Yearly Archives: 2025

He Loved Us

April 22, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

Jesus loves every person deeply. He desires to spend all eternity with each of us. He wants us to share in His joy. So many people are unable or unwilling to see this. It is the great tragedy of our time. Pope Francis wrote his latest encyclical, He Loved Us, to

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Five Reasons to Believe

April 3, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

There are many good reasons to believe in God and more specifically in Jesus Christ. Individually these reasons are compelling; collectively, they make a powerful case for Christianity. I want to highlight in this post some of the top arguments for God. I have written about these individually before, so

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Aquinas’ Ways to God

March 12, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

Can we demonstrate with our reason that God exists? Saint Thomas Aquinas, following in the footsteps of Plato and Aristotle, thought so. In his Summa Theologica he gives five ways, five logical demonstrations, for believing that God exists. I’m going to look at three of those ways here, beginning first

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Faith and Science: A True Story

February 27, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

Once upon a time, a man came up with a new theory. His theory, if shown to be true, would change the way people understood the universe. Many people opposed his theory. The theory challenged not only their view of the universe but their view of God. They argued against

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Pascal’s wager

February 13, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

Rare is the individual who is a brilliant mathematician and a brilliant philosopher, but Blaise Pascal was such a man. Pascal was a pioneer in the development of probability theory (if you’re watching a sporting event and there’s a graphic on the screen of each’s team probability to win, you

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One hundred million years from now…

January 28, 2025 / Michael Haverkamp

In the early years of Peanuts (1955-56, to be precise), Charles Schultz had a recurring punch line that Linus would deliver. Lucy would call him inside for lunch, or tell him it’s time to go to bed, or inform that he should color giraffes yellow rather than green, or warn

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