Category Archives: apologetics

Follow the Ethics

Has getting COVID shifted your thinking on vaccines? No. The experience has not been a pleasant one, though the worst of it lasted only a week or so for me. Before contracting COVID and going back to the beginning of … Continue reading

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This Little Piggy Went to Market

Sensitive Internal Memo To: Adam Glom, Executive VP Reaching the World Marketing Corporation From: Simon Magi, VP Mid-East Client Acquisitions RWMC RE: Report on market potential for Joshua Davidson Sir, As requested I have been following the work of Joshua … Continue reading

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The Other Scandal of the Evangelical Mind

It is true enough that by and large the evangelical church is not known for intellectual rigor. We’re not considered the sharpest knives in the drawer. It is true as well that we are called to love God with all … Continue reading

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Absurdism; Catechism 93; Sin, in Heaven?

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What is the “mind of Christ?”

Paul encourages us in his letter to the Philippians, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” As Ben Gutierrez argues in his book The Mind of Christ, the antecedent “this” points backward to what Paul … Continue reading

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Sophisticated Lady

We’ve all heard the horror stories. First there was the church that offered visitors a free oil change during the “service” if you would come. Then we heard of simple cash rewards. More recently a church raffled off a new … Continue reading

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Anything You Can Do

I can do worser. I can do anything worser than you. This is not, of course, reason to boast, but is reason for shame. The worst shame, however, comes when I forget this truth. We find it all too easy … Continue reading

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Forever Friend, Pat Hurd; Curating Books, Screwtape Letters; Google All the Way

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Is there any benefit in studying philosophy?

I certainly hope so. Among my many callings is to teach classes in philosophy. This semester I am teaching Introduction to Ethics, leading my students in understanding the thought of Socrates, John Stuart Mill, Camus and more. Why would I … Continue reading

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Fatalism; Catechism 92; Catholicity not Ecumenicity

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