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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
A Dangerous Question: “I Asked the Lord That I Might Grow” by John Newton
One of the most important things to teach your children, and to remind them and yourself daily, is that life is hard. The root of anger, and bitterness, and frustration, and just an overall bad attitude, is to expect it not be hard, as if the difficulties in life are...
A COVID-19 Object Lesson: “You Will Be Like God …”
As distressing as this over-hyped COVID-19 pandemic has been (a real threat to only a very definable fraction of 1% of the population), there have been some silver linings.
Psalm 1 – Living Lives of Counterfeit Blessing
Our pastor last Sunday preached on one of the most profound Psalms in the Psalter, the first one, that which serves as the gateway to all the rest. Psalm 1 starts with the words, "Blessed is the man who . . . " The writer starts with the negative, that this blessed...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Dunkirk and the Wages of Sin
When we came out of the movie theater having just watched the very intense and entertaining hit movie Dunkirk, all I could think of was the Apostle Paul's phrase in Romans 6:23 that "the wages of sin is death." This phrase about sin's ultimate consequences points back...
Religion and Faith: All Human Beings Partake of Both Regardless of What They Believe
When I read a (long) piece recently titled, "Can We Be Good Without God? On the political meaning of Christianity," I was reminded yet again that ideas have consequences, and that there is no neutral space where ideas inspired by "religion" do not have implications...
Eulogy from a Physicist and the Power of Self-Delusion
My daughter recently went to a funeral for a teenage girl who tragically died from meningitis. Also, tragically from my perspective, her family is part of the Unitarian Universalist faith. As such, they don't believe in a personal God, let alone anything to do with...
Articles on Culture
Another Mass Shooting: “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.”
My first response to hearing of the horrific shooting in El Paso was, where was the good guy with the gun who could have stopped this? This is the world bequeathed to us by a secular culture that has rejected God, that you can't go shopping on a Saturday morning in...
KORN Guitarist’s ‘Loud Krazy Love’ Documentary: Powerful
God saves sinners. That thought keep ringing in my brain as we recently watched a new documentary about the Brian Welch, the lead guitarist of a heavy metal band called Korn. Loud Krazy Love, is not for the faint of heart (or children), or those sensitive to F-bombs....
The Dumbest, and Most Dangerous, Song Ever Written: “John and Yoko: Above Us Only Sky”
Having grown up in the 1960s I became a Beatles fan at a very early age. I'll never forget when my dad took me to the iconic Capitol Records building in LA when I was all of five-years-old, and I purchased my very first Beatles record, Meet the Beatles. Although there...
Articles on Apologetics
Secularism Revisited – The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)
When I finished up my last post on secularism and the Berlin wall, I came across an article at Evolution News & Science Today that takes on an atheist scientist Sean Carroll, who asserts that the universe is a "brute fact," a concept I discussed in that post. If...
Study Shows Atheists Thought Immoral, Even by Fellow Atheists
Atheists are fond of accusing Christians of believing they can't be moral or good just because they are atheists. Christians don't believe this, and atheists can be moral or good, but that doesn't keep them from saying it. Atheists can be as good and moral, or bad and...
DNA Confirms the Bible: Israelites did not wipe out the Canaanites
I recently saw this headline at Real Clear Politics: "DNA Contradicts the Bible on Canaanites." Of course I had to click on it. What I found, no surprise to me, was that DNA did no such thing. For the last 150 plus years, skeptics have declared over and over again...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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...
Polyamory for All!
The gay "marriage" ruling, the gift that keeps on giving. As one headline read: "‘Sister Wives’ family points to same-sex marriage cases in arguing against Utah polygamy ban." Of course they would, and they would be perfectly logical to do so. In fact, the Obergefell...