In Defense of Reason
“Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.” (attributed to Martin Luther) Although it seems that Luther may not have been quite the anti-rationalist...
View ArticleRationalism and the Problem of Evil
Still image from the film '21 Grams' “The centre of me is always and eternally a terrible pain–a curious wild pain–a searching for something beyond what the world contains.” – Bertrand Russell All too...
View ArticleBeauty Will Save the World
“If the too obvious, too straight branches of Truth and Good are crushed or amputated and cannot reach the light–yet perhaps the whimsical, unpredictable, unexpected branches of Beauty will make their...
View ArticleRedemption
“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as...
View ArticleSlippin’ on Slopes
The old slippery slope. First, the initial kernel of compromise: He leaves the church in which he was raised–the “best” church, the only “orthodox” church, the only “doctrinally pure” church. Next, he...
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