Lord of the Rings: The Peter Jackson Remix
It has now been almost twenty years since the release of the first film in Peter Jackson’s movie version of The Lord of the Rings. Those...
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- Jul 14, 2020
- 4 min
Loving God and Studying Theology
One of the questions I face as a professor of systematic theology at the undergraduate level is whether theology is compatible with a...
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- Jul 6, 2020
- 5 min
What Hatred Was Made For
When my students discovered last year that I had never completed The Chronicles of Narnia, there was some consternation. They all know I...
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- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
So We Lay Down the Pen
So we lay down the pen, So we forbear the building of the rime, And bid our hearts be steel for times and a time Till ends the strife,...
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- Jul 1, 2020
- 3 min
The Ghost of Thomas Aquinas
“I ain’t afraid of no ghost!” That was the refrain in the 1984 hit song “Ghostbusters,” which was part of the soundtrack to the comedy...
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- Jun 30, 2020
- 4 min
A Social Media Jekyll & Hyde Effect
About a month ago, I decided to permanently delete my Facebook account and reduce my personal "social media presence" (what an odd...
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- Jun 29, 2020
- 8 min
Light in the Darkness of Depression
Depression is not something many Christians are comfortable talking about, but it is something I believe the Church needs to talk and...
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- Jun 26, 2020
- 5 min
Darwinism & the Value of Human Life
Many years ago, I watched a video of a debate between Phillip Johnson (1940–2019) and William Provine (1942–2015). Johnson was a...
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- Jun 25, 2020
- 19 min
The Silmarillion: A Tale of Two Endings
In Tolkien’s Legendarium, Arda is the name of the world in which we still live and in which the major events concerning elves and men are...
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- Jun 22, 2020
- 6 min
It's the End of the World as We Know It
. . . and I feel fine. Anyone reading this who, like me, was in high school or college in the 1980s will likely know that these are some...
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