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…

School Deform

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…

Advent Articles

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…

Building Christendom

Joseph Smith: Profile of a False Prophet?

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…

Where ‘Relevance’ and Isolation Meet

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’…

Loving Kids

From my post ‘Nine Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Parenting Teenagers‘: Raising children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord is more about letting the fruit of the…

Robot Marriages on Their Way to You!

You may think the advertizement above is a joke. And you wouldn’t be wrong…for now. The above fake ad was inspired by real events, including the words of various academics concerning the…

My Graduate Studies, Icons of Christ and Faith in All Its Amplitude

Many of you know that I am currently completing the final stages of a PhD in historical theology through King’s College. Having been homeschooled and then having led a fairly sheltered and…



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