Posted in eschatology on 29 February 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is a fascinating read on parenting, mortality and the way we seem incurably drawn toward a lasting hope. It sort of reminds me with a conversation Julie and I had the other day about whether or not she had to become an adult some day. The upshot of the conversation was that [...]
Posted in evangelicalism, public religion on 23 February 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m starting to wonder about the possibility of a very counterintuitive truth. What if we evangelicals are among the more secular folk around? Even as a I write it, this is a question that seems odd. Evangelicals are known for their historical opposition to secularism and evangelicalism (if it can be defined) [...]
Posted in apologetics, creation, science on 12 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
Having discussed some of the theoretical issues, we’re now dealing with a succession of challenges that are often made by inquirers and critics of the Christian faith. The first of these has to do with a cluster of issues that could fall under the heading of the perceived conflict between science and religion. [...]
Posted in apologetics, faith, theology on 5 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
The title of this post is somewhat misleading but it speaks to the difficulty of making a positive case for the existence of God. I don’t mean to simply categorize all of the mystery inherent within human experience and then apply the name ‘God’ to it but an apologetic interest in the question doesn’t [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 1 February 2008 | No Comments »
“Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from God, that this is the sound that God’s voice makes in a world that has explained him away. In such a world, I suspect that maybe God speaks to [...]
