Why Won’t Non-Christians Listen to Our Evidence?
This quote has been bouncing around in my head a lot since I read it a few weeks ago. It's John Frame, presuppositionalist apologist, responding to Gary Habermas, evidentialist apologist: The attitude of many [non-Christian] people today is that, whatever Habermas and the other [evidentialist] apologists may say, there must be some explanation of the data other than the traditional Christian explanation. We may be able to refute some naturalistic explanations of the biblical reports, but we...
A Philosophy of Church Websites
I posted this on my web design site some time ago, but I thought I'd share it with my blog readers. I started doing graphic design because I wanted Christian ministry materials to match the quality of their message. That was in a day when few churches had websites. Now, most do. But my burden hasn't changed. Your website is your image to every potential visitor and community member who stumbles onto it. Have you ever thought through what this means for your church's website? I have. Let me...
After Virtue
This week I've been plowing through Alasdair MacIntyre's landmark 1981 book After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. MacIntyre's destructive argument is very important, I think. His constructive argument I'm still reading through, but he's given enough indication of where he's going that I'm afraid I won't be persuaded (more on that in a minute). MacIntyre opens the book with an extended and very insightful illustration. He envisions a future in which a series of environmental disasters descends...
Who Had the Better Argument in the Civil War?
I've been listening to a bunch of Al Mohler "Thinking in Public" interviews. Very good stuff. I was struck by the following exchange about the Civil War. Mohler asks articulate and accomplished historian Alan Guelzo the following question about that war: Who had the better argument in that particular debate? Not in terms of what the preferred outcome might have been in terms of the war and its aftermath, but just in terms of the argument about the essence of the American system of a republican...
Review: The Next Generation Leader
The Next Generation Leader by Andy Stanley My rating: 1 of 5 stars Stanley offers a summary of his views on leadership at the end of the book: Play to your strengths. Delegate your weaknesses. Be courageous. Be clear in the face of uncertainty. Find a leadership coach. Maintain your character. I listened to the book from Christian Audio (thanks to them for the review copy), so I'll just record most of the thoughts that struck me and interested me enough to pause and write them down. They'll...