Christianity differs from non-religious philosophies not only in what it says about God, but also in what it says about mankind. According to (most) Christian...
People have all sorts of objections to Christianity and to the Bible, ranging from the very reasonable to the not-so-reasonable. Some are philosophical, some ...
Atheism's just simpler, isn't it? No spirits, no souls, no angels, no miracles, no God: just Dawkins' "blind physical forces" operating the same way on everyt...
Why does Jesus tell us that we must become like little children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 18:3)? I've heard several different theories. It's the...
In his final prayer before his arrest, Jesus prayed for all believers - "that all of them may be one, Father, just as You are in me and I am in You" (John 17:...
This summer, I thought a lot about the problem of foreknowledge and free will. If God knows what we're going to do beforehand - as certainly seems to be the...
"ejection of the supernatural should not be a part of scientific methodology.... cientists should be free to pursue hypotheses as they see fit, without bein...
(Update: My friend CDK has reminded me that C.S. Lewis wrote an essay some time ago that discusses many of the points I seek to address here.)
A couple years a...
Imperfection everywhere.
God's creation is very good - but not perfect. Our bodies age and rot; our homes and belongings perish. Moth and rust destroy; t...
Eight years ago today, nineteen men perpetrated the deadliest terrorist attack in American history. The 9/11 attacks scarred our collective psyche permanently; ...
