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Category Archives: Apologetics
To Have a Child and Other Transformations: Falling in Love
Several years ago, a Wall Street Journal article (the link is here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-it-possible-to-reason-about-having-a-child-1378507807) explained how it’s impossible to make a rational decision about whether to have a child. Allison Gopnik, a mother herself, contrasted the decision to have a child with … Continue reading
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No Pit So Deep: Jesus’ Descent into Our Pain
“There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper.” These are the words of Corrie ten Boom’s sister, Betsie, in the former’s autobiography, The Hiding Place. Betsie is dying from the horrible conditions of the Ravensbruck concentration camp, where … Continue reading
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Angels and Demons, Part II
In my last post, I outlined how the Evil One or demons tempt us to sin. But sometimes the demonic works through doubt, division, discouragement, or confusion rather than specific temptations. I was in a prayer meeting music ministry for years. Unfailingly, … Continue reading
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God the CEO
An image of God I’ve been running up against lately is “God the CEO”. In this view, God isn’t quite as far removed from our daily lives as with Deism (in which God is the Watchmaker Who started off the … Continue reading
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The New Atheism – Part II
As I noted in “The New Atheism – Part I”, one of the New Atheism’s most striking flaws is its inability to account for the essential elements of being human. For example, one retreat director noted that, after an arduous … Continue reading
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The New Atheism – Part I
My son and I have had many conversations on the “new atheism”, whose main proponents are Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Many aspects of the new atheism are alarming, chief being how rapidly it has spread and how widely and … Continue reading
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