Mark W. Meier

Why Are We Here? There’s a quote about the person who dies with the most toys, wins. But what do they win? And who determines who has the...

One of the things I have the hardest time with is frustration. For some reason stop lights turn red just before I am able to slip through...

Over Christmas a lot of the family gathered at Mom and Dad’s house. They live only a block away as a crow (or tufted titmouse) flies from...

Back in the 1970s and 1980s there was a philosophical question, “Can God create a rock He can’t move?” It’s meant as an argument to prove...

There’s a scene in one of the Star Trek movies where Spock says something like, “Logic is the beginning of wisdom.” (I don’t remember him...

It may have been a couple of years ago now. I remember asking someone about UPCs and if it was a language or a representation. For...

What Can God Do? The short answer is, “Anything He wants.” If you’ve read more than a couple of my posts you’ll already know I’m an...

Make Sense? Doesn’t it makes sense that the question of an afterlife (or not) is one of the most important things in life? If there is,...

We’ve all had a Fair Weather Friend. You’re there with a word of support during hard times, they need help moving, and you provide a...

This Means War! I can see it in my mind. “Before” the beginning, in Eternity-past, all the angels were watching God getting ready to...

One of the biggest objections skeptics voice about Christianity is that the Star of Bethlehem was so bright, why is it not mentioned by...

Some carpenters are called “wood butchers” because they hack and chop a piece of wood to make it fit, and if it doesn’t look pretty...

When I was twelve I visualized the end of everything. I was riding my bike along a road and looked up at a local bluff and thought how...

I like parodies. Back in the 1980s there was a series of radio commercials that were spoofs of real commercials. Wham-Care PM had pills...

There’s a monster in Dungeons and Dragons called a Beholder. They typically have one central eye and ten eyes on short tentacles. At...

As I was growing up my family was involved in new home construction. Despite my best efforts, I managed to learn some things along the...

I recently watched a video explaining how humans can’t really understand how space and time are really the same thing. Part of the video...

I work for a company that services a federal government contract. Back in August we had an audit to see if we were filling the...

One of the things I learned in calculus class is when trying to figure out an equation it helps to take a variable and take it to an...

Anyone who has written stories for long enough can tell you about when characters surprised them. One instance comes to mind for me when...