Take Up and Read: How to Think about the Great Ideas
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of… read more
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When Suffering Turns Your World Upside Down
When you are young and healthy, it is easy to think that you are in control of your life and that you are the master of your own fate. But… read more
Take Up and Read: Saved by Grace
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of… read more
Can Sounds Be Evil?
I had a thoughtful student respectfully take issue with me over the topic of whether sound or instrumental music (music without lyrics) could be… read more
Addressing Doubts about the Faith
Several years ago I received an email from a pastor who was going through some difficult times. He had battled a life-threatening illness,… read more
Take Up and Read: Augustine through the Ages
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of… read more
Disappointment with Other Christians
For my Christian readers, have you ever been deeply disappointed by other Christians? I hope you haven’t, but if you haven’t been… read more
Feed on the Faith: Grace-Oriented Spiritual Renewal
Over the course of more than 30 years of work in the field of Christian apologetics, there have been a number of times that I felt drained and in… read more
Take Up and Read: Engaging Unbelief
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of… read more
Five Ways Historic Christianity Relates Faith to Reason
Many people view faith and reason as being at odds with one another. For example, some differentiate faith from reason by asserting that faith merely… read more
Take Up and Read: Luther’s Small Catechism
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of… read more
Take Up and Read: Handbook of Basic Bible Texts
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of… read more
Logic as an Intellectual Navigation System, Part 1
The study of logic doesn’t actually teach a person to think—people do that intuitively and instinctively. Rather, instruction in logic… read more
Take Up and Read: Questions That Matter
This current blog series on Reflections is intended to encourage Christians to read more vigorously by providing a beginner’s guide to some of… read more
The Big Questions of Life: Death and Grief, Part 3
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… read more
Logically Questioning Strange Ideas and Controversial Theories
As a Christian scholar and logic instructor, I often get asked about my thoughts on strange phenomena, controversial theories, and alternative… read more
The Big Questions of Life: Death and Grief, Part 2
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.… read more
Making Evangelical Churches More Inviting to Christian Intellectuals
There is a growing crisis in evangelical churches today. However, most evangelicals are unaware of the nature of the emergency or of its looming… read more