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June 2015

June 30, 2015

A Culture War Worth Finishing

The phrase "culture war" is a little bit like the word "abortion." Both terms exist...

May 2015

May 13, 2015

Don’t Call C.S. Lewis an “Evolutionist”

Douglas Wilson has some helpful perspective on C.S. Lewis's beliefs on human origin. While it's...

May 02, 2015

How Millennials Can Be Happy Again

It was the pastor Martyn Lloyd Jones who said, "Have you realized that most of...

March 2015

March 02, 2015

4 Responses a Non-Scientist Christian Can Give to Science-Based Atheism

Lack of scientific knowledge can leave Christians feeling vulnerable when talking to unbelieving friends about...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Surrendering Earth to Thugs: How Atheism Empowers ISIS

By now many of you have surely either read or seen mentioned Graeme Wood's cover...

February 09, 2015

Dotage and Dawkins

Valerie Tarico is the latest to observe the spectacular decline of Richard Dawkins. She zeroes...

January 2015

January 07, 2015

“The Prophet Has Been Avenged”

Horror and heartbreak in Paris: Three masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a...

January 02, 2015

Looking at Science to Find God?

First, Eric Metaxas explains at The Wall Street Journal how scientific discoveries are pointing towards...

November 2014

November 03, 2014

Why I Vote Conservative

Election Day is tomorrow for the United States. Federal and state elections will be held...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

The Heretic Huck Finn

B.D. McClay continues the conversation about A.O. Scott's essay on the death of adulthood. The...

October 20, 2014

David Brooks On Everybody’s “2 Adams”

This morning I saw Rod Dreher highlight this speech given this month by New York...

October 13, 2014

Pelvic Theology

Why do many millennials avoid church? Joel Miller ponders one reason: College students who lose...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

Stop Denigrating Philosophy

If there's one story I'm tired of opening on my computer, it's the public figure...

August 2014

August 21, 2014

The Decline of Dawkins

A couple of years ago I attended a lecture by Richard Dawkins while he was...

August 19, 2014

Must the Haters Hate?

I own a Taylor Swift album. That information falls under the category, “Things I tell...

August 11, 2014

Still Waking Up: Michael Novak, 20 Years Later

Twenty years have passed since Michael Novak delivered his Templeton Prize address, "Awakening From Nihilism."...

August 04, 2014

New Atheist fearmongering on philosophy of religion

John Loftus has added his voice to the New Atheist choir that is chortling for...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

A Different Reality for Christians

A woman once wrote to C.S. Lewis in great distress. It appeared, she said, that...

June 2014

June 16, 2014

On Rape Culture

The Women's Center at Marshall offers the following definition of "rape culture:" Rape Culture is...

June 06, 2014

True Detective and What We Really Believe

One of the finer blog posts on the True Detective series comes from...