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…

Debate on Justification Between N.T. Wright and James White

Last night I listened to this fascinating debate about justification by Tom Wright and James White. They discuss the ‘New Perspective on Paul’ and the role of synergy in salvation. What came…

Pragmatism and the Liberal Arts

From ‘More than Schooling  The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts‘ “The pragmatic approach to the liberal arts sees their value as deriving primarily from specific quantifiable ends,…

ISIS and the Enigma of Modernity

In the recently printed Spring 2015 edition of Salvo magazine, I have a feature in the Society section, in which I talk about the relationship of ISIS terrorism to the modern world. Drawing…

Light from the Christian West: Aquinas and Eastern Orthodoxy

Marcus Plested has done some important work to try to correct the tendency among Eastern Orthodox Christians to look upon Thomas Aquinas as the arch-villein of Western theology. In fact, he has…

The Task of Christian Parents is to Teach the Loveliness of the Faith

In my 2011 series ‘The Canterbury Letters‘ (of which I have only recently revealed myself to be the author), I made some observations about Christian parenting that may be helpful as a…

The Internet and Disembodiment

From my article ‘Marriage Between Humans and Robots (Part 4): customized intimacy and social narcisism‘ In 1997, Douglas Groothuis warned that the internet’s ability to deny both the user’s body (by focusing…

Calvin vs. Leithart

As I’ve gradually been moving posts from my old blog over to this new platform, I revisited my reply to Leithart’s article on the end of Protestantism (which is now available on…



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