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God’s Amazing Goodness and My Apologetics315 Interview
I had an interview recently about my book with a website that has special meaning in my Christian journey, Apologetics315. God, as he often does with his children, made this uniquely special for me as I'll explain. When I became a Christian at Arizona State...
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty and The Desire for God
This is blog post number two (here is #1) from the book Cultural Apologetics by Paul Gould. This sentence caused me to sit up and wonder: The first step toward reenchantment is to reawaken within ourselves and others the deeper desires of the heart for truth,...
Does God Want Us to Be Happy?
I'm currently reading a book that gave me ideas for two blog posts on two successive pages, which means the author gave me some pretty amazing insights. Before I get to my thoughts . . . For those who know me they will be aware of my annoying habit of always telling...
Articles on Theology
The Ministry of Right Relationship: Love in Action
The older I get, the more I realize why Jesus said that the law and the prophets can all be summed up in . . . . love. The problem with love, "twue wove," is that it's hard, as in really difficult. That's because love means a certain dying to self, and we fallen,...
Sure Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about.
Every year our family watches A Charlie Brown Christmas. The show premiered on December 9, 1965, and the most powerful scene almost didn't make it on air. The CBS honchos were afraid a biblical declaration of the gospel coming from Linus would offend too many people....
Jesus May Be the Most Divisive Person in History
The pastor of the church we attend recently said these words, and because I've been slowly reading and writing through the gospels, I found them spot on. It's amazing to me, but not surprising, that Jesus is the most misunderstood person in history. Amazing because...
Articles on Explanatory Power
The Complexity and Fine Tuning of the Universe: Atheism is Literally Impossible!
I often visit the Evolution News website because as a Christian the most obvious thing in the world to me is that the universe and everything in it had a Creator and cannot be a product of random chance. (The site is a great repository of information from the...
Watch Out for that Time Grapevine: “If this is all there is, why bother?”
On April 8, 2010 prior to heading to bed I went to check e-mail. It was around 11:00 p.m., and I saw a message from my uncle that I had trouble processing: my cousin, Anthony, whom I affectionately called Ants, had died in a motorcycle accident that day, all of 45...
This Is Why The Multiverse Must Exist: An Exercise in Pretzel Logic
If you've ever heard the term "pretzel logic" (not the Steely Dan album), you'll get the oxymoronic logic: logic shouldn't look like a pretzel! Those who believe in a God-less universe increasingly have to turn themselves into pretzels to try to explain a universe...
Articles on Culture
Secularism and Mass Shootings
I've been on a bit of a secularism kick of late, and as you may know I'm not a fan. I thought of secularism, and its discontents, as I heard of the latest American mass shooting in our new home state of Florida. Seventeen people killed in the prime of life, not by a...
Secularism and the Berlin Wall, Part 4 – Secularism Unmasked
In my previous post I dealt with why secularism might be appealing in our modern context. I argued that it's not anything inherent in secularism that makes it more appealing than Christianity, but the cultural messaging machine that promotes it. That's why it's a...
Secularism and the Berlin Wall, Part 3 – The Appeal of Secularism
I ended my last post claiming that secularism is no less a paper tiger than the Berlin Wall. That's quite an assertion in the face of a secular cultural hegemony that seems to approach absolute. Everywhere we look, people who claim the name of Christ are on the...
Articles on Apologetics
Do Your Children a Favor: Watch “Brad’s Status” with Them
I'd never heard of this movie with Ben Stiller until a few days ago, and when I read the premise and learned it was on Amazon Prime I figured we'd give it a go. Brad's Status is about a 50-something middle class man watching his only son explore college, Harvard no...
Secularism: To Believe Otherwise
That we live in a secular age there can be no doubt. I've attacked secularism as a paper tiger (actually, Berlin Wall) in a number of posts, which is why I looked forward to reading James K.A. Smith's How (Not) To be Secular. (It's a book about a book, Charles...
Did a Dead Guy Really Come Back to Life 2000 Years Ago?
The whole of Christianity and it's validity rests on one simple historical event that we celebrate this Easter weekend, that Jesus of Nazareth was killed and came back to life. As I immersed myself back into apologetics over that last eight or so years, I've learned...
Articles on Parenting and Family
Notable Quotation
We are relearning that marriage is not optional. The evidence started piling up in 1965 with Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report on the breakdown of the African-American family. In 2012, Charles Murray took us on a walk through Fishtown where we met a white (often...