Never Always Winter
In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis describes Narnia as a place where it is “always winter, but never Christmas.” This is a perfect way to explain to a child (and to the rest of us)…
Tag Apologetics
Extracting Nectar From a Painted Rose
A few years ago, Harvard scholar and author, James Wood, wrote a review of Bart Ehrman’s, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer, entitled “Holiday in Hellmouth.” Wood is an eloquent, penetrating, and…
Extracting Nectar From a Painted Rose
A few years ago, Harvard scholar and author, James Wood, wrote a review of Bart Ehrman’s, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer, entitled “Holiday in Hellmouth.” Wood is an eloquent, penetrating, and…
The Glorious Groan of the Gospel
In my last article, I hinted at one way that a Christian could respond to the “problem of evil.” The problem, we will remember, is a distinctly Christian problem. As it is often charged, the problem has to do with…
The Glorious Groan of the Gospel
In my last article, I hinted at one way that a Christian could respond to the “problem of evil.” The problem, we will remember, is a distinctly Christian problem. As it is often charged, the problem has to do with…
Mind and Cosmos
Thomas Nagel. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 130 pp. Hardcover: $24.95. There are basically three types of modern atheists: soft atheists, hard atheists, and conflicted atheists.…
Covenantal Apologetics
K. Scott Oliphint, Covenantal Apologetics: Principles and Practice in Defense of Our Faith. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2013, 277pp. $19.99 In his latest work, Covenantal Apologetics, K. Scott Oliphint seeks to recast Cornelius Van Til’s presuppositional apologetics as “covenantal apologetics” –…
Nor the Heart of Man Imagined
The problem of suffering, sin and evil, in its myriad forms, is the most difficult problem that any Christian faces. The problem is sometimes construed too abstractly, as if it were only an intellectual problem. But it isn’t. It is…
Nor the Heart of Man Imagined
The problem of suffering, sin and evil, in its myriad forms, is the most difficult problem that any Christian faces. The problem is sometimes construed too abstractly, as if it were only an intellectual problem. But it isn’t. It is…
Making Faces
One of the most fearsome phrases in all of Holy Scripture is this: Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field…”(Gen. 3:1). The reference here is to the subtle schemes of Satan himself. This “craftiness”…