To what extent should abortion be an issue for Christian voters in the upcoming election? Should it be the sole vote determiner, or just one factor among many, or not an issue at all? I...
I thoroughly recommend Tim Keller’s new book The Reason For God. I am just getting into it, but I can already tell that it is going to be great. The premise of the book, as...
When I was in college I read Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning and was really gripped by it. Frankl (1905-1997) was a Jewish psychiatrist, neurologist, and holocaust survivor. In the book he reflects upon...
Tonight was the second meeting of a class Esther and I are taking together this semester called Marriage and Family Counseling, and since it was also Valentine’s Day, our professor started off the class by...
When I was in college, I did some studies on St. Anselm (handsome fella wasn’t he?), particularly his book Proslogion, where he develops the so-called Ontological Argument for God’s existence. Its very difficult for me...
While sick this past weekend, I picked up Tolkien’s The Hobbit for the first time in years and found so much joy in re-reading it. Does anyone know if (and when) they are making a...
One of the most fascinating thinkers of recent times is Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855), the Danish philosopher and theologian often called “the father of existentialism.” I first discovered Kierkegaard while studying abroad in Britain in...
When I was in college, I struggled with doubt about my faith. Although the reasons for this and the issues at stake were, of course, complicated, there were two doctrines, in particular, which gave me...
My wife got me the BBC’s Planet Earth for Christmas this year. The back cover reads: “With an unprecendented production budget, using high definition photography and revolutionary ultra-high speed cameras, five years in the making,...
