Scientific evidence, by itself, will never resolve a worldview dispute. Anyone who claims that scientific evidence proves their worldview right doesn’t understand the nature of evidence or worldviews. A worldview is a network of presuppositions about reality, untested by natural science, and in light of which all experience is interpreted.
Read MoreMaking babies
“I just want you to know that I think you’re a very talented mother.” My friend continued speaking for a moment, and I almost dismissed her seemingly off-handed comment. I was about to begin a very long road trip and supposed that she was simply offering words of encouragement as an extension of her farewell.
Read MoreBranding 101 for the remnant church
One of the greatest statements I heard from Steve Jobs was, “It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them” (Steve Jobs, Business Week, May 25 1998).
Read MoreOh no! Not another genealogy
Genealogies, at least in the scripture sense and usage, are out of fashion these days. By many the past is considered an imposition, its categories too confining for a liberated age, its conceptions irrelevant. And yet the very societies that would cut the umbilical cord of the past bare already suffering the results of their false bids for freedom.
Read MorePain, intellect and the faith experience
Greg was a close friend in late high school years. Our fathers knew each other well and had forged a relationship largely over their study of the Bible and some shared personal struggles. Greg had grown up in a fractured home and had early turned to substance use as a way to escape the chaos of his environment and the emotional pain he found unbearable.
Read MoreThe Bible: book of suggestions
Historically, Protestants have held a high view of the Scriptures. Parents taught children that the Bible was the inspired word of God, and that except for some possible scribal and translational errors (none of which affect any truths or teachings), it was God‘s infallible word to humanity.
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God’s presumptuous gravediggers and the postmodern agenda, Part I
The word “postmodern” is often used to describe the age in which we live as if the hand on a great cosmic clock struck “Postmodern” at the turn of the 20th century. The implication, of course, is that anything that’s not postmodern is outdated.
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