“If God takes human dignity and freedom seriously, then when man decides to plant corn, he won’t bring up strawberries.”[1] I heard this quote in a lecture recently and I began to think of ways to help our children think more deeply as we plant seeds down into the soil […]
The Dutch apologist, Cornelius Van Til, made a fascinating apologetic argument from our use of simple sentences. He said every time we predicate we presuppose the God of the Bible. What does that mean? In grammar class, we learned that a predicate is anything that can be said about a […]
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 […]
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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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 he was communicating ideas about the human struggle and the key questions of human existence. On his fourth […]
As we suffer to different degrees during the pandemic, Lois Lowry’s The Giver recalls a familiar quandary. The story is set in a dystopian society where disease, suffering, and death have been eliminated and the problem of pain has been solved. How? By the elimination of free choice. For the […]