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Your Weekend Worldview Reader

  Here'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).       ⊕  C.S. Lewis: The Reluctant Fundamentalist…...

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C.S. Lewis, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist," Lewis wrote. Some would consider the term misapplied to the British professor. In fact, some Christian leaders in Lewis's lifetime considered him to be liberal. This goes to show we rarely get to choose our labels, they are chosen for us. Lewis's particular crime was his acceptance of historical…...

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Wanda Vision, CMBR, and Creation

The Marvel Universe is expanding. So is the real universe, by the way. The Marvel movie world has been multiplying its outlets with sub-story spinoffs like Wanda Vision in recent history. The real world, on the other hand, has been in a state of expansion since it first exploded into existence. Wanda Vision tells the story Wanda Maximoff, the Avenger,…...

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Mere Caffeination (January 26)

Mere Caffeination is a weekly open forum "coffee talk" at Cedarville University hosted by the Center for Apologetics & Public Christianity. I meet with students in our campus coffee shop to talk about what's going on in the world of worldview. Out of an abundance of caution due to COVID, Mere Caffeination will be online for now - streaming on…...

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Weak Ties, Closed Networks, & Conspiracy Theories

Journalist Amanda Mull laments the loss of seemingly insignificant relationships in her most recent article "The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship" published at The Atlantic. Mull describes the kind of daily acquaintances we once knew. The barista who remembers our usual order, to the guy at the gym who just always seems to be there at the same…...

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The Bible Speaks of Unorthodox Love But Not Loveless Orthodoxy

The theme of love is so pervasive in the New Testament, I don't think someone who consistently ignores it can be well described as orthodox. While the Bible does speak of unorthodox love, it doesn't give a category for a loveless orthodoxy. Love is a major, not minor, doctrine in the epistles. You find it everywhere you look in Paul's…...

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My First Lecture Every Semester for My Theology Course

Every semester I kick of my introduction to theology course with the same lecture. I needed to record it today for a later section, so I fired up ever trustworthy Facebook Live and broadcasted it earlier today. Here it is: ...

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One Tough, Italian Cookie

Toni Jo Terzaghi May 1, 1961 - Jan 11, 2021 Aunt Toni was one tough Italian cookie. She was tough. She was Italian. And she was sweet. But you might not have always picked up on that right away. She had a really good poker face when it came to her sweet side. I think she wanted everyone to know…...

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