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20 Reasons why Christians should care for the Environment

Christians should be the best environmentalists on the planet, because we uniquely understand what the environment is, what has gone wrong with it, what is being done to fix it, and what our role is...

March 8, 200810 Comments

Is abortion important?

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...

March 4, 20083 Comments

Keller’s new book

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...

February 26, 20087 Comments

Frankl, the holocaust, and meaning

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...

February 21, 20085 Comments

Awesome Valentine’s day

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...

February 15, 20085 Comments

The Hobbit

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...

January 24, 20086 Comments

Hell, Doubt, and Surrender

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...

January 12, 20083 Comments

Planet Earth

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,...

January 3, 20084 Comments