If we don’t think carefully, we will take for granted the assumptions of contemporary culture. And if we expend no effort to seek the truth, eventually we will accept everything the world tells us. In fact, this is the easiest thing we can do—because
no effort is required to accept everything contemporary culture tells us about the past.
By contrast, Christians have a higher duty: to seek the truth, and never let it go.
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Remaking the World by Andrew Wilson: The Dark Ages
After reading Andrew Wilson’s new book “Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West” I struggled to take stock of the many false notions, prejudices, and half-truths I have believed for most of my adult life about the rise of Western Civilization. Wilson, a teaching pastor at King’s College London, offers a well-researched, engagingContinue reading “Remaking the World by Andrew Wilson: The Dark Ages”
The Good Father
If God is both all good and all powerful, how can evil exist?
Spiritual Seekers, Try Christianity First
Christianity has distinctive claims and characteristics that, for the reasonable person, make it the ideal first choice to evaluate.
The Book of Nature
If you spend much time in a good ol’ Bible-believing church, sooner or later you’ll hear that God has revealed Himself in the Bible. We say that God has spoken, and we refer to Holy Scripture as God’s Word. Indeed, God “breathed out” His Word to us through those holy men of old who spokeContinue reading “The Book of Nature”
I, Human
Have you tapped through an “I’m not a robot” test lately? The “reCaptcha” test (Captcha stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), named in part for the computer science pioneer Alan Turing who anticipated the ability of machines to emulate human behavior. As machine learning advances, the variety ofContinue reading “I, Human”
The Role of Women In Christian Growth
I’m delighted to publish a guest post today by a member of our high-school apologetics fellowship, Claire Wilkerson. After reading Chapter 5: “The Role of Women in Christian Growth” of the book The Rise of Christianity by sociologist Rodney Stark, Claire Wilkerson submitted the following essay: The Rise of Christianity by Rodney Stark Chapter 5:Continue reading “The Role of Women In Christian Growth”
Nothing New Under the Sun
As one of the activities for this year’s scholarship competition, I asked volunteers from our high-school apologetics fellowship to write concise summaries of book chapters and post them on my blog. After reading Chapter 6: “Nothing New Under the Sun” of the book Another Gospel? by Alisa Childers, Claire Wilkerson submitted the following essay: NothingContinue reading “Nothing New Under the Sun”
How the Reformation Shaped Your World
As one of the activities for this year’s scholarship competition, I asked volunteers from our high-school apologetics fellowship to select a PragerU video that interested them and write a summary of it to post on my blog. Claire Wilkerson submitted the following essay: How the Reformation Shaped Your World – by Claire Wilkerson It allContinue reading “How the Reformation Shaped Your World”
Friday Feature: The Fact-Value Split: Relativism
If truth is merely relative, it has no claim on me. Therefore, people can say “truth is relative” to justify doing what they want to do—and that’s the idea.