"One man looks at a dying bird and thinks there's nothing but unanswered pain. That death's got the final word, it's laughing at him. Another man sees that same...
"Above all, I am anxious to grant no credence whatsoever to the special mythology of 'the Enlightenment.' Nothing strikes me as more tiresomely vapid than the ...
Last night, Stephen Fry won the Harvard Secular Society's Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism. The audience packed the pews of Memorial ...
*I'll be out of town for a few weeks, but in the meantime I thought it might be helpful to share this brief essay I wrote a few years ago on "theological method...
I was perusing the New York Times this week and came upon a pretty interesting op-ed by Stanley Fish. It’s titled, “Does Rationality Know What’s It’s Missing?” ...
After my treatise on reason, there are still some lingering questions: if reason is all that it's cracked up to be, why do so many people disagree? Why do peopl...
Now that we've looked at the external benefits of being reasonable, we must explore why it is important internally for one's spiritual development. For this, I'...
In my last post, I promised that I would be discussing why what I've said so far matters. After all, the Bible never uses the phrases "disconfirmation bias" or ...
In my last post, I discussed disconfirmation bias and how it leads to intellectual dishonesty and cognitive dissonance for Christians who do not truly engage cr...
One of my favorite passages from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity is his first chapter on Faith, which has gotten me through many of my doubting periods. One of my...
