The Abstraction of God and the Culture Wars (Nominalism 7)

This article was originally published in my column at the Colson Center. It is republished here with permission. For a complete directory of all my Colson Center articles, click here. Last week…

Culture and Neuroplasticity

One of the themes I’ve been exploring in some of my Salvo articles is how our brains change based on interactions with our social environment. In my Salvo article ‘The Neuro Transformers’…

Our Disembodied Selves

Having written about the decline in social attentiveness and empathy that seems to be encouraged by our digital preoccupations, I was fascinated to read an article today by Brett and Kate McKay…

Sherry Turkle on Being Alone Together

One of the books I’m reading right now is Sherry Turkle’s 2012 book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. I wanted to read this book to…

Why Household Appliances Haven’t Made Life Easier For Women

One of the things I said I would do with this new blog is to give my readers regular updates on what I’m reading. I’ll start the ball rolling by sharing something…

Joseph Smith: Only in 19th Century America

Two weeks ago some Mormon missionaries came to visit. Because I was making dinner and cleaning up the kitchen, I wasn’t really in a frame of mind to talk. So I sat…

Consumerism is Damaging Families, Christian Voice Researchers Discover

From Christian Voice: Global consumer culture is destroying the family, Christian Voice researchers have discovered. The net effect of a culture that prioritizes material prosperity above all else is that family relationships…

Aquinas, Ockham and the Power of Ideas

Part 1 of a series on Nominalism originally posted at Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint website. • • • “So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the…

Darwin was Wrong

From Salvo issue #21, “Culture & the Malleability of the Human Brain”: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason,” wrote Robert Jastrow in God and…

Dicussion Guide for Ham/Nye Debate on Creation vs. Evolution (Part 3)

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 In reacting against the scepter of an anti-intellectual ‘Christian fundamentalism’, many Christians are unthinkingly capitulating to the wisdom of our…

Discussion Guide For Ham/Nye Debate (Part 2)

This article was originally published in my column at the Colson Center. It is republished here with permission. For a complete directory of all my Colson Center articles, click here. “In the…

Discussion Guide for Ham/Nye Debate on Creation vs. Evolution (Part 1)

This article was originally published in my column at the Colson Center. It is republished here with permission. For a complete directory of all my Colson Center articles, click here.  “In the…



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