Jul 10, 2019 | Apologetics, Explanatory Power
Too many Christians allow low-simmering doubt into their minds because the dominant Western secular cultural narrative assumes materialism at every point, that is that the material, matter, is all that exists. And, if materialism is true, Christianity is not. In the secular West, we are programmed to be materialists. From our earliest memories media, entertainment, and education are indoctrinating us into a materialist view of reality, as if it were the true nature of reality. It is not, and scientific knowledge is making it more untenable every day. Unfortunately the average Christian in the pew every Sunday doesn’t know this, and doubt easily creeps in: maybe, they think, this Christianity thing is a bunch of hooey. It also is not.
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Jul 8, 2019 | Epistemology - Trust
So much of life comes down to epistemology, what can we know, how we know, if we can know. It’s unfortunate that so few Christians realize this, or have ever come across the word. This is important because the credibility of Christian truth claims in the postmodern, post-Christian secular West rest on questions of knowing. The default epistemological stance of our age is skepticism; the hole is the thing, not the doughnut. And whether Christians are aware of it or not, this skepticism affects us too. My passion is to teach Christians to know that we can know! Beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Jul 4, 2019 | Theology
Since everyone else it seems has commented on the unfortunate and untimely death of Ms. Evans, I figured I would as well because there are important lessons to be learned from her short time on this earth. In case you are not familiar with Evans, she was an author, blogger, and provocateur who embraced something called progressive Christianity. This version of the faith is nothing new, having been invented, if you will, in the early 20th century amid the fundamentalist-modernist controversies. Those conflicts gave us “liberal Christianity,” the forerunner of the progressive Christianity of today. (more…)
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