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The End of Christendom: Its Demise and Rebirth
I was inspired to write this piece by a little book I’m re-reading by Malcolm Muggeridge. He gave a talk about the end of Christendom in 1978, the year of my new birth, for the inaugural address of the Pascal Lectures at the University of Waterloo. I just did a quick...
The “Nazi” Label as a Rhetorical Kill Switch and Cultural Marxism
The first part of this title came from a post I saw on Twitter by Joel Webbon, a pastor from Texas and leader on the dissident right, or New Christian Right, or whatever one calls that these days. Sadly, he was referring to other people on the right who use this “kill...
The Primary Importance of the Ascension: Why Do Evangelicals Ignore It?
That’s a good question. I was reminded of it when I was in Jacksonville, Florida, for my father-in-law’s 90th birthday. He goes to a Lutheran church, and we decided to go with him that Sunday. It so happened that was Ascension Sunday, June 1. What is Ascension Sunday,...
Articles on Theology
Uninvented: Job and the Nature of God
Reading through the book of Job, I’ve been trying to think through it from an uninvented perspective. I’ve realized it would be difficult to see it as merely a figment of human imagination, as if some ancient screenwriter was preparing a script on suffering for a...
Calvinism and the Inevitable Non Sequitur
I would wager that almost everyone coming across this lonely old blog post out on my very tiny corner of the windswept desolation of the Internet has some idea of what Calvinism is. Whether they are right or not is the topic I seek to address. Of course, being right...
How Donald Trump Turned Me into a Postmillennialist!
The very last thing I expected when Donald Trump came down the escalator to announce his run for the presidency on June 16, 2015, was the red pill I unknowingly swallowed that would eventually lead me to embracing postmillennialism. In case you don’t know what...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Philip Johnson Unmasked Darwinism: RIP
Phillip E. Johnson, a Berkeley law professor whose book Darwin On Trial launched the Intelligent Design movement, died last weekend at 79. I remember reading it back in the early 90s when it came out, and being thrilled that someone was so effectively exposing that...
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands!
In my last post I wrote about the concept of Explanatory Power, specifically in the context of life's meaning, or not. The concept of what most powerfully, compellingly, explains the reality we experience extends to the heavens and the skies. You may be familiar with...
Shakespeare and Richard Dawkins: Is It All Pitiless Indifference Signifying Nothing?
The great English playwright William Shakespeare expressed his inner Richard Dawkins, born almost 400 years later, when he wrote these almost immortal words coming from the mouth of murderous King MacBeth: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty...
Articles on Culture
Jordan Peterson’s Daughter Converts to Christianity
I was pleasantly surprised yesterday when I learned Jordan Peterson’s daughter, Mikhaila, had recently become a Christian.
Netflix’s Midnight Mass a Secular Hit Job on Christianity
If you’re not familiar with it, Midnight Mass is a new Netflix series about a very strange little island with only one lone old Catholic church that eventually dominants everything on the Island, and in very unexpected ways.
The Last Kingdom and How I Was Programmed by Modern Medicine
You might be familiar with the Netflix series, The Last Kingdom, and if so you might think it a very strange thing that it would have anything to do with my mind being programmed by modern medicine. I realized, looking back, how easily I, and by extension all of us,...
Articles on Apologetics
The Stupefying Coherence, Content, and Power of the Bible: God is the Only Explanation!
In a previous post I argued that God is the only explanation for the stupefying complexity, functionality, and beauty of creation, the first and most obvious of God's revelations of himself to mankind. In this post I will argue that the Bible is way too mind blowing...
Take 2! The New and Improved Version of The Persuasive Christian Parent is Here!
As you may know, because of improved technology anyone can publish a book today. Writers are no longer dependent on all powerful book publishers to to get their books in print, or face limited shelf space to get it purchased. Publishing is a tough business, so...
Evidence for the Veracity of Christianity: Gospel Inspired Love
In my previous post I argued that the transformed life of converted sinners is a profound defense of the truth of the Christian faith. We can't see God, like the wind, but the evidence of his reality, like the wind, can be seen in the effects of his Spirit in the...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Creation and the Justified Confidence we can Build In our Children an Enduring Faith
My youngest, our 17 year-old son, came to me the other day and said I had to watch the beginning of this short video: The mechanism that allows human beings to hear is insanely complex. Either we are incredibly lucky, or that mechanism was created by an all powerful,...
40 Days for Life: Don’t Eat the Babies, Save the Babies!!!
In case you are not aware where "Eat the babies" came from, watch this priceless satire of the leftists' absurd obsession with "climate change": The woman was a plant at an AOC townhall, and she appears distraught at the "three months" we have before "climate change"...
Another Way to Look at The Bullies In Our Lives
Nobody likes a bully. I had my fair share growing up, and would much prefer life without them. The problem is that there can be no life without bullies because we live in a fallen world in a fallen body among fallen, sinful people. On this side of eternity, there will...