If you do a Google search, ask a friend, or simply exist on Facebook, you'll find a whole host of voices telling you that - statistically - your individual vote doesn't matter in the grander scheme. For instance, this article asserts that your vote making a difference is statistically "very improbable, because for your vote to … Continue reading Does Your Vote Matter, Statistically? Yes, It Does.
Within the past 40 years or so a [relatively] new type of program has cropped up in education, that of the DMin, the Doctor of Ministry. The degree surged in popularity for a few decades, began to fall to the wayside (so much so that Princeton discontinued its DMin program), but has kept a somewhat … Continue reading What is a D.Min (Doctor of Ministry)?
With his life spanning the later half of the 19th Century, Oscar Wilde wrote in a wide variety of mediums, ranging from poetry to plays and from essays to fairy tales, and one novel. His fairy tales are arguably the most accessible of his writings, and as is the case with fairy tales revolve around … Continue reading Book Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray – By Oscar Wilde
C.S. Lewis is one of those authors I can always turn to when in need of a good read. The goal of this book is pretty self-explanatory by the title: to address the problem of pain. More specifically, the goal of this text is to solve the intellectual problem of suffering; this is important, as … Continue reading Book Review: The Problem of Pain – By C.S. Lewis
In recent news, Congress has passed a bill (S.3346) which is being hailed as "a solid commitment" towards the goal of having a manned mission to mars within the next 25 years. The bipartisan bill authorized a budget increase for NASA, taking their total budget up to "$19.5 billion." This raises the question in many minds: Is there any biblical justification … Continue reading FATQ: Is there any biblical justification for exploring space?
In On Liberty the Nineteenth Century British philosophy John Stuart Mill wrote that "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as … Continue reading Book Review: Arminian Theology – By Roger E. Olson
Over the past few years I've read almost every work written by Chesterton. This book, however, stands above the others as having been my first glimpse into his paradoxical yet brilliant mind. I was first exposed to it in a video-game, Deus Ex, which coincidentally turns out to be one of the greatest video-games ever created … Continue reading Book Review: The Man Who Was Thursday – By G.K. Chesterton
When this book was first written in the late 80's the phenomena of spousal abuse within the Christian home was something that was unheard of - not because it didn't happen, but because it was something that the church as a body was either not aware of, refused to confront, or in some cases had … Continue reading Book Review: Battered Into Submission – By James & Phyllis Alsdurf
It is very rare that an author comes along who can pierce straight to the heart of an issue, who can state just what needs to be stated in just the way in which it needs to be said. Yet this is just what John Eldredge does with his analysis into the soul of man. … Continue reading Book Review: Wild at Heart – By John Eldredge
The Great Heresies is Hilaire Belloc's concise survey of what he deems to be the five chief heresies (and models of heresy) in the history of the [Catholic] Church. 'Heresy' in this sense for Belloc is defined as "the dislocation of some complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some … Continue reading Book Review: The Great Heresies – By Hilaire Belloc
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