Faith and science. This is one of the toughest relationships to navigate in the modern world. How should Christians who want to do science but also want to r...

Underlying the Church & State debate and more broadly the question of Christian political theory is a fundamental question of definitions. What is a state? W...

What are the Christian expectations for government? What does Christian doctrine assert regarding out political and social leaders? In my mind there are thre...

Do a quick survey of books and sermons in the last few decades, and you will quickly notice a fascination with the word "radical." To prove my own susceptibi...

There is nothing I like more than a good comparison. Whether framed as metaphors, similes, or a good ol' parable, comparisons are essential tools of communic...

The Greatest Living Philosopher: Alvin Plantinga I sat down this morning to compose a list of the most influential, living Christian philosophers. I'm not su...

Americans value nothing more than freedom. The concept stands enshrined in our founding documents and in our hearts. But as a civilization, our constant chal...

The ontological argument is a traditional Christian argument, but it is probably the least understood and least practical of all them all, the ultimate acqui...

Why do humans have the ability to ask and analyze a question like whether or not God exists? What is the meaning of terms like cognitive faculties, memory, p...

My first crush was science. I fell completely in love with her at an early age, and it wasn't until I earned my degree in Astrophysics that the spell was sha...

Why are we able to do mathematically based science? If we drop an apple from a tree, we can, with accuracy, predict not only that it will fall instead of ris...

Every era has its own prevailing narrative, mood, values, and concerns. They pivot restlessly from generation to generation, rarely settling. Like popular ba...

What if the universe could be explained through purely physical processes just so long as we were allowed to choose a very precise set of initial conditions?...

The principal moral question of our era is not "what is evil" but rather whether or not such a thing as evil exists. Modern moral philosophers have worked fo...

This argument takes its name from the Greek term, τελος (telos), which means an end or by implication a purpose. Whereas the cosmological argument looks for ...

Plenty has already been written about Andy Stanley’s recent comments about “unhitching” the Hebrew Scriptures from Christianity (this one is especially good)...

One relatively straightforward theistic argument takes a look at the whole sum of reality as we know it and asks for a cause sufficient to explain it. Histor...

W.K. Clifford once famously asserted, “It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”1 Clifford’s position ...