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What and Why Boomers: The Generation Everyone Loves to Hate
I was listening to Tucker Carlson interview Tim Dillon, a comedian I’d never heard of. He’s a funny guy, not surprising, but when he and Tucker went on a twelve-and-a-half-minute rant completely trashing boomers it was hilarious. I shared it on Twitter, and someone...
The Secular Eschatology of Doom
For much of my Christian life I didn’t think eschatology mattered. That word comes from the Greek eschatos, which means last or farthest, so it means the study (ology) of last things. Since the Late Great Planet Earth 1970s, Christians have come to think of it as the...
Why Christianity Isn’t Moralism
I was born-again as an 18 year old college student into a kind of fundamentalist Christianity. In the late 70s there were two types of conservative Bible believing Christians, fundamentalists and Evangelicals. The former grew out of the fundamentalist-modernist...
Articles on Theology
Final Thought Experiment: The Revelation of God in Christ
God has revealed himself to us in creation, Scripture, and Christ. My first thought experiment post was on creation, and my second on Scripture. Now we come to the ultimate thought experiment, Jesus Christ, the Jesus who was from Nazareth who claimed to be Israel's...
Another Thought Experiment: Seeing Revelation in Scripture
In a previous post I mentioned that most mornings as I pray I thank God for his revelation in creation, Scripture, and Christ. I suggested a thought experiment that encourages us to see God's invisible qualities as we encounter creation every day, his eternal power...
Do You Want To See the Invisible God? Try This Thought Experiment
Most mornings when I pray I find myself thanking God for revealing himself in creation, Scripture, and Christ. I think how futile existence is without God's revealing himself to us. Without that revelation, the human race is like a blind man in a dark box groping...
Articles on Explanatory Power
The Picture of Dorian Gray – The Human Dilemma Without Christ
I recently finished The Picture of Dorian Gray by the famous 19th century provocateur Oscar Wilde. The book was itself a profound picture of a lost soul trying to come to terms with life devoid of a true north with which to make sense of it all. I read it with special...
“Conspiracy” and the Longing for Justice
In the soon to be blockbuster best-seller, The Persuasive Christian Parent, I tell the story of "the clicker." Yes, that clicker, more commonly known as the remote control. As you'll read in the book, the clicker is a great tool for engaging popular culture with our...
Science: We’ll Never Know For Sure How Everything Began
According to the current secularist worldview the only sure epistemological foundation (basis for knowing) is science. At some point in the last hundred or so years through popular culture, education, and media, science replaced religion in the modern imagination as...
Articles on Culture
An Introduction to Classical Education from my Favorite Daughter
You already know I only have one daughter, but she's still my favorite! She's a champion for classical education, and a lower school academic dean at a charter classical school. She wrote an e-mail to parents recently, and I thought is was an excellent introduction to...
Jim Elliot: “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
Most Americans have never heard of Jim Elliot, the young man who died as a missionary in the jungles of Ecuador on January 8, 1956. Many Evangelical Christians have, and as something of a hero for his sacrifice to take the faith to the Indians in the jungles of...
Chick-fil-A Again: It’s Even Worse Than I Thought How Worse it Could Be
I came across an article today FrontPageMAG that revealed Chick-fil-A's cave to leftist bullies is much worse than I wrote about in my last post. The title and subtitle of the FrontPage piece says it all: "Chick-fil-A Put an Obama and Hillary Supporter in Charge, but...
Articles on Apologetics
Christianity, The Greatest Force for Good Ever, is Exploding All Over the World
It's a common theme in secular Western media that Christianity is all but on its last legs, that "nones" are the future, and that religious faith is an exhausted remnant of a benighted, pre-scientific past. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even in the secular...
Rock n Roll: “They Don’t Get That It Points Beyond Itself!”
Raising children, even for my wife and I in the late stages in which we find ourselves with the youngest of our three at 17, offers a plethora (love that word) of opportunities to bring the reality of God into their lives. Christian parents in a secular culture...
Would David Hume Come to the Same Conclusions Today?
I've been slowly reading through Frederick Copleston's A History of Philosophy, and having recently finished the section on the great Scottish skeptic David Hume, I got to wondering if Hume might come to the same conclusions today. An impossible question to answer, no...
Articles on Parenting and Family
There’s Nothing “Wrong”: It’s Called Life! Or The Curse and the Christian Life
Do you have a bad attitude? Do your kids have bad attitudes? If you and/or they do, I know why: wrong or faulty expectations. It's probably hard to overestimate how many people suffer from a bad attitude (sometimes it's called depression or anxiety or frustration or...
The Growth of the “Nones” Is No Threat to Our Kids Faith
The title of a recent piece at Scientific American tells us the "Nones" juggernaut continues: College Freshmen Are Less Religious Than Ever: Data from a nationwide survey shows students who list their affiliation as "none" has skyrocketed "Nones" are people who when...
Hey, Bill Nye, Fake Science Guy, There Are No “Extra Kids”
Who is this Bill Nye guy anyway? I only became aware of him recently, but it seems he's a popular "science educator." He got his moniker, "Bill Nye the Science Guy" from a PBS children's science show in the 90s, and we know that anything that has the word "science"...