The year was 1965. Martin Luther was scheduled to speak at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, the school his wife Coretta Scott King had attended. There was a plot to assassinate him while in town to speak at the event. It was called off due to a KKK rally in another Ohio town about thirty minutes away. There was…...
Read MoreLast week Pope Francis addressed the governing body of the Catholic Church, called the Holy See. He spoke on a number of topics including immigration, global warming, the COVID pandemic, and concerns regarding cancel culture. His address sparked conversation across the news networks with some calling into question the relevance of the Catholic position. In the main, most of what…...
Read MoreThis weekend I made a sketch to illustrate one of my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes. King said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." This powerful message reverberates the words of Jesus to love our enemies. If we applied this to our social media interactions,…...
Read MoreHere's Your Weekend 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). ⊕ Between a Hamster and a Hard…...
Read MoreOn one occasion, G.K. Chesterton debated his atheist friend George Bernard Shaw. Chesterton's paper, fittingly named G.K.'s Weekly, worked on a story covering the debate. To fit the allotted space, they needed to significantly edit comments from Shaw. Chesterton walked into the room and remarked, "And whose words are you so gaily murdering?" When he discovered they were those of…...
Read MoreHuman values require faith. G.K. Chesterton described this sort of faith as "the superstitions of the sceptic." Even those who deny God's existence still retain certain moral intuitions about things—Chesterton cited wearing clothes in public as one example—such values aren't grounded in a scientific or materialistic point of view. Chesterton quipped that the morality of cannibalism is more than a…...
Read MoreThe fourteenth chapter of John's gospel reads like a Q&A time at a Christian conference. John records Jesus responding to perennial questions offered by three seemingly insignificant disciples. Thomas, Philip, and Judas (not Iscariot), all make cameos in the chapter. Each disciple has a burning question. Thomas asks "how can we know the way" (John 14:4). Philip asks "what is…...
Read MoreThis last year we bought our youngest son and daughter hamsters for Christmas. They were thrilled. They had both been asking for rodents for months. Their dreams came true on Christmas morning when we brought the two hamsters, each in their own cages, out from our bedroom where we had been hiding them for days. All was well until it…...
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