Category Archives: Grains of Sand

A Brief Biography of God: Epilogue – Coma Dreams

Posted on August 4, 2016 by Bruce Pegg

In 2011, a group of researchers from the Universities of Liège, Wisconsin and Milan published the results of a study that set out to determine whether coma patients were able to dream. They concluded that not only could patients in … Continue reading →

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Something Happened

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Bruce Pegg

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided … Continue reading →

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You Always Have The Poor With You

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Bruce Pegg

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him. … Continue reading →

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You Say That I Am A King

Posted on November 22, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?” Pilate replied, “I am not a Jew, … Continue reading →

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A Brief Biography of God Part Four: Life Support

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

After hanging around the planet for millennia, messing with humans only to have them mess right back, our favorite Supreme Being took just a couple of hundred years to go from from comfortable middle age to life support.

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A Brief Biography of God Part Three: The Midlife Crisis

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Somewhere around 9,000 years ago, give or take a few thousand years, humans began to abandon their hunter-gatherer cultures. They started to domesticate livestock and cultivate crops, which meant that they could stop wandering the land and start to build … Continue reading →

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A Brief Biography of God Part Two: The Awkward Teenage Years

Posted on March 29, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

So God’s biography begins with humans attempting to provide a very basic and primitive explanation of creation. Some ancient societies imagined multiple gods and goddesses responsible for different natural phenomena—the sun, water, the seasons, nature’s bounty were all personified by human-like … Continue reading →

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A Brief Biography of God Part One: The Early Years

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

The image of God, or of a supernatural being or beings somehow controlling the universe, must have entered the human brain very early in our history on this planet. Creationists and evolutionists and everyone in between, I think, can agree … Continue reading →

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A Brief Biography of God: Prologue

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Originally written in 2007 under the title “A Short History of God,” this series of essays lay out the foundation of my personal beliefs about religion and spirituality. Much of what I say here will be familiar to readers of … Continue reading →

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