No wonder the debate is so difficult: When it comes to worldview and marriage, our differences run deep. See my most recent Worldview and You column at BreakPoint.
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The Worldview Clash in the Marriage Debate
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013Continuing my series on Biblical and Secular Reasons for Man-Woman Marriage, I want to put it in context of the underlying worldview clash in the marriage debate. It is a background issue, rarely brought to the surface, hardly ever discussed, yet with intensely practical applications.
Marriage Is …
This debate runs deep. It goes straight to the core of worldview. I’ll illustrate that with an example. The position most advocates for man-woman marriage take is that there is something that marriage is, and that …
The Deeper Issue in the Marriage Debate
Thursday, April 18th, 2013Troubling though it is, today’s marriage controversy is a symptom of something even deeper and in the end more troubling yet. It is the loss of connection to what is transcendent and true. For each person there is tragedy enough in the loss of life in God that this represents. For the culture it signals the loss of a different kind of life: that of a community united in pursuit of what is true and good.
I do mean that any human society ever attained …
Think Christianly by Jonathan Morrow
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013Book Review
Think Christianly: Looking at the Intersection of Faith and Culture by Jonathan Morrow
I have an all-too-large “guilt shelf,” which is what I call the list of books I know I should be reading. They’re books that I want to read—that’s why I have them—but I can’t seem to get to all of them as quickly as I would like. Think Christianly has been on that list for several months. The timing …
Tagged As: Apologetics, Arts and Culture, Bible, Christianity In Action, Ethics, Intellectual Engagement, Knowing God, Life and Choices, New Atheism, Origins and Science, Postmodernism and/or Relativism, Service, Thinking Christianly, Worldview, Worth Reading
Ron P.’s Spiritual Journey
Saturday, January 5th, 2013Early in December I invited atheists and skeptics to tell their stories here, the idea being that if we see each other as real people, we are much more likely—even on the Internet!—to treat each other as real people.
Ron P. sent me an email with this. I appreciate him sharing this with us.
BEGIN I suppose I will start at the beginning. I grew up in a nominally Christian home in a fairly typical middle class American household, where weekly church attendance was …
Ray Ingles’ “Non-Faith Journey”
Thursday, December 13th, 2012Last week I invited atheist and skeptical readers to tell their non-faith stories. The idea was that if we had some idea of the person behind the discussion, we might have a better shot at really treating one another as humans.
Ray Ingles sent me this. There are others, which I’ll post here at the rate of no more than two per week.
It should be obvious enough that Ray Ingles’ views do not represent mine, or Christianity in general.
BEGIN
My parents were …
Apologetics: Fighting Last Year’s Battles, Last Year’s Way
Monday, November 12th, 2012When I led the True Reason project earlier this year, I did it because I thought it would do good to show how weak New Atheist leaders are in reasoning, even as they try to feature it as their great strength. I think the book has probably done a lot of good. I hope so, anyway.
But I am coming to see that it’s a skirmish being fought on an old battlefield. It’s last year’s war. Probably last decade’s. That fight isn’t over, and …
Tagged As: Apologetics, Core, Intellectual Engagement, Life and Choices, Strategic Ministry, Thinking Christianly, Worldview
God Is King. Your Vote Still Matters
Tuesday, November 6th, 2012Last Saturday my college, Michigan State, lost a painfully close football game when Nebraska scored a touchdown with six seconds to play. That score would not have possible apart from a referee’s flagrantly bad pass interference call in the end zone moments earlier. It was one of many bad calls during that game, going both ways.
I get pretty wrapped up in Spartan football. I had to get out of the house and go somewhere to calm down. I asked my son to drive; it …
Of Course Atheists Have Meaning and Value—Just No Good Way To Explain It
Thursday, October 4th, 2012Atheists often confuse Christians’ position on meaning and value. The typical version, as it comes from atheists’ mouth, is, “Christians say you don’t have meaning or value unless you believe in God. But that’s obviously false! I don’t believe in God, and I have no trouble finding meaning and value in my life.”
This morning’s post is a comment that ran away from me. I was responding to Otto Telick’s comment last night, when I realized my response was suitable for a new blog …
Tagged As: Atheism, Evolution, Naturalism, New Atheism, Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly, Worldview
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