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July 11, 2017
As a Christian scholar and logic instructor, I often get asked about my thoughts on strange phenomena, controversial theories, and alternative conspiratorial explanations.
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End Times
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Critical Thinking
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UFOs & Extraterrestrials
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Conspiracy Theories
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Controversies
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July 4, 2017
When thinking through the big questions of life, we must include honest reflection about our mortality. Just as we are born, so also shall we die. Medical technology may lengthen the human life span somewhat, but it will not succeed in curing or eliminating death.
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June 20, 2017
This might sound a little strange or even morbid to some, but I am captivated by the topic of death. The first Catholic funeral I attended as a boy fascinated me. I'll never forget the elaborate Funeral Mass, the foreboding casket lying near the altar, and the priest's liberal use of incense, which filled the church with a pleasant aroma.
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June 20, 2017
There is a growing crisis in evangelical churches today. However, most evangelicals are unaware of the nature of the emergency or of its looming repercussions. The problem is that many intellectually oriented Christian adults increasingly feel out of place in evangelical churches.
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Reflective Thinking
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Uncategorized
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The Church
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Reflections
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Life of the Mind
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Learning
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Education
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Critical Thinking
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Christian Life
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June 13, 2017
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the Christian classics in such fields as theology, philosophy, and apologetics.
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Reading
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Christian Literature
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Books
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Book Reviews
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June 6, 2017
In the Christian world-and-life view, both work and leisure are considered good things. Both come as gifts from God's hand and are rooted and discerned from the Lord's foundational act in creation.
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Worldviews
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Christian Life
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May 30, 2017
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously
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May 23, 2017
Everybody knows about the Middle Eastern monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But few people know there is another religion that originated in the Middle East whose adherents also believe in and worship one God. That little known religion is called Zoroastrianism, or the Parsi faith.
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May 16, 2017
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of the Christian classics in such fields as theology, philosophy, and apologetics.
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Reading
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Christian Literature
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Books
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Book Reviews
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May 9, 2017
When you mention Middle Eastern monotheistic religions virtually everyone knows of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But there is a fourth religion—with an estimated 200,000 adherents—that fits that same category, yet few people know much about it at all.
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May 2, 2017
This blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner's guide to some of the Christian classics in such fields as theology, philosophy, and apologetics.
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Book Reviews
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Reading
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Christian Literature
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Books
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April 25, 2017
I like to visit cemeteries because they remind me that I’m mortal and life is very short. Seeing the graves of people also focuses my attention upon eternal issues like what will await me after death. I like to think that reflecting upon my death will help me live a more authentic and focused life.
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April 18, 2017
It is hard to exaggerate the importance of Jesus’s resurrection to Christianity, for Christ’s resurrection truly stands at the very center of the Christian faith. It serves both as a crucial Christian doctrine and as the faith’s most potent argument:
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Resurrection
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Jesus Christ
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April 11, 2017
Does every historic movement emerge from a specific cause? If so, what caused the Christian religion to come into being? According to the original followers of Jesus of Nazareth, the church sprang into existence and was deeply shaped because of the truth of the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Resurrection
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Jesus Christ
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April 4, 2017
Some people have had dramatic religious conversions. In fact, my three favorite Christian thinkers outside of the biblical authors—St. Augustine, Blaise Pascal, and C. S. Lewis—all experienced amazing life-changing conversions to Christianity. But there is one person whose conversion to the Christian faith changed the world forever.
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Resurrection
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Jesus Christ
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March 28, 2017
Today’s skeptics of Jesus’s resurrection sometimes state that religious people are too quick to accept reports about miracles. Those who doubt the miraculous often insist that miracle claims aren’t usually sufficiently questioned. But was this the case among Jesus’s apostles concerning the resurrection?
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Resurrection
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Jesus Christ
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Faith & Reason
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Faith
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Bible
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