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July 25, 2017
This week’s book, Questions That Matter, originally written by Ed Miller and later revised with coauthor Jon Jensen, is not a Christian classic but rather an introductory textbook to philosophy. However, this is not just any textbook.
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July 18, 2017
Martin Luther is famous for posting his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg and for attempting to reform the Catholic Church, but what exactly did he believe, and what else did he contribute to Christendom?
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July 18, 2017
John Calvin was one of the great voices of the Protestant Reformation, but what exactly did he believe, and what else did he contribute to Christianity?
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July 18, 2017
It is clearly not easy to experience intense pain, either physically or mentally, or be the victim of a natural disaster or of someone’s evil actions. But it may even be worse to watch our loved ones experience painful and tragic circumstances. And yet, human life includes all sorts of suffering. Because suffering and death…
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July 17, 2017
Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942) was a Nazi leader who impressed Adolf Hitler with his unbridled brutality. Historians consider Heydrich to be the central mastermind of the greatest state-sponsored crime in history—the Holocaust.
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Problem of Evil
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Movies
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History
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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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