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I vividly remember the buzz around four individuals who described themselves as the "four horsemen of the atheist apocalypse". There was an energy in the air, filling the bookstores, and going viral on social media. These four thinkers included the philosopher, Daniel Dennett, the neuroscientist, Sam Harris, the razor-sharp-witted journalist, Christopher Hitchens, and the verbose evolutionary-biologist Richard Dawkins. These…...
Read MoreThe following is a short article on true religion that appeared in both a Missouri and Ohio paper in 1842. The author is not identified. It gives a brief and timely reminder of what the Bible considers pure religion. “What is religion? Not that which meteor-like, shines for a brief period and then fades and disappears. Not that which talks…...
Read MoreHere's Your Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:30AM (EST). ⊕ Live Like Aiden: The True Story Behind Springfield, Ohio…...
Read MoreI've posted the video below from a talk I recently gave at SBU as a part of the series "Why Believe in God?". Taking the first two chapters of Romans, I argue that the text explains two paths away from God. One way is hedonism as described in Romans 1 as living as though God does not exist. The other…...
Read MoreLast night my son Josiah asked me to play a song by the artist Thomas Rhett. It's a sweet song about his memories at his grandmother's house. Why would my thirteen-year-old be drawn to a song like this? Because we're all drawn to mamaw's house, that place of love, acceptance, food, friendship, conversation, and laughter. Like the song says, every…...
Read MoreLiving in a small village in Ohio makes it rather unlikely that your community will make international news. And yet it often does. The governor of the state lives on a farm here. We've had recent Olympic gold medal winners who attended school here. And the man called "the father of Labor Day" was an Ohio senator from our little…...
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