Relationship and Religion

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…

Fundamentalism and Secularism

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”…

How Reading Stories Can Make us Wise

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…

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Burdening the Short-term Memory with Distractions

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…

Love and Human Identity

From my article ‘George MacDonald and The Anthropology of Love‘ …human identity is not first and foremost a question of doctrines (what we think) like the rationalists would maintain, nor is it…

Distractions

“In raising awareness about distractions, part of the problem is that most people tend to see the problem of distractions as being purely about time rather than about the burden they create…

Ken Ham and the “Natural Reading of Scripture”

From my Colson Center article about Ken Ham’s Faulty Hermeneutics: Ken Ham is part of a larger tradition (limited mainly to American fundamentalism) that finds it difficult to acknowledge that the young-earth…

Gnosticism Within the Evangelical Church

I used to teach history at a private Christian school. Like many schools in the classical education movement, we couldn’t afford our own building and had to rent from a church. One…

Immodesty and Sexual Desensitization

From Nudity and the Christian Worldview (Part 1): In discussing modesty with young people, I often get a response that goes something like this: “Women who wear bikinis are not trying to…

The First Steps Towards an Appreciation of Liberal Arts

From my Touchstone article ‘More than Schooling: The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts‘ Appreciating that some artifacts are good in themselves, and not merely because of what…

Reading Material Online Goes into a Different Part of the Brain than Reading Physical Material

“Studies have shown that reading printed material goes into a different part of your brain than the material we read online. Specifically, when we read online, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the…



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