A high school English teacher would use three words to describe how he wanted his students to write: pithy, terse and succinct. By that the students took it to mean that he didn’t want them to waste words and space on the paper. He wanted them to pack as much meaning into a few words as possible. Of course it made sense to them from a mechanical standpoint: they used typewriters and white-out. The...
2. Who God Is
John 16:12-15
Illustration
Luke Bouman
When I was a student, we had an assignment: "Prove or disprove the existence of God" in ten pages. One clever answer used less than a page, and got top marks for the effort. The student wrote to the effect that the assignment was not possible using the rules of logical proof. For in using the available conventional starting point, we would only be able to use the things that can be observed and...
