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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....
A Christian Worldview Is Not Enough
Since I was twenty years old when I came across Francis Schaeffer’s The God Who is There, I’ve been a worldview guy. I went from a fundamentalist type of Christianity focused on the personal, on my relationship with Jesus, the Bible and me, to seeing how Christianity...
The Problem with Biblicism
If you’ve never heard the word biblicism, you would never know how prevalent it is in Evangelical Christianity, as in practically ubiquitous. Before I define it in detail and explain why it’s a problem, briefly it means in order to justify doing something or not,...
Articles on Theology
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...
Psalm 115 – What Will it Be? Trust or Fear, Anxiety, and Worry
In my previous post I related how a sermon by our pastor on Psalm 115 inspired me to write about God verses idols.
Articles on Explanatory Power
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...
Notable Quotations – Explanatory Power
In an inversion of the ancient dictum, we might say: “As below, so above.” What we experience of space “out there” will reflect our inner spiritual state. Perhaps this is why, as glorious as the modern discoveries of the heavens are, they often leave us cold. This is...
The Human Circulatory System – There is a God!
I recently finished reading a book called The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution by James Hannam. The title appealed to me when I first heard of the book because of a fiction that has been promulgated since the...
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
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