Monthly Archives: October 2009

Christ’s Light Shining

For a recent talk at the Chapel at Kingsmill I spoke of Christians shining our light so that people may see and glorify our Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16). I used an extended historical illustration of Christianity and women’s issues: something that not all recognize to be one of Christianity’s great contributions to world history. …

October 6, 2009 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Life and Choices | Comments Off

“Francis de Sales on Christian Blogging”

This comes from one of my new favorite bloggers, Jennifer Fulwiler, who says this about herself: Five years ago I had never once believed in God, not even as a child. I was a content atheist and thought it was simply obvious that God did not exist. I thought that religion and reason were incompatible, …

October 4, 2009 – 7:43 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Comments (5)

Magic or God?

This has come up often enough now to merit its own discussion: the pejorative use of “magic” to describe what God does. The most recent was this morning: Just my two cents, I consider the swoon theory among the least likely hypotheses concerning the events leading up to the emergence of Christianity as a religion. …

October 4, 2009 – 7:15 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Comments (42)

Evidences for the Empty Tomb

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Evidences for the Resurrection

I continue my survey of historical evidences for Jesus’ resurrection with an outline of evidences for the empty tomb. This is part of a continuing set of cumulative evidences, not intended to be complete in itself but to be read as part of the series on Evidences for the Resurrection. I am using William Lane …

October 3, 2009 – 8:49 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Tagged , | Comments (155)

Why Blogging Has Been Slow

I’m actually sitting down to work on a new blog post this morning. I have done so few lately—and in particular it has been so long since I’ve picked up my series on the resurrection—I thought I should preface it with this. In the past three weeks or so I have traveled to three different …

October 3, 2009 – 7:33 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Comments (2)

Outrageous Government Censorship of Religious Speech

First question: What on earth could Maine have been thinking?! Bangor, ME - Today the Christian Action Network (CAN) filed a federal lawsuit against the state of Maine for censoring a fundraising letter state officials claimed contained “an inflammatory anti-Muslim message.” Maine officials fined and banned CAN from mailing any future letters under the threat of criminal …

October 2, 2009 – 12:14 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture | Comments (1)