Opinion

More than 2 million Texans lost power when Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast, and Gov. Greg Abbott wants to know why. The Austin American-Statesman reported Abbott has ordered the Public Utility Commission to conduct an immediate study into why the Houston area has again been hit by widespread power outages.

Each of us, in our own way, smiles on the Fourth of July. We can’t help it.

It seems as if every community, big or small, has been impacted by the problems associated with substance use and drug overdose. Within these communities, these problems extend into the family unit, with people becoming addicted and dying because of drugs.

On Good Friday 1966, Time issued their magazine with the cover emblazoned with just three words: Is God Dead? What followed was a firestorm; Christians once again feeling threatened by an ever more hostile culture, atheist and free-thinkers eagerly awaiting what they just knew would this time be final victory. But both the question itself, and what played out was really nothing new. To be sure the cover garnered much attention and sparked much debate, but it was really nothing new under the sun. The same question had been raised for centuries, millennia even. The truth is, the question of the death of God was first raised by Lucifer, when Eve, in some sense, agreed with him. It seems to me there truly is nothing new under the sun, not even a question about the death of God. Sure enough, thousands of years later Fredrich Nietzsche’s Madman asks the same ageless question: “Do we not hear the noise of the grave-diggers who are burying God? . . . What are these churches now, if they are not the tombs and monuments of God?” These are powerful and timeless questions that reside deep in the soul of most all men; questions that demand answers; questions that deserve answers. And that is precisely the intent of this weekly column, to look at the evidence available to help answer the timeless question: Is God dead?