For many years I wrote about fiction, story, belief, ordinary life, and the questions that shaped my work. More than two thousand essays remain here—not because every one represents my current thinking, but because together they tell the story of a writer learning over time.
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Is There Happiness without Jesus?
Here’s the link to this article by Merle Hertzler. Perhaps to you, Christ is the only hope in this world. Your life is centered on him. He is…
The Coming Apocalypse and U.S. Foreign Policy on Israel
Here’s the link to this article by Bart Ehrman. March 29, 2023 One section of new book Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says About the End explains some of the…
Why Do Humans Tell Stories? Fiction as Life-Simulation.
Here’s the link to this article. In recent years, scientists have been writing books about the reasons why we tell each other stories. Neurobiologists have discovered that when a…
Richard L. Fricks 