Tag Archives: Worldview

New Blogs in 2011: The Point

Here’s another of my favorite new Christian blogs from 2011. Like the last one I featured, I have a personal friendship connection to this one. In this case, though, it’s a group blog with several friends involved: The Point, with John Stonestreet. Amy Hall Brett Kunkle Chris Horst John Stonestreet Jonathan Morrow Mary Jo Sharp …

February 1, 2012 – 3:07 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea, Worth Reading | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

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 , , , | Comments (3)

“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

Jerry Coyne’s Line In the Sand

Yesterday in a very quick post I pointed to an inconsistency in Jerry Coyne’s New Republic article, “Seeing and Believing,” which is a critical review of two new books by the theistic evolutionists Kenneth Miller and Karl Giberson. Today I must mention several things I really appreciate about what he wrote, and offer some suggestions …

February 2, 2009 – 4:24 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (5)

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)

Resources for Christian Thinking

For The Chapel at Kingsmill, where I’ll be speaking this morning, here’s a short resource list for learning more on the topic of the discussion: Books To Start With Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey Kingdom Triangle by J. P. Moreland The Reason for God by Tim Keller God’s Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? by John …

March 9, 2008 – 6:39 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments Off

The Explanation for Everything

My guest column in the Newport News Daily Press appeared again today, under the headline “God answers it all.” It’s on Charles Colson’s provocative assertion that “Christianity is the explanation for everything.” (The above link will disappear in 1-2 weeks, after which you may still access the article in PDF form here.) Because of limited …

February 9, 2008 – 7:29 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments (3)

Naturalistic Evolution: Underdetermined By the Evidence

Reading the NAS book on Science, Evolution, and Creationism, I was struck by the fact that naturalistic evolution is underdetermined by the evidence. That is, one cannot validly conclude, just from evidence in nature, that everything can be explained only and exclusively in terms of natural causes and effects. There is always a background perspective. …

January 14, 2008 – 9:25 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Unfiled | Tagged , , , | Comments (60)