Sometimes the title of an article tells a story of its own. This last weekend the Wall Street Journal carried a story — "An Aversion to Reality" — a review of Fintan O'Toole's book We Don't Know Ourselves, part memoir and part cultural analysis. "Ireland could not bear too much reality," O'Toole is quoted as writing. I had to sit…...
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). ⊕ Jesus is the Question ⊕ On Deconstruction: The Tale of Two…...
Read MoreJesus was an amazing story teller. He could turn something as simple as a fig tree into an pointed parable with layers of complexity, offering healing to some and rebuke to others. But none of his stories hit me with more force than the tale of two brothers in Luke's gospel. The fifteenth chapter of Luke contains three lost stories…...
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). ⊕ There's No Faith Crisis on Campus ⊕ The Gospel of Donald…...
Read MoreThere's no faith crisis brewing on the college campus, at least not the type depicted movies like "God's Not Dead," argues Ryan Burge in the Wall Street Journal. The notion that education is correlated with a loss of faith is false, Burge demonstrates. He uses twelve years of research from Harvard University to make his point. "People with the least…...
Read MoreThe Atlantic recently carried as story about a speech by the son of the most recent U.S. President "We’ve turned the other cheek," Donlad Trump Jr. said, "and I understand, sort of, the biblical reference—I understand the mentality—but it’s gotten us nothing. Okay? It’s gotten us nothing while we’ve ceded ground in every major institution in our country.” The journalist…...
Read MoreThe website "The Big Think" offers ideas about the everything. I call them ideas because, though they are offered alongside of scientific insights, they are interpretations of the way a person see the world. That's what we might call a worldview. We must be cautious here not to assume we will ever encounter unbiased ideas. Such things are like Big…...
Read MoreI don’t know why it has taken me so long to learn a simple phrase that I think is helpful in apologetics. I recently noticed that I was beginning my responses during a Q&A time with expressions like “What makes sense to me” or “What I’ve found compelling is . . ." or “The way I see it is .…...
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