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December 2021

December 22, 2021

Moral Decision Making and The Fear of the Lord: Part 2 – Acts of Fraud

In this series I am arguing that the right starting point for any moral decision...

December 20, 2021

Moral Decision Making and The Fear of the LORD: Part 1 – Acts of Fear

In Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity, moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre says this about making moral...

December 13, 2021

On Not Doing Evil So That Good May Come: The Martyrdom of Franz Jäggerstätter

8 und nicht vielmehr also tun, wie wir gelästert werden und wie etliche sprechen, daß wir...

December 10, 2021

To Have The Faith of A Child: A Christmas Meditation

In most of my articles on Patheos, I intend to present what I believe are...

December 06, 2021

LGBTQ+ And The Search for The Infinite God

The LGBTQ+ movement, a political agenda which derives its intellectual framework from "Queer Theory," is...

December 03, 2021

Trying To Be Good Without God, Or Hoping “We Won’t Get Fooled Again”

In his Dialogue with Trypho, the 2nd century Christian apologist, Justin Martyr, summarizes the Christian...

November 2021

November 29, 2021

Christians, Stop Listening to Propaganda!

In a chilling treatise on the nature of propaganda, French sociologist and theologian Jaques Ellul...

November 26, 2021

How (Not) To Train Your Dragon: When the Bible and Cultural Mythology Clash

In the much beloved, critically acclaimed DreamWorks series How to Train Your Dragon, we encounter...

November 22, 2021

The Most Important Movie Ever Made and Why You Should Show It At Church

In America today we see the very foundations of morality and law crumbling under our...

November 19, 2021

Dialogue Without End?: The Prideful Doctrine of “Intellectual Humility”

There is a tactic the devil uses to slowly infiltrate and change the people of...

November 15, 2021

Becoming Evil: Dorian Gray And The Prospect of Eternal Hell

In a previous post, I recounted a true story of real evil. The story was...

November 12, 2021

Critical Theory and Classic Christianity: Are They Compatible?

In this interview with Jason Rennie at The Apologia Project, we talk in depth about...

November 08, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 6: Made To Worship

In this series I have argued there are features that are fundamental to all human...

November 03, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 5: Longing For Recognition

In this series, I have argued there are shared features among cultures and between individuals...

October 2021

October 29, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 4: The Crushing Burden of Guilt

In this series I've been arguing that there are features of daily life which remind...

October 25, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 3: Facing And Overcoming Fear

In this series I am looking at how human beings share a human nature, a...

October 20, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 2: What is Human Identity?

In this series I am looking at the act of deconstruction and juxtaposing it against...

October 15, 2021

Reconstructing Humanity – Part 1: What are Deconstruction Stories?

There is a lot of talk today in the popular culture and the culture's popular...

October 13, 2021

The Embattled Church: Sinners, Saints and Charlatans

Christians worldwide have been devastated recently by many high-profile falls from grace. Revelations of gross...

October 08, 2021

Denzel’s “Indelible Mark” and The Spirit of God

I recently came across this short video of the greatest actor alive today, Denzel Washington...

October 04, 2021

The Beautiful Law Of God

“The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver...

September 2021

September 27, 2021

Crossing Lessing’s “Ugly Broad Ditch”: The Historical Testimony to Miracles

One of the great skeptics of the 18th century, Gotthold Lessing, coined a phrase to...

September 24, 2021

Resentment and Her Children: The Emotional Heart of Critical Theory

Critical Theories, and most prominently Critical Race Theory, are, on the one hand, sophisticated intellectual...

September 20, 2021

Why We Cannot Prove God Exists and That’s Okay

In his masterful introduction to Metaphysics, Peter van Inwagen points out why the cosmic fine-tuning...

September 17, 2021

10 Questions To Ask Before Doing the Social Justice Thing

"But let justice flow like water, and righteousness, like an unfailing stream." - Amos 5:4...

September 13, 2021

Eros, Agape and Why We Cannot Love Well

In an incisive, albeit slightly esoteric, essay entitled "The Schizoid Christ," theologian Graham Ward criticizes...

September 10, 2021

Was Afghanistan Worth It?: Part 3, “Was it Worth it for Soldiers?”

In his brutally honest treatment of men in war, philosopher and soldier J. Glenn Gray...

September 06, 2021

Was Afghanistan Worth It?: Part 2, “Was It Worth It For Afghans?”

In this series, I am asking the question on many American minds right now: "was...

September 01, 2021

Was Afghanistan Worth It?: Part 1, “Was it Worth it For America?”

Afghanistan is once again newsworthy. To me this is unfortunate (often, from a military perspective,...

August 2021

August 25, 2021

Losing Orthodox Christianity in America – Losing The Heart

In this series, I am arguing that there are three battlefields of human culture upon...