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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In Robert MacFarlane’s article ‘Landspeak‘, he describes some of the changes being made in the Oxford Junior Dictionary. A sharp-eyed reader noticed that there had been a culling of words concerning nature. Under…
From my Colson Center article ‘The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars‘: In talking about sexual morality, it is typical to find pastors, Christian spokespersons and lay people alike, operating as…
From my article ‘The New Couplings: Are Human & Robot Weddings Next?‘: “Sociable robots promise to avoid the messiness of flesh-and-blood relationships through a kind of ‘customized intimacy.’ Imagine having a relationship…
I have written before about how the way we use our brain actually alters its neurocircuitry. But the same principle also applies to culture. We now know that cultural assumptions, norms and…
