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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,...
The Wide and Narrow Road Reconsidered
If you’re not active on Twitter, you likely won’t know about the big blow up about Kirk Cameron that happened some weeks back. On his podcast he was having a conversation with his son about the topic of Hell. They questioned the concept of Eternal Conscious Torment...
The Dominion Mandate for Today
For most of my Christian life the Dominion Mandate was not something I gave any serious thought to. For me what counted was what some call the Cultural Mandate. From early in my Christian life, I always thought we should bring our Christian worldview and thinking to...
Articles on Theology
The Importance of Both the Inner and Outer Body for the Christian
Since I got active on Twitter in early 2024, I often come across comments like this as people debate spirituality and physical fitness: From by what I can gathered and have observed by those who predominantly post about masculinity, not all but some, focus more on...
To a Thousand Generations: The Triumph of the Covenant
I was born and raised a Catholic which was my religious life until I went away to college at 18 and was born-again into an Evangelical and Protestant faith bearing little resemblance to Catholicism. The primary reason I embraced this new version of Christianity was...
Evangelicals and Their Ambivalence to God’s Law
I’m currently reading Greg Bahsen’s Theonomy in Christian Ethics, an extensive study about God’s law (theos-nomos) as it applies to ethics, the study of the principles of right and wrong conduct. We Evangelicals tend to have a love/hate relationship to God’s law. On...
Articles on Explanatory Power
What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Those words from James chapter 4 are a sobering reminder of a fact of existence we all too easily ignore. Yet most people live as if this life was eternal life, as if death will not eventually find them. Everything they focus on is this life as if the next life isn't...
How Do You See God In Everything? See God In Everything!
Well, that wasn't so hard now, was it. This thought came to me as I was reading an article yesterday about "How the body builds a healthy relationship with 'good' gut bacteria." There is only one explanation, only one, for the preposterous complexity of the human...
Was Feuerbach Right: Is Religion Merely a Human Projection? Yes and No
If you're not familiar with Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872), he was a significantly influential atheist philosopher, primarily because he influenced two of the great malevolent thinkers of the modern age, Marx and Freud. The misery left in the wake of their influence on...
Articles on Culture
Strunk and White: God Revealed in Words
It’s amazing how easy it is for us to not see God in everything. The reason is because secularization has squeezed the divine out of life. Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor describes our secular age as disenchanted, or the loss of the transcendent, what is over and...
Matthew Perry: What Does it Profit a Man . . . .
The recent death and sad life of megastar Matthew Perry at 54 is a tale many of us can learn from. Unfortunately, most will learn the wrong lessons. Some will conclude that fame and wealth are bad things in and of themselves. They are not. They can be a huge blessing...
Let Me Guess. The Lewiston Shooter was Not a Churchgoing Follower of Jesus?
On Thursday morning, October 26, when I went to my first stop to get a brief overview of the news, Gateway Pundit, I saw that some wicked man had shot and killed 18 people, and injured at least another 50 or 60 more. My first thought was, why in the world didn’t...
Articles on Apologetics
Take Two on My Encounter with The Rationalist: Evidence
In a previous post I discussed my two-and-a-half-hour grilling at the hand of a quintessential rationalist. One thing especially stood out to me was how The Rationalist used evidence as a weapon against me by discounting anything that I claimed was evidence. Only what...
My Interesting Encounter with The Rationalist
I say The Rationalist not because there is one such person in the world, but because the person I encountered is the quintessential rationalist. There is a lot I want to unpack here and get off my chest so this may take several posts; we’ll see. Before I get to what a...
Why I Am Not a Presuppositionalist, Evidentialist, or Classical Apologist
I am not a presuppositionalist. I don’t believe there is only one correct apologetics methodology as the presuppositionalists claim: I’m in the whatever works camp. For those not familiar with such methodologies, these are ways of going about defending the truth...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Education and the Myth of Neutrality
I use the phrase, “the myth of neutrality” here from time to time when addressing issues related to culture and politics. It also very much has to do with how we educate our children in America. This myth is the fruit of the secularism bequeathed to us by the...
Wisdom on Marriage from Luther and Mangalwadi
Having officially been married to my wife Sarah for 36 years on August 15, I think I know a thing or two about the institution, and when I read the thoughts on marriage by these two men of God they instantly become fodder for a blog post. It so happens when I went to...
Three Cheers for Patriarchy! And “Why Sally Can’t Preach”
Since my last post was on the hot topic of Christian nationalism, I figured I’d follow it up with something about another "controversial" topic, patriarchy. I love thinking about the heads exploding at that title! It’s like throwing holy water on a vampire to some...