Scott Carter

At 20:17:40 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) on Sunday July 20, 1969 the Eagle Lander of the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon. One of those dates that will be marked forever in human history. Less known, certainly at the time, was a private ritual going on in the lander. Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin had the […]

There is a word in the Greek New Testament that we inadequately translate as “sympathy”: splagchnizomai. It means something like “to be moved in the intestines” or more perhaps more succinctly “gut wrenching compassion.” In Luke 10 the Samaritan who sees the man who has been beaten and robbed is moved by splagchnizomai; in Matthew […]

I saw it posted yesterday “Treason is the Reason for the Season” which, from a certain perspective, is true. I do not want to get into the historical social problems at the moment, the reasons behind the revolution. Instead I want to talk about it at its best. Tyranny and Injustice are unacceptable and should […]

I had someone say to me few weeks ago , regarding someone who was engaged in self-harm, “maybe she thinks its cute.” No one hurts themselves because they think it is cute. As a society we have come pretty far in no longer villainizing those with physical needs. We no longer condemn them, no longer […]

Here is an ethical question: how much moral responsibility do you bear for actions, with or without direct approval, carried out by others who represent you? Sometimes the answer is obvious. Hiring a hit man, most of us would say, makes you just as guilty of murder as if you had pulled the trigger. On […]

There are some books I have read multiple times. Through college I probably read The Lord of the Rings every year from the time I was ten, and I have read it through a few times since then. Growing up in a small Southern Baptist Church the book that we talked the most about, of […]