Theolatte Live is a weekly streaming program on Friday mornings featuring caffeinated conversations about the convergence of theology and philosophy. The program consists of (1) a Psalm for the day, (2) an introduction to an old book out of my personal library, a (3) a highlight from R.C. Sproul's book The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our…...
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). ⊕ Mere Caffeination: Episode One ⊕ Atheism in the Lip, Not the…...
Read MoreNothing comes off more presumptuous than telling someone they don't really believe what they claim they do. There was probably a time I would rush in with an atheist friend to tell them they really believe in God. I never found that to be an effective strategy at nurturing meaningful conversations, if I'm being honest. Francis Bacon, an English philosopher…...
Read MoreG.K. CHESTERTON once said, "the tendency of recent culture has been to tolerate the smile but discourage the laugh." It's not that G.K.C didn't like smiling, he simply didn't prefer it over laughter. Here's why. In his essay "Laughter," Chesterton outlines three reasons why a laugh is better than a smile: 1. The smile can easily turn into a sneer,…...
Read MoreIt's now live! After a whole lot of effort figuring out how a computer works with an external microphone, which evidently is more difficult than I realized, and tinkering around with audio production, the first episode of Mere Caffeination is now online wherever podcasts are found and streamed. Mere Caffeination is an Inklings-inspired podcasts about cultivating a winsome Christian witness…...
Read MoreTheolatte Live is a weekly streaming program on Friday mornings featuring caffeinated conversations about the convergence of theology and philosophy. The program consists of (1) a Psalm for the day, (2) an introduction to an old book out of my personal library, a (3) a highlight from R.C. Sproul's book The Consequences of Ideas: Understanding the Concepts that Shaped Our…...
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). ⊕ How Hitler and a Boring Sermon Awakened C.S. Lewis's Demons…...
Read MoreIt was a hot dry summer in 1940 in Oxford, England. That ended in July when the heavens opened up with deluge rainfalls. It must have been a wet Saturday evening when C.S. Lewis, the man who would take to speaking over the radio in the very near future, turned on his own radio on and tuned in to listen…...
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