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    Loving God and Studying Theology
    • 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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    What Hatred Was Made For
    • 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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    So We Lay Down the Pen
    • 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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    The Ghost of Thomas Aquinas
    • 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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    A Social Media Jekyll & Hyde Effect
    • 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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    Light in the Darkness of Depression
    • 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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    Darwinism & the Value of Human Life
    • 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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    The Silmarillion: A Tale of Two Endings
    • 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...
    647 views
    It's the End of the World as We Know It
    • 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...
    7,761 views
    Christianity in a World of "Newspeak"
    • Jun 17, 2020
    • 7 min

    Christianity in a World of "Newspeak"

    In his book 1984, George Orwell introduced the fictional language he called “Newspeak.” The totalitarian party that ruled Oceania created...
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