Apprentice Owl Apologetics

                This one may be most of an extremely odd, or extremely basic question, but I have spent 2 weeks working on a frustrating work project and this hit me at bible study. People have different ideas about Christianity, even within the religion itself (see my thoughts on prosperity gospel). What do I personally think of Christianity?                 To start, I want to give a quick testimony over how I got here. I was born and raised in a church, so when I was young I accepted much of what I was taught, but thought to ask questions that my parents answered for me. When I was in college I was seriously challenged by other worldviews for the first time. I was depressed for a while thinking about if I had been brought up wrong or that there wasn’t anything after death. My father helped me through the depression and both of my parents supplied me with my first...

                I’ve been thinking about a lot of the media events where sports stars have been sitting or kneeling to protest racial discrimination in our country. People have thought poorly of these people and have shared their thoughts. People of color have come forward in defense of the protesting athletes saying, you don’t get to say anything because you didn’t grow up a person of color. A thought hit me tonight. Jesus tells a parable that strikes a chord with me on this topic. In Matthew 20, Jesus tells the parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matt. 20:1-16). In this tale, an owner of a vineyard who goes out throughout a day to hire workers at a set wage. Now when the day came to an end, the owner called in the workers that he had hired in the order of the last workers he had hired to the first. When the first hires came, they expected more, but they were paid the same as those who were hired later in the day. Instead they were al...