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A Conflict of Visions-Reality as It Is or Transform It
One of the greatest public intellectuals of the 20th and 21st centuries, Thomas Sowell, a black man and conservative, wrote a book in in 1987 called A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles. I point out his race only to indicate that black...
Numbers 13-14: Exploring Canaan and the Case for Christian Optimism
God communicates his redemptive story through a real people in history as a living metaphor for realities he would bring to pass in due course, a very long course. As I say, God is never in a hurry, and this took 2,000 years from its announcement in the calling of...
God’s Promise in Habakkuk to Fill the Earth with the Knowledge of his Glory
I recently read The Puritan Hope by Ian H. Murray, and we can sure use a lot more Puritan hope in the church today. In it he describes how the Puritans of the 16th through the 18th centuries had a passion for seeing the Great Commission fulfilled in due course because...
Articles on Theology
The implications of origins part 3 – Lucky Dirt Turns Out to be Not So Lucky After All
In my previous two posts (one and two) I argued that how we understand our origins, where we come from and why we are here, have implications for life that are all encompassing. If we, as Scripture declares, are creatures made in God's image in God's world, then we...
The implications of origins part 2 – Telos in a Baby’s Ear
In my previous post I argued that how we see our origins, where we and this universe comes from, have significant implications for how we see reality and live life, all-encompassing implications, both positive and negative. The reason this is important for keeping our...
The Implications of Origins Part 1: Wealth Lies in the Human Mind Made in God’s Image
In the beginning God created . . . We know this famous passage from Genesis 1, the first words of our Bible. What we often fail to appreciate, unfortunately, is how profound these words are in their implications for all of human existence. How human beings understand...
Articles on Explanatory Power
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Articles on Culture
Christians Are Coming Out of the Cultural Closet
With hit "faith-based" movies like War Room and Captive, there was much discussion about Christians and film making. Interestingly enough, some of the harshest critics of these movies are from Christians themselves who seem embarrassed by what I call the cheese factor...
Maybe Bowie is Looking Down from Heaven
Since Father Time took the great David Bowie, I have read numerous speculations about what might have been the state of his soul. Bowie, the consummate showman and actor, was a very private man, refreshing in the age of instant everything. So there isn't a lot to go...
Revisiting ‘Faithful Presence’: ‘To Change the World,’ Five Years Later
I read James Davison Hunter's "To Change The World" several years ago and thought it was a brilliant analysis of the power of cultural institutions to shape the culture. His strategy for cultural engagement, though, left me puzzled at the time. He called it "faithful...
Articles on Apologetics
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