The Centrality of Grace
I have a big list of blog ideas. When I get an idea for a blog, I put it on the list. When I get time to write a blog, I open a list and write a page about the idea. Usually I add in some analogy to illustrate it or some argument for it’s truth if it’s controversial. Then I steak a pictu

posted 5:31:17pm Apr. 09, 2013 | read full post »

Apologetics and its Miscategorization
Generally speaking, the church tolerates apologetics nerds like myself. They acknowledge us, and withhold comment except perhaps to say something like “maybe you could teach a class or something sometime” Sometime never comes. Believe it or not that’s a pretty good lot for us, comparatively.

posted 4:07:52am Feb. 28, 2013 | read full post »

Expel The Immoral Brother
I wrote earlier about profanity. I argued that the bible often finds profanity necessary to make it’s point. At the time I said that I wanted to make that point not just to defend profanity, but because there were other points that I felt were important to make, that rested on that point as a prem

posted 5:29:00am Jan. 16, 2013 | read full post »

Han Shot First (A Meditation on Relativism, And Why It’s Dumb)
I will not be the first Christian to write a blog that 6 people ever will read refuting relativism. I won’t be the last. I’m not the smartest, and despite my ambition for uniqueness, my article will not break any new barriers in the field of epistemology. It is, according to all formal logical t

posted 5:10:00am Jan. 10, 2013 | read full post »

Buddhist Fisherman
I am aware of some ministries that have become so focused on the the importance of evangelism that they talk about “The parable of the fishless fisherman”. I won’t link you said parable (as it’s copyrighted) but the gist is that just as a person who claims to be a fisherman but never catches

posted 2:41:06am Jan. 08, 2013 | read full post »