Month: April 2026
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Carl Trueman has a thought-provoking essay here entiled “Playing God, Becoming Nothing.” In a nutshell, he argues that when we attempt to play God, we ultimately destroy ourselves. This is of course the lesson in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein. “when the Promethean act that makes us feel and act…
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In 1979, Air New Zealand was conducting commerical sight-seeing flights to the Antarctic. In November, the final flight of the season, flight 901 crashed in Antarctica in what is known as the “Mount Erebus disaster”, killing everyone onboard (257 people). There is a video here detailing what happened, including actual…
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In 2024, Donald Williams posted an excellent apologetics comment here entitled “Question the Question” wherein he argues the best response in apologetics sometimes is to question the question that is being asked. “Often in apologetics the best response is, “That’s not the right question.” For example, instead of, “Why can’t…
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(From my coming book) For nineteen centuries, Christian apologists were not reluctant to use death in their arguments for the faith. It is instructive to briefly survey the historical apologetic writings of the church. The certitude of death makes it a powerful apologetic that speaks to everyone. The historical church…
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Troy Miller argues here that America’s real crisis is Biblical illiteracy. I think his argument has some merit. “The nation finds itself preoccupied with familiar concerns: political polarization, civic deterioration, institutional distrust, and cultural fragmentation. These are serious realities, but they are not ultimate ones. They are symptoms of a…
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Keith Lowery has a powerful essay here entitled “Say Something” wherein he wrestles with our responsibility to engage a culture freefalling into decay. His experience with young teenagers at a movie theater is shocking. “The cultural decay all around us feels increasingly like a relentless assault, and sometimes I grow…
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Nathan Finn has an essay here worth reading on church-state separation. “Patrick is simply wrong to suggest that the entire concept of separation of church and state is an unconstitutional lie that was concocted to silence people of faith. But he is certainly right to be concerned with how church-state separation…
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I remember hearing a sermon by Ernie Gruen in the mid 1980s that judgment always begins with deception. He used Romans 1:18-32 to justify his argument. Now, some four decades later, he appears to have been frighteningly correct. 2 Thessalonians 2:11 declares that God sends a powerful delusion to those…
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While God’s mercy and forgiveness is unfathomable, it is not perpetually unending. Does Scripture warn that we can pass a point-of-no-return after which God’s judgment becomes inevitable? It certainly seems so. In the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the angels investigate and inform Lot that God sent…
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J. Budziszewski opines here on the esclating pandemic of lunacy infecting the surrounding culture. It’s worth reading in entirety. “The craziness of the culture has become so obvious that, finally, everyone gets it. We don’t need to go into the details of tampon dispensers in boys’ bathrooms. And yet I don’t…
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