Do Tummy Aches Disprove God?
My tummy hurts. Ergo, there is no god. This argument may be absurd but it is not intended as a reductio ad absurdum. Although a very simplistic form, this enthymeme encapsulates one of the primary...
View Article…When in Doubt, Just Assume
Last Saturday night, April 4th, Biola University sponsored a debate between prominent atheist writer Christopher Hitchens and Biola’s own Dr. William Lane Craig, one of the world’s foremost...
View ArticleReconciliation
Geography is important to any city. By looking at the placement of houses, entertainment and work places, one can slowly piece together both the citizens’ character and philosophy. Temples and...
View ArticleMorality And The Wrath Of God
One of the major objections to Christianity raised by some atheists is that the God of the Bible does not seem to be a good God. In contrast to the popular portrayals of a benign and merciful Jesus who...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Contemporary Christian Music
Dear Contemporary Christian Music, I wouldn’t be writing this letter if I hadn’t heard you were feeling a bit better. After all, you have been off-color the last hundred years or so. I’d like to make...
View ArticleOn the proper care and feeding of a church secretary
Hello, my name is Rachel, and I am a burnt out former church secretary. The Stuff Christians Like blog had a post on the church secretary, the most powerful person in the church some time ago. It’s...
View ArticleAnswering in the Negative: What Suffering Isn’t?
Over at CNN’s religion blog, Timothy Keller wrote a bit about the age-old problem of pain and suffering: what do we conclude about God when we observe suffering for some people and not for others? He...
View ArticleTheodicy of Glory
“A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality…” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers Caution: The following post contains a slight spoiler to G. K. Chesterton’s The Man who was Thursday....
View ArticleIn Defense Of The Pope
I am a Protestant. Not only a Protestant, but an evangelical. And not only an evangelical, but a Calvinist. In short, I have no love for the Papacy. I do not believe that the Pope is the Vicar of...
View ArticleLet’s Club ‘Em Into Heaven: Fighting with Grace
Rich Mullins tells a story about an argument he got into with a friend who happened to be an atheist. He explains how he attacked and attacked, constantly on the offensive, swatting away rejections and...
View ArticleOn Highbrow Christianity
Opera, classical music, wine tasting, craft beer, classical languages and literature: all these things exemplify highbrow taste. Highbrow interests require education and development of the ability to...
View ArticleOn Smart Christianity: Not Just Interesting Ideas
There is not really a “beyond” in Christian theology, given that everything that we learn in Sunday school is still true when systematic theology rears its dogmatic head. It is impossible to transcend...
View ArticleSpiritual Warfare is Guerrilla Warfare
Spiritual warfare is hardly a neat war between the uniformed armies of equal countries, snapping up this bit of land with all those nice mines and factories in it or grabbing up that lucrative trade...
View ArticleWhat if a Doctrine Feels Wrong?
When universalists look at the idea of people going to hell, they often have an emotional reaction. The idea of people going to hell ought to provoke an emotional reaction, and the number of missions...
View ArticleSaint Nietzsche: The Last True Atheist
There have been few men as great as the late Friedrich Nietzsche, and the longer he is gone, the more that I miss him. He was great in the same way a hurricane is great, or the Cambodian Genocide was...
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