GEORGE YANCY, an African-American philosopher who has been a professor of philosophy at Emory University since the fall of 2015 wrote this article.  It was for The  Stone, A forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless.   This article begins a conversation for all committed church people who are serious about following the Gospel of Christ.  Read the article and let me know what you think, and more importantly, how it makes you feel.

Is your God Dead?

This is not the first time the question of God's presence in our lives has come into question.  135 years ago, Nietzche made the extremely controversial statement:  God is dead.  To paraphrase Scotty Hendricks from his article "God Is Dead": What Nietzsche Really Meant," Hendrisks  points out:

• Nietzsche poses that our idea of God died, not God.
• After the enlightenment, we came to believe that physical laws governed the universe.  Therefore, we did not need God as the source for all morality.  Science could do that for us.  I wonder if this is indeed true?  Especially if one believes that God is behind the physical laws of the universe.
• The idea of God died from our desire to better understand our world.