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September 2025

September 10, 2025

The Final Turning Point: On The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

Update (9/15/2025 1:55 pm PST): This will be the final update to this post. According...

May 2024

May 03, 2024

Can Dreams Be Sinful?

In contemporary Christianity the claim is often made that only behaviors are sinful. However, the...

May 17, 2023

Are Demons Real?: Movie Review of “Nefarious”

"Yes, Virginia, demons are real." And they are real not only as Francis Church described Santa...

April 2023

April 05, 2023

This Easter, Choose Resurrection Life Over The Culture of Death

As we enter into Easter week, my exhortation to all who read these words is...

December 2022

December 26, 2022

What Christmas Is Really About: Part 3(b) – Knowledge and True Belief

In the last article in this series on Christmas, I wrote about some longstanding philosophical...

October 2022

October 27, 2022

Are Christians and Born Again Christians The Same Thing?

Are Christians and "Born Again" Christians the same thing? Well, the straight forward and simple...

October 12, 2022

20 Common Sense Truths People Hate

Recently Jordan Peterson interviewed Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft. Kreeft is one of the wisest voices in American...

August 2022

August 29, 2022

What Should Christians Study?: Part 2(a) – Philosophical Apologetics

In this series, I am stepping back to look at the discipline of attaining Christian...

July 2022

July 22, 2022

Christianity and Pagan Knowledge: Three Approaches

In the history of the Christian Church, there are roughly three kinds of people to...

June 2022

June 24, 2022

The Overwhelming Of The Evangelical Mind: Information and The Soul’s Limits

In a previous post, I wrote that the Evangelical mind was being split apart. This...

June 10, 2022

Two Ways of Knowing God: Scholasticism And Mysticism

In his 1930 Church History for "upper high school & college courses and adult reading,"...

December 2021

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...

November 2021

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...

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 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...

July 2021

July 09, 2021

The Task of Theology: Do We Speak Well of God?

A few years back I heard theologian Kevin Vanhoozer describe the task of theology very...

June 2021

June 14, 2021

Three Features of CRT That Hurt Us (Part 3): Moral Legalism

In the first two posts of this series I argued that Critical Race Theory (CRT)...

June 11, 2021

Three Features of CRT That Hurt Us (part 2): Pure Politics

In the previous post, I claimed there are three core features of Critical Race Theory...

June 07, 2021

Three Features of CRT and How They Harm Society (Part 1)

Critical Race Theory now pervades almost every corner of American society. It is in schools,...