life Archives - Keith Shields

Life is Fragile

Perhaps now is the time to remind ourselves that life is fragile. We have all experienced a greater measure of our own bodily fragility ever since our world declared a world-wide pandemic. We realized that there are viruses that not only make us sick but can even kill us. And the virus has killed young, old, and in…

2017 in Review Part 4

I have spent a good deal of time and ink in a review of 2017 and perhaps it is nearly time to turn our gaze toward 2018. Part 4 of this review will hit a few more of the biggest highlights of the latter half of 2017. In July of 2017 I managed to publish…

2017 in Review Part 3

Not everyone enjoys year-end reviews but there is certainly some value in looking back on our own year. I am hopeful that this guide through a year of blogs may remind you of the significant events in your year. It took watching the movie twice, but Arrival eventually became one of my favourite movies of…

2017 In Review, Part 2

Perhaps the best book I had opportunity to read in 2017 was the book by Dennis Venema and Scott McKnight, Adam and the Genome. The authors explain the implications of recent genetic research and evolutionary theory and then seek to read the Bible in light of these implications. Everyone comes to the Bible with a…

2017 Review Part 1

Recognising that it may take me a few posts to accomplish this, I have begun to look back over the year 2017. A year of blog posts helps me to capture the things that have been on my mind throughout the year. Life and death and what happens when this life is over are never…

Life As We Know It

The combined information in two articles within a recent edition of Science News Journal[1] can lead to some intriguing speculation. One of the greatest assumptions of the search for extraterrestrial life is that we will likely find life where there is water. This is a valid hypothesis, for we know that life, as we know…

Life and Death in God’s Good Creation

God created a world in which one creature consumes another to survive. We may wish it was otherwise; we may think it would have been a better world if God had made it so that we humans could synthesize energy from the sun, but that is not the world God created. Besides which, even grass which…

Religious Nones and a Spiritual Remnant

Our world is becoming more secular; a disputable, but defendable statement. We are told that more people than ever have become religious nones. That is, there is an increase in the number of people who reject a belief in God, creation, spirituality, and purpose. They insist that the universe happened by chance, has no purpose,…

Tomorrow, You’re Always a Day Away

How do we go about living in the present? It seems that we are always either living in the past or looking at the future. How do I stay focused on this moment right here as my fingers dance over the keyboard of my laptop computer? Wendell Berry speaking of universities said, “It was preparing…

Celebrate This Heartbeat

The older I get the more precious time becomes. This morning as I was walking from my condo to my parking place, I realized I was cursing the amount of time it was taking me to get there. Minutes matter. I love life and I find that I don’t want to waste a single second;…