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Conservatism, the Protestant Dilemma, and the Theocratic Element
This post was inspired by what was for me an eye opening piece at American Reformer by Timon Cline titled, “Can Protestants be Conservative?” I’ll explain what he means and lay out some of his arguments below, but this piece is really about setting up why Cline’s...
Epistemology and the Fall: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Knowledge is better than ignorance, knowing than not knowing, as you can appreciate when you see the pilot enter the cockpit on a flight you’re about to take. Or when you see the surgeon and medical professionals wheel a loved one into an operating room. Or let’s say...
Ephesians 2 & 3: God’s Sovereign Almighty Power for Our and the World’s Salvation from Sin
After being a born-again Christian for five years, one night by God’s providence I was introduced to Reformed theology, what some call Calvinism. In its broad contours it goes back to the great Bishop of Hippo (North Africa), Augustine (354-430), who emphasized man’s...
Articles on Theology
Ephesians 2 & 3: God’s Sovereign Almighty Power for Our and the World’s Salvation from Sin
After being a born-again Christian for five years, one night by God’s providence I was introduced to Reformed theology, what some call Calvinism. In its broad contours it goes back to the great Bishop of Hippo (North Africa), Augustine (354-430), who emphasized man’s...
The Importance of Biblical Christian Anthropology: The Doctrine of Man
We human beings are a conundrum, often more of a mystery to ourselves than to others. It’s clear there is something terribly wrong with us, and we’ve been trying to figure it out since the dawn of time. There is also something amazing about us, something very much...
What is Sin? The Key to Unlocking the Meaning of the Universe
That’s quite a claim for such a little word, but it’s a word that contains multitudes, a phrase coming from Walt Whitman’s famous poem, “Song of Myself,” in a collection called Leaves of Grass. It comes specifically from this passage which will make a good...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Mind Over Matter is Not a Cliché: Living as the Image of God
One of the most powerful things in the world is the human mind. God created a marvel of inconceivable engineering that produces a phenomenon going well beyond the mere matter of the machine running it, the brain. These two things, the immaterial mind and the material...
The Existential Crisis that is The Passage of Time
I think about time all the time. You might think this happens more as you enter your elderly years, but I’ve been thinking about it for a very long time. Well, not in biblical time, but in regular old human time. One of my favorite sayings is that God is never in a...
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Conversion: The Poverty of Atheism and an Eschatology of Hope
My next book, currently in the publishing process, has Great Awakening in the title. Those familiar with Western Christian history know that phrase refers to two periods of spiritual renewal and the spread of Evangelical Christianity in America and England. I believe...
Articles on Culture
AI and the Longing for The Real
I’ve heard the phrase Artificial Intelligence all of my boomer life. Grok says the phrase goes back to 1955 and a proposal some scientists put together to study the concept. This lead to the “Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence” in 1956 which...
The Culture Project and Societal Transformation
I mentioned The Culture Project in a recent post, and I decided I needed to share my thoughts about the importance of Christian cultural transformation in more detail. Not only is Christian influence on society critical for the long term health and flourishing of...
My Health Journey and The Development of Modern Medicine
A couple years back I decided I’d like to write a book about my health journey. Covid was such a radical red pill experience for me, like it was for many others, that it changed completely the way I looked at my health and modern medicine with it. In fact, I started...
Articles on Apologetics
Uninvented and the Unlikely Apostle Paul
I wrote my book Uninvented because as I studied apologetics, the defense of the Christian faith, I consistently came across the argument that the Bible and the stories contained therein could not have been made up, were not mere human fiction as critics have insisted...
Tim Allen, the Hollowness of Philosophy, and the Consideration of the Alternative
The great comedian Tim Allen, Buzz Lightyear himself, sat down with fellow comedian Bill Maher for a long conversation about their careers, and at one point discussed the credibility of Christianity. Maher’s at best an agnostic, but Allen clearly believes in God, and...
“The Universe” and the Demise of Secularism
One of the many evidences secularism is dying is a phrase you’ll hear in popular culture, most often in TV shows and movies: “The Universe.” As in, “The Universe” is telling me something, or telling me not to do this or that. It’s funny how an impersonal material...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Conservatism, the Protestant Dilemma, and the Theocratic Element
This post was inspired by what was for me an eye opening piece at American Reformer by Timon Cline titled, “Can Protestants be Conservative?” I’ll explain what he means and lay out some of his arguments below, but this piece is really about setting up why Cline’s...
Epistemology and the Fall: The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Knowledge is better than ignorance, knowing than not knowing, as you can appreciate when you see the pilot enter the cockpit on a flight you’re about to take. Or when you see the surgeon and medical professionals wheel a loved one into an operating room. Or let’s say...
The Difference Between Being a Parent and a Grandparent
I’ve thought about this a lot since we became grandparents over four years ago. As our kids were growing up and entering adulthood, I encountered people who had become grandparents tell us what’s great about being a grandparent is that you can enjoy your grandkids and...