Terrible weather postponed this conference when it was first planned last year (or was it two years ago?). Now it's back on. I've got limited time, but I hope to hear several of the presentations live. For readers not in Greenville, I'll try to remember to post some...
Worldview
The Mythos of Neutrality
The myth of neutrality isn't just a not-true-idea kind of myth. It's also a powerful-organizing-story kind of myth. The myth of neutrality is a myth in both dictionary senses: 1 A widely held but false belief or idea: he wants to dispel the myth that sea kayaking is...
David Brooks Is a Fundamentalist
An otherwise wise and helpful column from David Brooks—a column noting that it's somewhat hypocritical for American liberals to defend Charlie Hebdo's anti-Muslim provocations—takes an epistemologically naive turn at this point: Provocateurs and ridiculers expose the...
Condescending to Men of Low Estate
Stereotyping and prejudice are endemic to humanity. Conservatives have done it (and do it), and secularists it have done it (and do it). Your vision of a group colors your interpretation of actions performed by individuals in that group. It takes a conscious effort at...
Five Responses to the Newsweek Screed
The 9,000-word, Merry-Christmas, anti-Christian Newsweek screed opens with the following attempt at journalistic objectivity: They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations of homosexuals. They fall on their knees, worshipping at the base of...
Five Reasons not to Sign the Evangelicals for Marriage Equality Petition
It didn't take a prophet to predict this. So I'm not handing in my cessationist credentials when I point out that I did in fact say this was coming: an organized group of evangelical Christians has come out with a legal argument for same-sex "marriage," one which...
RACHE
It's not a very satisfying revenge, but an authoritative proofer nixed my favorite phrase in a little paragraph I just wrote for my current project at BJU Press, one focused on biblical worldview and the CFR metanarrative. This phrase must see the light of day—or,...
Homosexuality and Worldview
I've spent the last year and a half immersed in understanding the Christian worldview and explaining it to twelfth graders. The last few days I've done a lot of writing on homosexuality (after many years of reading on the topic in articles and books), and I just came...
The Declaration of Independence Proves to Be An Illusion
Satan led humankind into covenant disobedience. He tempted humankind to reject the rule of Yahweh and to issue their "declaration of independence" from their Creator. The consequences are devastating. When communion with the Creator of life is broken, death inevitably...
George Marsden on Point of View
I've been thinking a good deal about what George Marsden wrote—in a book I have thoroughly enjoyed (two chapters to go and I'm really eager to see what he says in the final one): Let me say a word about point of view. One of the conventions of the mid-twentieth...
Review: What’s Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life’s Big Questions
What's Your Worldview?: An Interactive Approach to Life's Big Questions by James N. Anderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a unique book, a choose-your-own-adventure book—yes, just like the ones you read when you were a kid, but written as non-fiction on an...
Dr. Bob Jones Sr’s First Use of “All Ground Is Holy Ground”
The sayings of Dr. Bob Jones Sr are legendary around my alma mater. As a frequent victim of chronological snobbery, I was ready to be critical and dismissive of these statements when I first saw them tacked above chalkboards in classrooms. But I was won over by...