Have you ever been on the losing side of a cultural debate? What do you do when your own intellect seems to be tapped? You know there are some better explanations out there, much more accurate and precise, but you don’t have time for that....
Tagged: Apologetics
Spiritual Counterfeits Project Journal
I received my first free copy of SCP Journal, as part of our partnership with Mind & Media, who link Christian publishers with bloggers who agree to review their publications in exchange for receiving the materials free. As I always say, however, that doesn’t guarantee...
The Evolution of Altruistic Love?
One of the hardest things for me to do as a Christian husband is to love my wife “as Christ loved the Church.” It is a difficult thing to love someone else that sacrificially, but not an impossible thing. Which begs the question: if evolution...
The Real History of the Crusades

Often, when I am discussing the violent teachings of the Islamic faith, someone will counter with “what about the crusades?” I am so tired of this dodge, for many reasons. For one, it is a dodge of the issue, which is that Islam teaches violence...
What is a Biblical Literalist?
Liberals like to classify anyone who takes the bible more than allegorically true as literalists, but there is a whole spectrum. I couldn’t find a good description of these different approaches, maybe you can. Here is my somewhat tongue-in-cheek take on it: 1. Biblicist –...