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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
I am delighted to announce that the Winter 2014 edition of Salvo is now hot off the press. My own contribution to the magazine comes in the form of a devastating critique…
With the Advent (Nativity) season now upon us, it seems appropriate to share some articles I wrote a few years ago on the advent theme. Here are the links: Celebrating Advent in…
When we moved to North Idaho, I began to experience something new: LDS missionaries began knocking on my door. I quickly tried to bring myself up to scratch on Mormon beliefs so that I could intelligently converse…
From my article ‘Gnosticism in the Work Place‘: “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’…
