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March 2024

March 19, 2024

Hope in a Time of Secular Despair

I review a new book by the Catholic thinker R. J. Snell entitled "Lost in...

March 01, 2024

Why Protestants Convert to Catholicism

Some Protestants convert to Catholicism, according to a recent book, because of the failures of...

February 2024

February 20, 2024

“He Saves Us”

The "He Gets Us" campaign is a major evangelistic initiative. Its SuperBowl ad has stirred...

January 2024

January 08, 2024

An Epiphany Miscellany, 2024

The epiphany of the star; the epiphany of the incarnation; a literary epiphany; and a...

December 2023

December 28, 2023

C. S. Lewis’s “Christmas Sermon for Pagans”

In a recently-discovered uncollected essay from 1946, C. S. Lewis explores the difference between pagans,...

October 2023

October 12, 2023

Does Everything Have Consciousness?

Science has uncovered a huge amount of information about the universe. But some areas are...

September 2023

September 19, 2023

Is the Tide Turning on Religious Belief?

As I've been blogging about "the great dechurching," I was reading a book that I...

July 2023

July 21, 2023

Who Does Attend Church

The conventional wisdom is that religion is especially attractive to the poor and uneducated. As...

June 2023

June 23, 2023

Is the Universe a Brain?

Science is used to assuming that the universe is just a collection of inert objects...

June 01, 2023

The Elder Brother Syndrome

Tim Keller, the former pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan who brought the Gospel...

May 2023

May 25, 2023

On Anti-Christian Conservatism

In discussing "The Future of Christianity," R. R. Reno cites a trend that Christians need...

April 2023

April 12, 2023

Should Churches Hide Their Controversial Beliefs?

Critics of the "He Gets Us" campaign and "seeker-sensitive" congregations are complaining that the people...

February 2023

February 24, 2023

The Three Stages of the World’s Attitude to Christianity

Aaron Renn points to three different stages of the secular world's attitude towards Christianity: Positive...

February 24, 2023

DISCUSSION: How Should Christians Deal with Cultural Hostility?

What strategies and tactics should Christians take to resist today's hostility against Christianity and to...

February 17, 2023

Why You Can’t Have Equality without God

We are told that you can have morality without belief in God. This is true,...

February 14, 2023

Political Conversions

Religious conversion generally has to do with spiritual transformation, personal commitment, theological conviction, and the...

January 2023

January 30, 2023

Publishing My Critique of Constructivism

A major newspaper published my critique of constructivism. The backstory and the article.

January 02, 2023

Hamann’s “London Writings” Now on Kindle

J. G. Hamann's "London Writings," his spiritual and theological journals, has been compared to Augustine's...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

The Theological Significance of the Incarnation

Since it is still Christmas and will be until Epiphany on January 6, I want...

December 14, 2022

“Many Shall Be Offended”

An End Times preacher cites how people are always claiming to be "offended" all the...

December 06, 2022

An Alien Programmer? Or a Creator God?

Another thing many of our tech lords believe: The universe and we ourselves are actually...

August 2022

August 17, 2022

An Overwhelming Christian, Pro-Life Novel

You have got to read Edna Hong's novel "Bright Valley of Love," a true story...

August 04, 2022

Deconstructing Faith and the Theology of the Cross? (part 1)

Many Christians today--especially evangelicals--say that they are in the process of "deconstructing" their faith, scrutinizing...

July 2022

July 26, 2022

“Christianity Is More Than True”

Christianity is true. But it is not just head-knowledge, nor is it just heart-knowledge. Joshua Pauling...

June 2022

June 06, 2022

The Opposite of Christianity?

In a penetrating critique of contemporary culture, the novelist Paul Kingsnorth argues that the Christian...

January 2022

January 31, 2022

The First English Translation of Hamann’s “London Writings”

The thought of the 18th century German thinker J. G. Hamann has been rediscovered, with...

October 2021

October 08, 2021

My Experience with Conservative Atheism

How wrestling with the ideas of Ayn Rand--her attacks on Christianity and her "virtue of...

October 07, 2021

Right-Wing Atheists

When some Christians get involved in conservative politics, they are often surprised to find themselves...

July 2021

July 30, 2021

Panpsychism and the Scientific Search for Consciousness

Scientists are finding it impossible to find a physical cause for consciousness. So instead of...

May 2021

May 20, 2021

Is Secularism Crumbling?

Is secularism starting to lose its appeal? A European evangelist thinks so, citing five specific...