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). ⊕ Preparing for the Blues ⊕ A Nobel Devotion & a…...
Read MoreIf you were of a PG-13 age in 2009—you likely saw first hand, or at least heard of—the hullabaloo surrounding the release of the movie Avatar. It was a cinematic sight to behold. It captured the imagination of the cultural moment. Everybody was talking about it. But the buzz took a turn for the worse in regards to the movie's…...
Read MoreOver Thanksgiving break I tricked my family into watching a movie I hoped to skip. Maybe it was kind of a jerk thing to do. My nephew and his fiancé wanted to see Wakanda Forever. I wanted to see Devotion. For the record, I've already seen the Black Panther sequel and I loved it. But I wasn't keen on rewatching…...
Read MoreNot long ago, I wrote a post about how a passionate speech by Hitler and boring Sunday sermon inspired C.S. Lewis's demons. In writing the manuscript for the first episode for my podcast Mere Caffeination, I threw in a comment I hadn't thought much about before. I compared C.S. Lewis's diabolical Screwtape Letters to the book of Proverbs. I think…...
Read MoreC.S. Lewis dedicated the Screwtape Letters to his good friend J.R.R. Tolkien, beloved author of the Middle Earth stories. But did Tolkien even like the Screwtape Letters? Unrelated, what was the cave where Tolkien and Lewis’s spent so much time together? Were these two authors into spelunking? And why didn’t Tolkien’s wife let him hang out at C.S. Lewis’s house?…...
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). ⊕ Theolatte Live ⊕ The Apologetics of Food & Gladness ⊕ Three Undeniable…...
Read More"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold," Tolkien wrote in the Hobbit, "it would be a merrier world." You might not think of these simple pleasures of food and cheer as an evidence of God. But in Acts 14, the Apostle Paul uses them as an argument for God's existence. While Paul and Barnabas…...
Read MoreDon't be fooled. You can deny anything you want. That, of course, doesn't change reality. Reality doesn't care what you accept or deny. You can deny gravity, but you're still going to hit the ground if you jump from a high point. All of this to say, my title of three "undeniable" facts requires some nuance. In addition to being…...
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