Here'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). ⊕ Once Upon a September ⊕ A Long-haired Son of a Sinner…...
Read MoreOn a Sunday in September, over ninety-years ago, C.S. Lewis took a walk that forever changed his life. He was enjoying the fellowship of his friends J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. Their conversation turned to myth and reality. The wind picked up. Lewis tuned in. His restless atheism was giving way to belief in God. Lewis later described Tolkien and…...
Read MoreSome country songs get it more right than others. In this case, it couldn't get it more wrong. But I do understand the sentiment. "I'm only one drink away from the devil," the lead singer of the band Jelly Roll sings, "I'm only one call away from home. Yeah, I'm somewhere in the middle. I guess I'm just a little…...
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). ⊕ A Good Word for a New Semester ⊕ On Going…...
Read MoreGeorge Bernard Shaw was a public intellectual who opposed Christianity yet was close friends with Christians of his day like G.K. Chesterton. He was the kind of atheist I think I'd like to be friends with, the kind you could really talk about things without it becoming a mere exchange of sound bytes and superficial arguments from a Wiki page.…...
Read MoreThe second light in our little town tells the whole story. "Summer is over," it reminds us when it turns from a flashing yellow light to its academic pattern that includes green and red. It's the middle light in our town bordered on the one side by the local public school and on the other by the local university. It's…...
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). ⊕ Narrative Universes and Pop Myths ⊕ He Gets Us…...
Read MoreSome articles get you with the title. This one got me with the picture (above). The recent piece in the Wall Street Journal seems custom made for Theolatte, "The Power of Our New Pop Myths." It chronicles the force of story through the centuries surveying those deep human questions beneath the surface of our favorite narratives. Author Adam Kirsch argues…...
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