“There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necess...
This Saturday, February 27th, is the feast day of George Herbert, a poet and an Anglican priest who died in 1633, leaving behind him only one slim volume of poe...
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...
If there is a war between reason and imagination, the first volley was fired by Plato, who famously decreed that poets were to be thrown out of his ideal city. ...
After perusing the latest issue of the Ichthus, I had some reflections on Nick Nowalk's latest feature "On Not Being Narrow-Minded." Nick focuses heavily on the...
Recently I have been reading G.K. Chesterton’s excellent biography of St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Thomas’s chief task in life was to theologically battle the variou...
Recently, I've been reading through an excellent collection of country sermons by Fred B. Craddock called The Cherry Log Sermons.
The first sermon in the colle...
Before becoming a Christian, I was a big fan of Ayn Rand. Her novels touched my soul in a way that no other novel has. After much reflection, I found her morali...
Courage and cruelty, honor and horror, miraculous escapes and damning coincidences are the stuff of film and novel, but also — at singular moments of history, f...
For too long, people have interpreted Jesus’ teachings of peacemaking practices as Platonic ideals, high and beautiful, but not practical in real life. But when...
