Mark Ward on the Concordance Tool on Faithlife Today
Read the article I wrote (referenced in the video) here.
Review: A History of Western Philosophy and Theology
A History of Western Philosophy and Theology by John M. Frame My rating: 4 of 5 stars I have read some but not all of the philosophers John Frame canvasses in this book. That almost certainly describes you, too. So you’re probably in precisely the same boat I’m in when it comes to Western philosophy—that creaky boat full of hopefuls traveling from the land of ignorance to the land of knowledge. But (and please bear with this analogy, ahem) we hopefuls need guides to get us across the water....
Sacred Social Science
I thought the following quotations from Ken Myers' interview with Christian Smith were so valuable that I took them down word-for-word. Smith is the author, most recently, of The Sacred Project of American Sociology. This is from the book (taken down from Myers' quotation of it): Sacred matters are never ordinary, mundane, or instrumental. They are reverenced, venerated, and defended as sacrosanct by the social groups that hold them as sacred.... This is exactly the character of the dominant...
Insightful Quotation from Francis Spufford
This quotation has really caught my fancy recently as a good summary of the way conservative Christians are viewed by the surrounding culture in Western nations: Believers aren’t weird because we’re wicked. We’re weird because we’re inexplicable; because, when there’s no necessity for it that anyone sensible can see, we’ve committed ourselves to a set of awkward and absurd attitudes which obtrude, which stick out against the background of modern life, and not in some important or...
Article in Answers Magazine
I originally wrote this article for the New York Times opinion page, but it wound up in a slightly less partisan publication, Answers Magazine. (To be clear, the article has been edited a bit to reflect the change of audience.) I just got my copy: I pray that the article will be beneficial to the readers. It was pretty fun working with the team at Answers, including my former colleague Mike Mathews, who gave me some great...