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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
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...
Mere Christianity: Moses and the Bronze Snake in the Desert
This story we find in Numbers 21 is one the strangest in the Bible, and one the skeptics love. It’s absurd and clearly made up because looking at a bronze snake on a pole can’t heal anybody, obviously. You know, science and all that. But God isn’t limited to what...
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...
Articles on Explanatory Power
God Has Made It Possible to be an Intellectually Fulfilled Christian
The subject of this post might sound slightly familiar. It comes from a statement on the other side of the metaphysical divide from world-famous atheist Richard Dawkins who said that, "Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist." What Darwin...
Dawkins Is Knocked “Sideways with Wonder” by Cell’s Design
If you're not familiar with the name Dawkins, that would be the world's most famous atheist, Richard Dawkins. He along with several others earlier in the century were Christened (pun intended) by the media as the New Atheists. There was nothing new about them, just...
My International Breakthrough for The Persuasive Christian Parent!
If you haven't had a chance to read my book yet, shame on you, it's officially become an international best-seller. I recently sat down, virtually, with a new Canadian friend of mine, Ian McKerracher for a chat about the book on the Faith Beyond Belief Podcast....
Articles on Culture
Evil and the Death of Secularism
In a comment on Facebook recently I said, “Secularism is dead,” and I got this not unreasonable response: Not sure why secularism is dead, but post-modern thinking and critical theory are alive and well. Looked at as a snapshot of the current historical moment, of...
Plausibility Structures and the Importance of Jordan Peterson
Since I became active on Twitter earlier this year, mainly to promote my new book and work, I’ve noticed that Christians can be narrow minded and dogmatic. And lest you think I’m bagging on my fellow Christians, these less than appealing traits come naturally to...
Secularism and Pietism: Two Sides of the Same Coin
As I’ve been thinking and reading about Christ’s reign being extended throughout the world and God’s kingdom advancing, I’ve realized that secularism and Pietism are two sides of the same coin. That might seem strange given the former is completely anti-religion and...
Articles on Apologetics
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...
Jim Caviezel to Jordan Peterson: “This is the Best Interview I’ve Ever Had in my Life . . . .”
I imagine as a famous actor Jim Caviezel has had a few interviews in his life, so when I saw that headline I simply couldn’t pass it up. By now you’re probably familiar with the blockbuster hit movie, Sound of Freedom, which has become a hit despite “Hollywood” doing...
Uninvented: Jonah Had to be Real, Big Fish and All
If there is one book in the Bible that really gives the doubting Thomas’s among us fits it’s Jonah, the reluctant prophet. It wouldn’t be so hard to swallow, pun intended, if it wasn’t for putting that silly big fish in the story, but more of that below. As for the...
Articles on Parenting and Family
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,...
What Distinguishes Amillennialism from Postmillennialism?
While I very much appreciate my optimistic amillennialist brethren, or what I call practical postmillennialists, it’s important to understand that being optimistic, or not, is not what separates these two eschatological perspectives. It’s more than merely seeing the...
Marriage and the Great American Baby Shortage
The decline of Christianity with the rise of secularism in America has had disastrous consequences. At the center of this sad state of affairs is the decline of the family from which all civilizational and human flourishing emerges, as I wrote about recently. Sadly,...