The argument from design is one the oldest for the existence of God. It deduces the existence of a Designer-God from the evidence for…
Beyond the Cosmos: The Extra-Dimensionality of God (Hugh Ross, 1996)
Can we really know God?” This, the opening sentence of the book, is the question Hugh Ross hopes to answer in Beyond the Cosmos.…
U2, All That You Can’t Leave Behind (2000)
U2. For their fans (like me), the name says it all. But for those of you who aren’t as familiar with them, let me…
Cast Away (Robert Zemeckis, 2000)
Knowing my interest in the whys and wherefores of learning, a good friend sent me an essay last summer by the agrarian philosopher Wendell…
Insight into Film: Don’t Leave Your Brains at the Box Office
I am often in the position of arguing for the truthfulness of the Christian view of life and the world. My teaching and my…
I Am Charlotte Simmons (Tom Wolfe, 2005)
All sad and weary and shallow… for, as Socrates himself put it, "If a man debauches himself, believing this will bring him happiness, then…
Part 3 Review: ANew Kind of Christian (Brian McLaren, 2001)
If these volumes didn’t exist someone would have to invent them. Why? Because Christians desperately need two things, which are rarely kept together these…
Part 2 Review: New Kind of Christian (Brian McLaren, 2001)
What does it mean to be a Christian in a postmodern world? For that matter, what is a postmodern world? Is postmodernism another “ism”…
Part 1 Review: A New Kind of Christian (Brian McLaren, 2001)
When Christians read Brian McLaren’s book A New Kind of Christian, they have one of two reactions: either they recoil because he is challenging…
Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown, 2003)
“What I mean,” Teabing countered, “is that almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false.”The Da Vinci Code (p.235) Introduction The controversy…