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October 2020

October 05, 2020

Revision 6.1 “Decline and Response, ‘Party Kings’ and Crusaders”

My manuscript now begins to treat what I call, following Marshall G. S....

October 04, 2020

“Even if we cannot prove them with absolute certainty”

Yet another passage from Alister McGrath's "Twilight of Atheism" talk as it appears,...

May 2020

May 24, 2020

Scientism versus Scientism’s Caricature of Christian Theism

A note from the British Marxist literary critic Terry Eagleton's 2008 Terry Lectures...

May 17, 2020

Victor Hugo on Immortality?

We have been using a bit of our extra at-home Sabbath time to...

May 12, 2020

J. B. Phillips on Luke as historian

I've long been a fan of J. B. Phillips (1906-1982) and his translation...

April 2020

April 19, 2020

Try to imagine a totally different morality

In his classic 1952 book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis discusses God and...

April 10, 2020

Three who yearned for Easter

For Easter 2017, I published this column in the Deseret News: A...

March 2020

March 13, 2020

“We haven’t let anyone take us in.”

Occasionally, when I'm reading online comments from some of the more embittered, alienated,...

March 11, 2020

“Enemy-Occupied Territory”

"Teachings and Testimony of the First Vision: Joseph Fielding McConkie Discusses the First Vision...

February 2020

February 23, 2020

What makes evil possible?

But, first, here's something new from the Interpreter Foundation: "Teachings and Testimony...

February 20, 2020

“The most convinced and convincing Christian writer of his generation”

I published this column in the Provo Daily Herald on 28 July 1999:...

February 16, 2020

“The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.”

We and our visiting friends attended church this morning and then had lunch...

February 15, 2020

Unrivalled silliness and conceit?

I've always wanted to visit Sedona, but somehow, prior to today, I...

February 12, 2020

“God and mr. hitchens,” again

I've been asked by a reader to substantiate my lack of admiration for...

February 05, 2020

Interesting thoughts from C. S. Lewis on the origins of modern science

Things are constantly in flux in the world of science. Here are two...

December 2019

December 18, 2019

‘The difficulty is to me a fatal one”

In 1944, C. S. Lewis delivered an address to the Oxford Socratic Club. Here are...

April 2019

April 27, 2019

“Therefore there must be a heaven”

A characteristic argument advanced by the great C. S. Lewis, and one that...

April 24, 2019

On the Christian hope of heaven

I share two thought-provoking passages on hope, from the great C. S. Lewis's...

April 22, 2019

Christian discipleship and mercenary reward

Recently, in the comments section of this blog, an atheist critic took to...

April 18, 2019

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, C.S. Lewis, and the hope of Easter

I published this article in the Deseret News on 13 April 2017: ...

April 02, 2019

Against straw men

For specific reasons, I've lately been watching certain online debates -- something that...

March 2019

March 07, 2019

Thinking of “The Inner Ring”

On a predominantly atheistic message board that is deeply hostile both to the...

November 2018

November 22, 2018

“Round as an orange, my lad!”

We were in an area of the rainforest of northern Queensland today that,...

April 2018

April 01, 2018

“The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs!”

It is, I realize, a weird character flaw -- or, probably more accurately...