Nudity in Movies

“When I hear Christians say that watching sex scenes in movies does not affect them, I sometimes wonder if the shoe isn’t actually on the other foot. If someone can honestly claim…

The New Couplings

The prospect of humans developing love relationships with computer-programed robots is being heralded by a number of academics as the natural next step in the evolution of both computers and human beings.…

Modesty and Sexual Valuation

In a post on my old blog, I talked about the connection between modesty and fulfillment. Here’s what I observed: Some women have told me that modesty is important to them, not…

A Teleological Odyssey: Homer’s Ethical Realism and Odysseus’ Emotional Labors

“The implicit epistemology of the heroic world is a thoroughgoing realism.” Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (p. 129). “Suppose we were wanderers who could not live in blessedness except at home, miserable in…

Dorothy Sayers, Gnosticism and the Problem of the Body

This post has been removed following its publication in the Volume 29, Issue 1 of Touchstone Magazine.    

Elder Joachim Parr’s Teleological Ethics

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…

Beware of ‘Presuppositional Apologetics’

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…

Anthropology and Worship

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…

A Must-Watch Video on Daylight Savings Time

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…

Spring 2015 Salvo Goes to Press

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…

Righteousness

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…

Ambient Overload

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…



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