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A Response to The Misunderstanding of My Critics, Part 1
I've given an overview of the misunderstanding, so I wont' repeat it. I've taken what I think are the main points of disagreement by one critic who does a great job of distilling concerns some Christians have with what they think I'm arguing in the book: As parents...
Persuasive Christian Parenting: A Q&A with Mike D’Virgilio
When we lived in Illinois we had gone to a church for a number of years that was large and typically Evangelical, but not Reformed. That was frustrating for me, a couple years before we left for Florida I started looking for a church that preached the doctrines of...
The Gospel: The Only Thing That Makes Sense of Anything-Part 2
In my last post I discussed the explanatory power of Christianity, why it better explains reality as we experience it than any other religion or worldview. I wasn't able to address why it isn't only Christianity as a worldview that makes sense of everything, but...
Articles on Theology
Keith Green And Reflections on Our Love for God
Every Evangelical or "born-again" Christian of the boomer generation knows of Keith Green, a fervent evangelist (some would say almost prophet) musician who died way too young. When I was in college in the late 70s and early 80s, Keith Green's music was a large part...
Did A Crucified Man Named Jesus of Nazareth Really Bodily Rise From the Grave 2000 Years Ago?
It is a glorious thing that on this day all around the world billions of Christians celebrate the bodily resurrection of their Savior. Those who don't, think that those of us who do are deluded. Maybe we are, but the vast majority of those who reject the bodily...
The Historical Apathy of the Modern Evangelical: The Case of Baptism
Modern Evangelicalism is a hybrid of Christian traditions that came out of the Reformation. When I became a Christian in college I had no idea this was the case because I was taught that Christianity, the real kind, was just me and the Bible. My relationship with...
Articles on Explanatory Power
Why Death????
In my last post on the nature of plausibility structures, I used a movie with death as a central character to show how subtle messaging in movies leads to making God seem more or less real to people, thus more or less plausible. As I said, death never caused one of...
Notable Quotation
In her fiction, O’Connor deliberately tried to alter her readers’ perception, to get them to notice what she called the “distortions” of modern life and to look at the created world closely enough that they might perceive in its depths proof of a creator. For secular...
Famous Christian’s Son Rejects His Father’s Liberal Faith
Liberal Christianity (J. Gresham Machen's Christianity & Liberalism is an excellent study on the differences between liberal and conservative Christianity) got it's start in America in the late 1800/early 1900s. It started with the 17th Century Enlightenment that...
Articles on Culture
Gay Marriage Supporters: Any Regrets Yet?
David Harsanyi at The Federalist is one such conservative supporter who is having second thoughts. In "Was I Wrong To Support Gay Marriage?" he articulates what should have been obvious to everyone from pretty much the beginning of the push to redefine marriage: I’ve...
Notable Quotation
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to recognize that our entire culture is in trouble. We are staring down the barrel of a loaded gun, and we can no longer afford to act like it's loaded with blanks. The guidance counselor at a public high school near my home...
Credit Pop Culture for Gay Marriage
The title of a piece in the LA Times after the gay marriage ruling: "Years before court ruling, pop culture shaped same-sex marriage debate." Ya think!" In fact, film and television have made homosexuality almost ubiquitous, to the point where many Americans think...
Articles on Apologetics
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