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Book Review: Conservatism, a Rediscovery
Book Review: Conservatism, a Rediscovery Hazony, Yoram, Regenery Gateway, 2022, ISBN 978-1-68451-109-9, eISBN 978-1-68451-110-5 (Caveat: I cover not just the material in the book but do editorialize some. This is because I find this era fascinating and challenging....
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Book Review
Book Review: Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism
This book should be read as a conversation. While they all agree that scientism has a place the dialogue is constructed around what the place is and the reach it has into areas outside the natural sciences.
Book Review: What Are We Doing Here? Essays
Think of it as a correction to bad history plus a threaded connection of events and ideas that have driven history. Enjoy the read. You will be richer for it.
Christianity & Society
The Political Commitment: Thoughts on Being Evangelical in an Election Cycle
First, this is neither an endorsement of any party, personality, or philosophy. It is rather a set of questions that intends to help you the reader think through your political commitments. This is something many do on a general level and understand the overall...
The Final Christian Generation in America
Affluence has turned even our churches into consumerist ventures. I’m afraid that the church in America needs replanted.
Being Christian in the Age of Conservatism
You've heard the complaint: Conservatives are only concerned about God and guns. As President Obama phrased, it, "guns and religion." It may be in a way true. Conservatism is about protecting things of value. Conservatism protects liberty, including religious liberty....
Ethics
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Crafts
Kitchen Cabinet Door Conversion
We wanted to update the kitchen. At the same time we knew that we did NOT want the cheaply-built cabinets from the big-box home stores. They're just not good quality cabinetry. And at the time my woodworking skills were still in their infancy. (I was surprised at the...
Calling a PHP routine from Javascript
First, you can’t do it, at least not directly. That’s because PHP code never makes it to the client and Javascript executed on the client rather than on the server. What is needed is a way to bridge the two. For that you can thank the AJAX principle – doing remote...
Theology
Hermeneutics: Christ and Sexual Infidelity
The passage of primary concern here is the woman caught in adultery. The story beings John 8: But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach them....
Hermeneutics: Interpreting Matthew 7:21-23
This is a passage that takes people in all sorts of directions. I've never heard an inaccurate interpretation of the passage but I've never heard a sermon on the passage that treats it contextually. There's a great weight to the context of the Sermon on the Mount...
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Apologetics
Can Science Inform Theology? A question for the ages
In short the answer is Yes. But it is a qualified Yes. So let's spend some time exploring the question. First let’s be certain that we are using these terms in the same way. By “informs” I am not saying that theology develops out of science. To do so would mean a...
Theism vs Evolution: Are We Asking the Right Question?
That's the challenge for many apologists. But it's not the challenge that they think about. It is my suspicion that the question is more involved that people have considered. The first thing that comes to mind is the choices: Do I go with some form of Darwinism? Or...
The Question of Faith: A Concern About Modern Apologetics
The Christian "faith" is centered around the God of the universe and the work of Christ on behalf of a fallen race. These are axiomatic to being Christian belief about reality. These matters are propositions about faith but do not define faith. They are the target...
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Science
The Scientific Orthodoxy of Common Core, From the Ohio Common Core Proposal
Many years ago it was stated categorically that “nothing in science makes sense except in the light of evolution.” This was Theodore Dobzhansky in 1973.[1] This statement, the title of the article itself, represents several important concepts, two of which we...
Framing Darwin in History
The suggestion has been made that nobody thinks original thoughts. Feyerabend identified the whole of history and culture in which one lives as the source for thought. At the same time VanTil was pursuing the idea that our fallen nature prohibited us from having a...
Essay
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