Elder Joachim Parr has so many good teaching videos on Youtube. On one level his teaching is very simple, but on another level it is incredibly deep and profound. One of the…
From my Colson Center article ‘The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars‘: Creation expresses God’s nature; as such, the ordering of reality creates the context in which God’s commands can be…
From The Canterbury Letters: If we have a cognitivist anthropology of the human person, then we will see the job of the minister as being first and foremost to educate a person’s…
It’s been over a week since we had daylight savings time, but people are still complaining to me about the effect of the time-change on their sleeping rhythms. The video below explains…
Salvo 32 (Spring 2015) has gone to press and should be in your mailboxes in the next few days. Those who do not subscribe to this magazine can read a number of…
A Protestant leader once told me (he later changed his mind) that although Christians have a legal or judicial (“imputed”) righteousness through the work of Christ, it is false that Christ gives…
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, has an interesting post on his blog about the difference between situational overload and ambient overload. Failure to…
There is currently a trend to pit the relational aspect of Christianity against the structural and ecclesiastical connotations, with the term ‘religion’ being emblematic of the latter. As you’ve probably heard people…
From my article ‘Gnosticism in the Workplace‘ Viewing the physical order as spiritually neutral can lead to the “seeker-friendly” posture of accommodation and compromise (what Hunter describes as the “‘relevance to’ paradigm”…
From ‘Fiction and the Christian Faith‘ One of the important functions of story is that it allows us to vicariously participate in experiences that are not our own, and to gain wisdom…
I had never owned any type of smartphone or tablet and all my electronic needs had always been taken care of by my laptop. However, earlier in the year I purchased an…
