The first season of the Mere Caffeination podcast is now in the books, in which we survey the Screwtape Letters and interview some amazing guests. Sam Allberry kicked off the first episode. The season included interviews with Christian author Trillia Newbell, and Ameen Hudson, cohost of the Southside Rabbi podcast. In the final episode, we're joined by literature professor Dr.…...
Read MoreIn a recent piece at the Big Think website, Peter Cave, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, author of How to Think Like a Philosopher, encourages readers to ditch all their beliefs and start over. This highlights the moral dilemma of belief, which can be framed by the question of whether or not it is more virtuous to hold…...
Read MoreLast week, I took my sons on a camping trip for fathers and sons put on by our church's student ministry. We hiked. We perspired. We stunk. We ate food cooked over an open fire. It was a manly endeavor. After breakfast the next morning, a leader shared some encouragements from the book of Ecclesiastes that helped me see something…...
Read MoreSeveral years ago I heard a speaker compare a Christian's personal witness with concentric circles. Their testimony is the first circle in their personal apologetics. Like a pebble dropped in a pond, there will be additional circles expanding outwards. While a person's account of the hope within them is where their apologetic begins, it should not be where it ends.…...
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 7:40AM (EST). ⊕ The Evil That Haunts Us ⊕ The Trouble With X…...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal recently commemorated the 50 year anniversary of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, calling it "arguably the 20th century's greatest piece of nonfiction prose." Solzhenitsyn wrote it from over hundreds of interviews of fellow prisoners. He dedicated the work to those who didn't live to tell their stories. In it, Solzhenitsyn writes…...
Read MoreIt is true that we are far too stingy when it comes to doling out grace to others and far too generous in serving ourselves. That's because our faults are understandable. Indeed, we understand them well. It's the faults of others that are truly incomprehensible. And we would straighten them out were they not so crooked that they would never…...
Read MoreWhat would you say if you could preach just one sermon? This is the topic of a collection of works published in 1929 as If I Could Preach Just Once. The contributors are diverse, ranging from atheists to apologists. And the sermons are as variegated as their authors. The prolific atheistic philosopher Bertrand Russell provides a sermon against fear, what…...
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