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…
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…
