...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2017/02/determinists-delusion.html

I know, these two topics seem unrelated, but I'll try to explain.  First off I want to preface this entry with my intentions here.  Specifically, I am not here to proselytize you to any particu...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2015/08/running-and-relativism.html

First, I'd like to point out that I very much dislike any existential argument, somewhat related to the argument from desire (for God or anything else).  They're very much appeals to the populo...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2015/06/on-existential-argument-for-god.html

So I recently got into a rather heated discussion about this with a friend. The question I've devised, related to our discussion is this: Who is at fault when the student misunderstands the prese...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2015/06/educational-responsibility.html

Based on my post back in December  about trying to break my writer's block (obviously it didn't work), I'm tackling this list of ten things Christians/theists need to keep in mind.  See this ...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2015/03/ten-things-christians-should-keep-in.html

Before I get started let me say "I'm sorry."  I know I probably don't really have regular readers, but if I do, I know I haven't posted regularly since December!  I've had writer's block and th...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2015/03/freedom-of-speech.html

First let me give some background.  My friend and editor of the CAA Newsletter EQUIPPED , +Glen Richmond  recommended that I blog about online debating in light of a rather heated, yet civil d...

http://www.samuelronicker.com/2015/03/how-to-fight-gracefully.html

This is the second of a two-part review of Dr. Ronal Nash’s Is Jesus the Only Savior? (“Inclusivism”).  This review was much better than the first half (in my opinion). Analysis Befo...

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