On 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…...
Read MoreOne of our family's favorite animated Christmas movies is Arthur Christmas. It tells the funny tale of an inter-generational Santa Claus show down. There's a great scene that illustrates the gospel. See if you can spot it in the clip below. "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become…...
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). ⊕ Was C.S. Lewis the Grinch? ⊕ The…...
Read MoreCharles Dickens is an author who needs no introduction. Those who may not know him well likely still know of his more popular works, particularly A Christmas Carol. Even my children know him indirectly through the Disney character Scrooge McDuck. And something even those more familiar with Dickens might not realize is that he penned a version of the Gospel…...
Read More"If there were less good will,” C. S. Lewis often said in December correspondence, “then we might have more peace on earth.” Lewis found no pleasure in the giving of generic winter cards, gift guilting, and the overall hurried pace of the Christmas season. Lewis went from saying “I hope I am not a Scrooge” in a letter in 1952…...
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