The new cake wars is not a triviality, even though on the surface it may seem like it. The issue here is that, like with all human rights, we have rights that conflict and must be balanced. In the case of bakeries refusing to bake cakes...
Here is the lecture I gave at the 2015 Rethinking Hell Conference. It’s about an hour long, but I think it’s worth it. Enjoy.
Have you ever been so stressed or sad that you felt like you were losing years off of your life? That real life was so hard you wanted to just let all of your responsibilities slide so you could hide until the storm passed? You...
For those new to the debate over hell, there are three main positions in Christendom: The Traditional View, a.k.a. Eternal Conscious Punishment (ECP), claims that those who fail to receive Christ are punished for the sins by being tormented forever in hell. The Conditional View,...
The second Rethinking Hell conference just finished, and this year was more fun than last year because I got to present a breakout lecture entitled A Philosophical Case for Conditional Immortality (I’ll post the audio and slides in a future post). Being embedded in the...
My left-leaning evangelical friends often chide me as being uncaring and unbiblical when I resist increased taxes for social welfare programs. They believe that they have Biblical and intellectual reasons to take their position, but I think they actually do not, and are violating biblical...
In my previous post, I discussed the three levels of accusation regarding the guilt of white people in white privilege, and how I find only the mildest of these of any merit. I also alluded to the fact that the problems of black community, which...
Over the last few days, I’ve had a heated discussion with a pastor friend of mine about ‘white privilege,’ which, if you don’t know, can be defined something like this: A term for societal privileges that benefit white people in western countries beyond what is...
