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The Growth of Pietism and Secularism’s Inevitable Dominance
Pietism and secularism lead to the same thing: a secular society devoid of Christian influence. As I’ve argued here previously, Pietism and secularism are two sides of the same coin; one requires the other, and each contributes to the other. This is an odd notion for...
This is Us, Alzheimer’s and the Programming of Modern Medicine
My wife and I recently watched a TV series called This is Us, and one of the main characters came down with Alzheimer's. Given I’ve had a health epiphany because of Covid, I now see portrayals of disease like this differently than I used to. This Is Us was a series...
Trump, A Great Awakening, and the Refounding of America
If you’re not one of my multitude of fans, all three of them, you won’t know this is the subtitle of the book I published last year, Going Back to Find the Way Forward. As we see things unfolding in Trump’s second term, I’m thinking I might be some sort of prophet....
Articles on Theology
A Porn Star and the Awesome Power of the Gospel
I've been a Christian for more than 42 years, and I am more blown away by the grace, mercy, and love of God in Christ than I have ever been. It continually astounds me how God in Christ can take lives wrecked by sin and guilt and shame, and turn them into something...
The Doctrine of the Incomprehensibility of God: Live It, Learn It, Love It!
It should be obvious that God is by definition incomprehensible, yet human beings, you and me included, somehow think we can comprehend him. This happens in subtle and not so subtle ways, but the pretension is the same. Somehow we think that our finite brains are...
When Death Comes Knocking, Our Hope: I Am The Resurrection and the Life
Death is, so to speak, a favorite topic of mine, and I’ve written about it here many times. I say “favorite” tongue in cheek, of course, because death is the topic we mortals most want to avoid talking about, let alone experience, whether that’s our own, or the death of those we love.
Articles on Explanatory Power
There is a God! Is There a Better Explanation for the Complexity of Tendons?
A popular narrative in secular Western culture goes like this. There was a time called The Dark Ages when religion reigned in Western civilization, and all people were benighted, miserable, and poor. Then came a Renaissance when ancient literature and languages were...
Secularism and the Berlin Wall, Part 5 – The Power of Explanatory Power
As I've argued in these posts, secularism as the fundamental worldview (religion) of Western cultural elites is as weak as the Berlin Wall proved to be. For the time being it appears as durable as the Wall circa 1970s, but as I contend, it's every bit the paper tiger...
Secularism and the Berlin Wall, Part 4 – Secularism Unmasked
In my previous post I dealt with why secularism might be appealing in our modern context. I argued that it's not anything inherent in secularism that makes it more appealing than Christianity, but the cultural messaging machine that promotes it. That's why it's a...
Articles on Culture
Chick-fil-A to Christians: You ARE Bigots!
By now you've surely heard that the Chick-fil-A Foundation, the arm of the chicken giant ($10.5 billion in revenue and growing fast) that gives money to various causes, has changed its giving mission. Part of the announcement included the news that they will no longer...
“This Beautiful Fantastic”: Beware Secular Indoctrination
Secularism is the religion of the 21st century West, and all the most powerful messaging cultural machinery indoctrinates us into its view of reality. At the top of that list has to be our entertainment mediums, especially movies and television. Stories on screens are...
My Take on Kanye: A Profound Cultural Moment
Most people are familiar with the name of Kanye West, even if they think it an infamous one. After all, he's married to a Kardashian, and with that comes a cultural ubiquity of not the best sort, at least from a Christian perspective. Plus I've always thought of him...
Articles on Apologetics
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: Can We Trust the Gospels?
I'm listening to a wonderful series of lectures by pastor of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, California, Kim Riddlebarger called "Apologetics in a Post-Christian Age." He argues, persuasively, that the central fact of the apologetics enterprise is the resurrection....
You Can Use The Ontological Argument With Your Kids. . . . No Really
A favorite tactic of skeptics to justify their rejection of God is to take some example of what God has ostensibly done or does, and assert that if there was a God he certainly wouldn't have done it this way or that. The silliest direct example of this in my life...
Apologetics315 – An Invaluable Website for Defenders of the Faith
If you've ever heard, read, or interacted with an atheist you'll be familiar with one of their most absurd tropes: there is no evidence for the veracity of Christianity. Thus they define "faith" as a religious term that means believing without evidence, or in spite of...
Articles on Parenting and Family
The Importance of the Family Mirrored in the Trinity
Since the Enlightenment and the drive by Western cultural elites to make secularism the default plausibility structure of reality, the family has been under attack. It may not have appeared this way to the average mom and dad in the street until the 1960s, but many...
God and the Evidence Agree: Good Old Nuclear Family Still Best
Unless you are wedded, no pun intended, to a left-wing ideological agenda you know intuitively that the traditional family of a married mother and father with children works best for the children. This is simply indisputable, and we can add more recently released...
Musician Sir the Baptist: I’m Anti-Religion, Not Anti-God
There is much talk in American culture about young Christians going off to college or into life and abandoning their faith. I'm sure there are many reasons why this is so, but I think one consistent reason is that teenagers see their parents and people in church live...