Democratizing Beauty

From my Colson Center article ‘Liberation from Embodiment: How the Modern World Wages War Against the Female Body‘: “Commercialism dehumanizes us through industries and technologies that democratize our concept of beauty. In…

Surrendering to Art

From ‘Literary Criticism and the Biblical Worldview (Part 2)‘ Just as a Christian approach to literature involves enjoying literary works for their own sake regardless of any functional value, so it also…

Distinguishing Interpretation from Application

From ‘Literary Criticism and Postmodernism‘: Sadly, many Christians have succumbed to a Postmodern approach to scripture. You may have been at a Bible study before where it is the custom to go…

Classical Liberalism vs. Modern Liberalism

From ‘Free Speech and Islam‘: “Classical liberalism, for all its limitations, was at least committed to defending individual freedom against the encroachments of state power. That is, after all, why it was…

The Freedom to be Bad

From ‘Anti-Discrimination Laws (Part 2)‘ The non sequitur move from “X is wrong” to “X should be illegal” usually hinges on the implicit notion that it is the State’s job to redesign…

Literature and Relativity

From ‘Literary Criticism and Postmodernism‘: Postmodernism has brought us to a position where many academics truly believe that the meaning of a text remains completely inaccessible to the reader. Literary criticism is…

Imagination and Education

From my article ‘School Deform How Common Core Promotes Cultural Engineering by Killing the Imagination‘ To cultivate learning without cultivating the imagination is to create automatons, for it is through the imagination…

Parenting is like Gardening

From ‘9 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Parenting Teenagers‘: Over a decade ago when I was struggling with parenting issues, I wrote to a well-known author for advice on…

James Jordan’s Iconoclasm and the Legitimacy of Images in Worship

In my Canterbury Letters, I interacted with a Calvinist who believed that icons were idolatrous, especially when used in worship. During the process of this dialogue I responded to the iconoclastic arguments…

The Role of Aesthetics in Christian Apologetics

From ‘The Task of Christian Parents is to Show the Loveliness of the Faith‘: “Our apologetics must not be merely intellectual, occupied with the Big Questions of the universe and its origins.…

The Ubiquitous Nature of the Internet

From ‘Marriage Between Humans and Robots (Part 4)’: “…as new hand-held devices have enabled the internet to become ubiquitous and seamlessly integrated into normal life, what we find is that ordinary life…

Creation and Literature

From my article ‘The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars‘: “Overemphasizing the noetic effects of sin and underestimating the reality of common grace has enormous ramifications in how we approach pagan…



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