Et Cetera

Finding Nemo & Spiritual Growth

My original title was “Love & Truth: A Symbiosis,” which sounds about as interesting as a root canal. You likely remember the scene from Finding Nemo, of the excited clown fish Marty flirting with his wife and making over their soon-to-hatch eggs. This is of course before a much larger toothy fish eats the eggs,

On Hiding Behind Dead Men

It is fashionable among academicians to hide behind dead men. In order to strengthen one’s position, one need only evoke the name of some bygone philosopher or theologian. “Oh, my poisition is Aristotilian” one will say in one breath, but in the next “Well, it’s not that Aristotelian.” If one really wanted to perpetuate Aristotle’s

Surprised by Chesterton

“Ignorance is the first penalty of pride.” So wrote H.G. Wells in his 1920 work The Outline of Human History, in which he argued that Christianity had collapsed “like a house of cards” in light of evolutionary theory.  “The whole moral edifice,” Wells said referring to Christianity “was built upon false history.” If ignorance is

Of Books & Men

Of Books & Men

  I began publishing “Sketchy Views” in 2010. These are pencil sketches that I produce to illustrate worldview topics, poke fun at dogmatic philosophers, and juxtapose “new” theologies with orthodox ones. I have imposed specific laws or rules that I try to maintain for Sketchy Views in that it is always in a coffee shop;

A Christian Theory of Everything (4/5)

  For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Cor. 4:6) The key to unlocking the mystery of the cosmos is to understand where it came from; More specifically,