I saw a disturbing play last weekend.  It was disturbing because it spoke the truth about the condition of man.  Extinction is the story of two men who, for a decade since their friendship began in college, have met annually in Atlantic City to revel in all the drugs, gambling, and women the city has [...]

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Obama’s health advisor, Ezekiel Emanuel, explains his philosophy on the kind of rules that ought to be created for health care rationing:
True reform, he argues, must include redefining doctors’ ethical obligations…. Dr. Emanuel argues that to make such [rationing] decisions, the focus cannot be only on the worth of the individual. He proposes adding the [...]

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Today is the big 2-5-0 for William Wilberforce.  He’s been one of my most favorite people ever since I read his book, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes in This Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity (1797).  Okay, yes, they had long titles back then.  [...]

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I had an interesting experience when I read the chapter in God Is the Gospel that opened with the idea that “Good news is for proclaiming–for heralding the way an old-fashioned town crier would do.”  This was followed by a word picture intended to portray the proclamation of said good news:
Hear ye!  Hear ye!  All [...]

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Earlier this week, I guest blogged over at Caffeinated Thoughts on this question:
[P]redictions [from the Left] of resource depletion leading to disaster have still not come true.  The question is, why do they continue to wrongly predict these things?  What is behind this mistake?  What are they missing?
The gist of my answer (which I owe [...]

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In John Loftus’s book, Why I Became an Atheist, he quotes “exbeliever,” one of his fellow bloggers, who gives the clearest, most accurate illustration I’ve seen to describe the mindset of outspoken atheists toward God and Christianity.  I’m going to quote it here because I think this is the most important thing to keep in [...]

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If the physical aspects of this world are all that ever is, was, or will be, beauty is really just an illusion.  We have physical responses to certain things (like, say, the Grand Canyon, or “goodness,” or a “purpose” fulfilled well)–responses that were bred into us over time in order to increase our chances of [...]

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Dr. Habermas is one of my favorite people, and you can watch him in this short video giving one of my favorite arguments for the resurrection–the pre-biblical creed recorded in 1 Corinthians 15:1-8, which cites the death for our sins, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.  The early dating of this creed at around five years [...]

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I’ve never read a book that approached the subject of prayer in quite this way before, and it couldn’t have come at a better time.  Last year was extremely difficult for me. I became overwhelmed by how much evil, hatred of God, and disregard for the truth we’re surrounded by in this world.  This, [...]

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If abortion is the killing of an innocent human being as pro-lifers say, is it right to kill an abortion doctor–a guilty human being who has been and will be involved in these killings?  I think most pro-lifers intuitively have a strong, negative reaction to this question, even if they can’t articulate precisely why such [...]

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