Tag Archives: Truth

“Truth vs. ‘Truth’”

My September Worldview and You column is up now at BreakPoint. It’s on Truth vs. “truths,” including: Possibly the most insidious of all these “truths” is the one that says truths don’t conflict: that we can all live happily together with our various ideas of truth, that it’s impolite to suppose that any of us …

September 6, 2011 – 4:30 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , | Comments Off

“When Christianity becomes lethal”

When I opened up Susan Brooks Thislethwaite’s Washington Post opinion piece, “When Christianity Becomes Lethal,” I was skeptical, to say the least. There is a disturbing tendency among some observers—Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens are great examples—to treat so-called “fundamentalist” religions indiscriminately, as if all are equally prone to violence. That’s nothing but absurd, as …

July 27, 2011 – 10:31 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices, The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (18)

Homosexual Activism: Truth or Confrontations

An AP article run in multiple news sources yesterday says “Some Gay-Rights Foes Claim They Now Are Bullied.” It begins, As the gay-rights movement advances, there is increasing evidence of an intriguing role reversal: Today, it is the conservative opponents of that movement who seem eager to depict themselves as victims of intolerance. To them, …

June 13, 2011 – 11:46 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , | Comments (90)

The Essential Missing Prologue To All Apologetics

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Arrogant Christianity?

The practice of Christian apologetics faces a new and mostly unrecognized hurdle. Although this hurdle’s pieces and parts are familiar to apologists and worldview thinkers, few have recognized their full implications. It is the new fundamental obstacle to listeners’ and readers’ saying “yes” to Jesus Christ and to Christianity, so much so that for many …

December 13, 2010 – 11:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Postmodernism/ Relativism, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (14)

“Truth in the Fire: C.S. Lewis and Pursuit of Truth Today”

Truth In the Fire I have written appreciatively twice of Dallas Willard lately. Now I turn to his article, Truth in the Fire: C.S. Lewis and Pursuit of Truth Today: Publications: The Independent Institute. Originally delivered as a lecture ten years ago at the C.S. Lewis Centennial at Oxford University, this paper springboards from Lewis’s …

June 22, 2008 – 8:24 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)

Jesus: Full of Grace and Truth

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series What Kind of Man Was Jesus?

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.–John 1:14 Jesus–referred to here as “the Word”–came with glory reflecting his Father in heaven. Part of that reflection was in the grace and truth he expressed. …

May 2, 2008 – 3:59 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (7)

“A souvenir from our homeland beyond the material world”

Via Amanda Witt and Wittingshire, a great post on the power and value of art on The Diary of a Former Atheist, including: All beauty and goodness has a living Source. In modern parlance, we call this source “God.” The closer we get to God, the closer we get to perfect joy. We have a …

April 22, 2008 – 3:15 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Views of Truth

This talk on Views of Truth was given on March 9 to the Chapel at Kingsmill. I regret that I had no control over the recording method–the microphone was far from the front of the room, so there’s room noise. It’s still audible and listen-able in spite of that, though.

March 25, 2008 – 3:06 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)