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AI and the Longing for The Real
I’ve heard the phrase Artificial Intelligence all of my boomer life. Grok says the phrase goes back to 1955 and a proposal some scientists put together to study the concept. This lead to the “Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence” in 1956 which...
The Culture Project and Societal Transformation
I mentioned The Culture Project in a recent post, and I decided I needed to share my thoughts about the importance of Christian cultural transformation in more detail. Not only is Christian influence on society critical for the long term health and flourishing of...
My Health Journey and The Development of Modern Medicine
A couple years back I decided I’d like to write a book about my health journey. Covid was such a radical red pill experience for me, like it was for many others, that it changed completely the way I looked at my health and modern medicine with it. In fact, I started...
Articles on Theology
Back to America’s Providential View of History, the Present, and the Future
Since the Covid debacle what I call the Gutenberg Press of the 21st century, known as the Internet, has proved as transformational as the first Gutenberg Press of the 15th century. The latter was instrumental in allowing the Reformation to sweep like wildfire...
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...
Judgement as God’s Mercy Unto Repentance
A sentiment I came across on Twitter is common among some Christians: God destroyed Sodom for the same sins the world now celebrates. Judgment is coming. My reply: Actually, brother, judgment is already here. We see it in the fallout of the sexual "revolution." This...
Articles on Explanatory 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...
Agnostic Explains His “Taking Leave of Darwin”
If you've ever had any kind of conversation with a hard core Darwinist, especially of the most ignorant kind, you'll have heard the phrase, "Evolution is a fact." This statement is affirmed in the most cocksure way, as if nobody with half a brain would question it. Or...
Nancy Pearcey on the Meaningless of Materialism
I'm reading a wonderful book by Nancy Pearcey called Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, & Meaning. You can tell she was deeply influenced by the great Francis Schaeffer as she weaves the implications of thought through history...
Articles on Culture
The History of Pietism and Christian Cultural Irrelevance
Pietism is the most important development in the history of Christianity most Christians have never heard of. It wasn’t high on my radar either until a few years back when I began to learn about its contribution to the rise of secularism in Western culture. Because of...
Burying Our Dead: Is Cremation Christian?
The inspiration for this post is the cremation question I saw on Twitter by a guy who goes by the handle, Smash Baals. It became quite the lively discussion and a lot of people expressed strong opinions one way or the other. The back and forth had an interesting...
Culture and Making America Christian Again
When I started writing my latest book in early 2022, I knew it would be about the Great Awakening happening all around us, and along the way it also became about the re-founding of America. I didn’t realize until a little later into the journey, specifically after I...
Articles on Apologetics
Uninvented: Reading A Biblical Text Theologically and Apologetically
Given we live in an utterly secular age it is important for the sustenance of our faith that we learn to read biblical texts through apologetic lenses. The inspiration for my book Uninvented came from a growing conviction I developed as I studied apologetics that the...
Uninvented: John the Baptist Beheaded—You Don’t Make That Up!
We read of John’s beheading in Matthew 14:1–12 and Mark 6:14–29. Matthew’s account is more concise, while Mark gives us much more detail, as his consistent with Mark. He covers fewer events in Jesus’ life, but gives more details of those he does address. Christians...
Uninvented: Who Is the Greatest and the Criterion of Embarrassment
One of the most powerful arguments for the veracity of the historical accounts of the Bible is the criterion of embarrassment. The idea is simple: Nobody tells stories to make themselves look bad. Nor do they tell stories making themselves look bad to try to prove...
Articles on Parenting and Family
The Material Implications of the Gospel
Most Christians reading the title of this post might think I’ve mixed things up. Shouldn’t it read, “The Spiritual Implications of the Gospel”? Well, yes, it does if read the right way. The gospel’s spiritual implications have material implications as well because we...
Most Christians Don’t Believe in Postmillennialism, But the Left Does
In January I was listening to Steve Deace opine on the woman in Minnesota who was trying to block ICE agents on a suburban street. At one point it looked like she was trying to run over one of the agents, and he shot her. She died giving her life for the leftist...
That Old Rugged Cross and Our Home Far Away
Recently at a church service the closing hymn was That Old Rugged Cross, for over a hundred years a beloved hymn to conservative Protestants. It had been a long while since I’d sung it, and I noticed the final stanza got the ultimate hope of our faith backwards,...