George 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…...
Read MoreYou may have seen the new campaign featured recently by Christianity Today called "He Gets Us." It's a movement to reach those on the outs with organized religion. If you haven't noticed, that's a rapidly growing number here in America, what researchers call the "nones," those with no religious affiliation. The campaign sets the sacrificial love of Jesus against the…...
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). ⊕ Debunking Christianity ⊕ Not Caring is the Greater Pride ⊕ Jordan Peterson's…...
Read MoreIs Christian belief mere wishful thinking? Is the faith of the New Testament based on blind allegiance to an irrational worldview? Must we — as followers of Jesus — turn a deaf ear and a blind eye to evidence and reasoned arguments? In his recent article "Biblical Theism and the Demise of Modern Christianity" skeptic Richard C. Miller makes these kinds…...
Read MoreWhen asked if he could preach only one sermon in life, G.K. Chesterton responded it would be one against pride. Pride is perhaps the most acceptable sin in church life today. When was the last time you saw an issue of church discipline related to arrogance? When was the last time you heard a sermon preached against it? Like Chesterton,…...
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