The gospel is a foolish message delivered to blind men in a fallen world. And yet it is the very light by which they must see in order to understand the world in which they live. I know this claim is audacious. Yet it is not unlike Hawking’s assertion (quoted yesterday) that to discover

  “For then we would know the mind of God.” This is the final line from Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.” Hawking is one of many physicists throughout the history of science who has sought a unifying vision of reality. Scientists have searched for

I was once asked why Christians have so many events just to apologize. This came, of course, in response to an “Apologetics” conference we were promoting at Southern Seminary. Apologetics is based on the Greek word “apologia,” which is a legal term meaning “defense.” There is also a biblical basis for apologetics as stated in

“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science.” In his 1995 book Darwin’s Dangerous Idea, Dennett continues the previous quote with these words, “There is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination.” University of Notre Dame Professor of Philosophy, Alvin Plantinga, gives a similar appraisal, “It would be excessively naive to

On Sunday, October 9, 2011, former Beatles member Paul McCartney married his girlfriend of four years Nancy Shevell. What I found most interesting about this particular day was not McCartney’s wedding (his third now), but that it was intentionally held on what would have been John Lennon’s 71st birthday. For Lennon, who popularized the words