Excerpts from a lengthy, incisive, must-read from Alastair Roberts: The supposed shallowness of pop culture is deceptive: It is a realm where brilliant and talented people go to try to shape minds at their most unguarded and impressionable. It is on the ground of...
Worldview
Denying What Anyone Can See
Here's what strikes me about this oft-shared-on-my-timeline video: Christians (and creationists in particular) have been roundly criticized by scientific naturalism for denying "what anyone can see with their two eyes," for denying the "clear evidence" against the...
The Big Story that Defines Historiography
The following quotes come from Ken Myers' recent Mars Hill Audio Journal interview of Christopher Shannon, author of The Past as Pligrimage. I believe they are quotations from Shannon's book, but Myers was a little ambiguous and I was unable to confirm this (Google...
Come to My Class
I live my life in the grip of a few powerful, simple, biblical ideas. One of them is CFR: Creation, Fall, Redemption. CREATION One of my literary heroes said, "God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that He may love and...
My Skagit Valley Herald Pro-Life Article
After I saw the Center for Medical Progress videos (I forced myself to watch every one), I knew I had to do something—something even more tangible than a vote—to combat the evil of abortion. I almost attended a protest at an abortion clinic in Greenville, but it just...
Evolutionary Progress
Listening to C.S. Lewis on the bus this morning: Mechanism, like all materialist systems, breaks down at the problem of knowledge. If thought is the undesigned and irrelevant product of cerebral motions, what reason have we to trust it? As for emergent evolution, if...
The Just-So Story about Just-So Stories
We all view new ideas and experiences through our worldview lenses. Every time we turn around, Christians are explaining something through the lenses provided by the Bible, telling a story about God's goodness in our lives. Every time they turn around, believers in...
Excellent, Positive, Constructive Comment on what Conservatism Is
Roger Scruton: There is a kind of conservatism that sees all political questions as reducible to economics, with the free market as the ruling principle and the expansion of consumer choice as the only coherent political program. This way of looking at things can be...
The Myth of Neutrality. Yet Again.
This from Alan Jacobs is real good. The myth of neutrality is one of the most useful insights I've ever been given, and the ability to spot belief in that myth is essential if you're going to be a reader. People's worldviews will out. If you don't believe me,...
Richard John Neuhaus on the Secular University
This comment from a brief article by the late Richard John Neuhaus is brilliant, and important: A secular university is not a university pure and simple; it is a secular university. Secular is not a synonym for neutral. Not to say that Jesus is Lord is not to say...
“There’s no God in Transformers!”
My wife and I do allow our children to watch some TV, but we often feel vaguely guilty about it, even though we’re super careful in what and how much they watch. Here’s one reason why we feel that guilt: my five-year-old son was watching his then favorite cartoon, a...
Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption Promo Video
Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption now has a promo page on bjupress.com. If you haven't yet purchased a copy, you will want to do so now that there is a promo page. Bryan Smith, the presenter on the video there, is the one whose vision I was trying to live...