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“Deepest Feelings” or Right and Wrong?

I didn’t catch this exactly enough to quote it all, but it went something like this. Mark Halperin was on one of the morning shows this morning, discussing the (apparently) surprising pushback the Obama administration has been getting this week, since announcing there would be only narrow exceptions to the new federal requirement that insurers …

February 7, 2012 – 2:44 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Ethics, Knowing God, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged Abortifacients, Belief, Ethics, Facts, Feelings, Knowing God, Knowledge, Opinion, Truth, Values | Comments (14)

Lessons from MLK

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s debt to theology and natural law: Those who praise the modern civil rights movement, but who also want to keep morality and theology absent from public discourse, seldom mention King’s reliance on natural law in his justly famous letter. Scholars such as the late John Rawls were at great pains to …

January 16, 2012 – 6:30 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change | Tagged Civil Rights, Jr., Martin Luther King, MLK, Moral Realism, Morality, natural law, Theology | Comments (2)

“Why Christianity Lost America”

I don’t have time to comment on this, and I’m not sure what I would add to it if I did, but you must read Vishal Mangalwadi’s article, Why Christianity Lost America. Christianity lost America because 20th-century evangelicalism branded itself as the party of faith. By default Secularism (science, university, media) became the party of …

December 27, 2011 – 6:19 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement, The Faith | Comments (44)

A Christmas Reflection: Incarnation, Mission, and Worldview

Here’s a completely different kind of Christmas reflection for you: my BreakPoint column, Incarnation, Mission, and Worldview. It begins, It was about a dozen years ago that our church’s pastor came back from a pastors’ conference and told us our denomination was growing rapidly everywhere in the world except North America. We were shrinking here, …

December 22, 2011 – 3:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Service, The Faith, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged Christmas, Incarnation, Mission, Worldview | Comments (3)

Something In the Air: Science’s Supposed Superiority to Religion – 2

To borrow a line from Vox Day, this pair of sentences is so superlatively wrong that it will require the development of esoteric mathematics operating simultaneously in multiple dimensions fully to comprehend the orders of magnitude of its wrongness. That was Timothy McGrew’s opinion of the email a reader named Loren sent me earlier this …

December 20, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement, New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged Christianity, Conflict Thesis, Galileo, Knowledge, Proof, Religion, Science, Secularism | Comments (40)

The Electronic Student and the Bible: Learning In Community

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series The Electronic Student

A college dormitory floormate of mine named Dan took part in all of our dorm Bible studies and prayer times. One day in a Bible study our group’s leader was explaining the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ beliefs. Their first problem, he said, is that they don’t believe Christ was God. Dan spoke up and said, “He wasn’t.” …

December 10, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, Intellectual Engagement, Thinking Christianly | Tagged Accordance, Bible, Commentaries, Doctrine, History, Logos, Study, The Way International | Comments (0)

A Taste of New Mystery: Take 2

A couple of days ago I wrote A Taste of New Mystery: Thomism and Intelligent Design. I had thought that some discussion on the topic of the blog post might ensue, but it didn’t. I suppose it could be that the reductio approach I offered is completely uninteresting to everyone. It may be that the …

December 3, 2011 – 11:04 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement, Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Tagged Behe, Dembski, Discovery Institute, Edward Feser, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mechanism, Philosophy, Reductio ad Absurdum, Science, Strategy, Thomas Aquinas, Thomists | Comments (21)

Plantinga: There’s No Good Argument For Design, But Who Needs One?

Book Review There are heavyweights in Christian philosophy, and there is Alvin Plantinga, whose name virtually never comes up without the descriptor, “most influential Christian philosopher of our generation.” In his latest book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, he comes to a surprising conclusion about Intelligent Design. To put it perhaps …

November 27, 2011 – 7:22 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Intellectual Engagement, Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Tagged Behe, Book Review, Christian, Dawkins, Epistemology, Fine-Tuning, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Plantinga, Religion, Science | Comments (114)

The Electronic Student: Bible Study (Black Friday Edition)

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series The Electronic Student

The Internet is the best and worst thing that could have happened to serious study, I wrote last time in this series. The benefit is in the sheer quantity of information available. The chief problem is distraction. There are other risks, including that of becoming a Google scholar. Studying the Bible on computer is another …

November 25, 2011 – 8:55 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Bible, Intellectual Engagement, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged Accordance, Bible, Bible Study, Black Friday, Computer, Logos, Sword Project | Comments (1)

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