Dr. R. Scott Smith, professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at BIOLA University, once told me that he took his daughter to the grocery store when she was young to introduce her to the concept of universals and particulars, or the unity and diversity we see all around us. […]
Before I enrolled in the apologetics master’s program at BIOLA, I had never heard Christians speak of God’s existence as a probability. I was flummoxed from Day 1. In our class lectures and discussion forums, I was introduced to a new way of talking about God. Instead of speaking about […]
The following is an extract taken from the address “Uses of Astronomy”, presented by Edward Everett at the inauguration of the Dudley Observatory, at Albany, N.Y. (1856) It is a beautiful example of how words can paint pictures in our mind. It’s also an extended example of an Argument from […]
We hear a lot about love in the springtime and yet, most people cannot define it. Contemporary culture issues proclamations such as “Love is Love”, which is unhelpful and places the concept at the mercy of limitless subjective interpretations. How can we recapture the meaning of the word? Thankfully, God […]
During a 2 week quarantine, I decided to create the frilliest, fanciest Valentine’s Day decoration I could make using supplies I had on hand. Happily, I had saved 2 heart-shaped candy boxes from last year, and I found a large-ish piece of cardboard and white packing foam in the recycling […]
Writing to his art dealer in 1898, Gauguin proclaimed: “…I have finished a philosophical work on a theme comparable to that of the Gospel.”[1] At first glance, Gauguin’s celebrated painting doesn’t appear to fit such a description, but a deeper look reveals more. Paul Gauguin attended Catholic boarding school in […]
What’s all this Jazz about souls? We know Jazz musicians have soul, but Disney takes the idea to the extreme using a pianist’s death to tackle two of the most important questions in human history: Do we have souls? What happens after we die? Here’s a brief summary of the […]
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Hip-hop is not my preferred genre of music in general but I stay in tune with popular culture. The rapper known as NF caught my attention a few years ago because his lyrics didn’t contain the profanity typically heard in his category. As I listened to his music, I noticed […]