Christianity doesn't guarantee prosperity of every kind for every individual. Struggles in one's health, one's marriage, one's work, and even one's faith are par for the Christian course (Jas 1:3). But, overall, we expect the biblical vision of the good life to...
Worldview
Joy Davidman Lewis’s Brilliant Take-Down of Materialism
Just yesterday I was thinking, "I've just got to recover that fantastic quotation from the Joy Davidman Lewis biography I listened to on audio last year." (The downside of audio books—and the reason I typically "read" only fiction and biography in audio format—is that...
Is Your Brain a Meat Machine?
Edge.org is running a fascinating series of articles asking major public figures in science, “What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known?” Prominent atheist and evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne’s answer is “Determinism.” In his words, “All matter...
Jerry Coyne Vs. C.S. Lewis
Reductive materialist Jerry Coyne doesn't believe human choices are real. They are, he says, just matter and energy doing what they've always done. He thinks, however, that we should still “punish criminals,” that we should, in fact, remove them from society when...
Read moreWhatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods.
Jordan Peterson Quote
A piquant comment from Canadian professor Jordan Peterson: Whatever a person values most highly is their god. If people think they are atheistic, it means is they are unconscious of their gods.
Review: Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was utterly taken with this book, first to last. The philosophical portions were elegantly written, insightful, and persuasive. The anecdotal interludes about...
Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption Prints
BJU grad and friend Chris Koelle did an excellent job with the illustrations for the book I authored/edited, Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption. You can buy them as prints at a special discount today only (11/28/16) with free shipping.
New Article in Modern Reformation
I have a new article out in the November-December issue of Modern Reformation. It's entitled "American Idol, American Culture, the Christian Church, and Your Bible Study." I explore the impact on the church of the Western cultural forces of "authenticity and...
Scientific By-ends
“Scientists will often portray the Big Bang as if it were known fact, but it isn’t,” says Brian Clegg, a Cambridge-educated science writer. “It’s a theory within a very speculative field of science, cosmology, which is about as speculative as it gets. I’m not saying...
An Admitteldy One-Sided Conversation on Theological Liberalism
A liberal Catholic with a PhD from a liberal Catholic institution saw my article in Answers Magazine critiquing one of the more famous put-downs Richard Dawkins has made of Christians; he liked the article and wanted to dialogue with me. I acquiesced, but soon found...
Review: You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit by James K.A. Smith My rating: 4 of 5 stars You are what you love, not what you think, Smith says. What you think is, rather, a fruit of what you love. So far so good. If I may say so, I felt like Smith was...
Review: The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World’s Most Notorious Atheist
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens: The Restless Soul of the World's Most Notorious Atheist by Larry Alex Taunton My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was really excellent. It was level-headed, insightful, interesting. There's no way I would have read a Thomas Nelson book on...