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Why Fights Over Religious Liberty Matter Today
Religious liberty has historically been considered America’s first freedom because of its prominence in the minds of America’s founders and...
Changing Culture Requires Persistence
Paul’s missionary journeys occupied decades of his life. His martyrdom was preceded by serious, painful persecution. Yet his steadfast refrain...
Refuting Science as God
It is important to clarify something. Science does nothing. It is scientists who create breakthroughs using the disciplines of observing,...
Why Do Right and Wrong Matter?
The Jean Valjean character in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables is a broken, bitter man, a known thief who will surely...
Making a Living or Making a Life
These days, questions like “What does it mean to know a particular thing?” have been supplanted by questions like “What...
Making Sense of Postmodern Metaphysics
So what is really real? Here’s a baffling but revealing example about how Postmodernists approach the question. In 1991 French...
Good News to Consider Every Day
Some see God as a judge who, after a couple of millennia of contemplation, decides to punish his own son...
The Corrupting Power of Sin
Things function best according to design. If we ignore God’s design for eating, our bodies function poorly. If we ignore...
How Good Was Creation?
Christianity rejects the reduction of human life to an “episode between two oblivions” as Ernest Nagel memorably phrased it. "Good"...
What's So Bad about Marxism?
One of the big issues I’ve wrestled with during the Understanding the Times revision is how relevant some of the...
We Can't Misunderstand Islamic Theology
I’m now writing the Islam worldview chapter for the new edition of Understanding the Times. Of the 10,000 words in...
The True Believer is Everywhere on the March
Last night I finished the chapter on the Secularist worldview for the new Understanding the Times course. Unsurprisingly, the research...