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Monthly Archives: October 2015
How does a church measure success?
The other day my wife accused me of harboring a secret desire to be a race car driver. We were on vacation in Tennessee, hiking state parks and national recreation areas. Getting to those places sometimes meant driving serpentine roads, … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Church, Faith
Tagged church, demographics, denominations, Kentucky, success, Tennessee
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Tear down this wall!
One of the chief difficulties people (skeptics, seekers, and believers) have with Christianity is the idea that it doesn’t belong to this world, that religion and reality don’t intersect. It’s assumed that religion is a kind of fantasy world that … Continue reading
What you need to know to avoid God
Avoiding God is no easy task. Many people who try it fail. It takes effort. It calls for constant vigilance. As C. S. Lewis, reminiscing about his days as an atheist, put it, “Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Faith
Tagged avoiding God, Bible sermon, C. S. Lewis, contemplation, doubt, Facebook, hypocrisy, Kevin Looper, skeptic
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The first thing out the door
Is there such a thing as human nature? It seems an abstract question, one that philosophers and theologians might want to pursue, but not the rest of us. Yet the answer to that question is surprisingly important to the ordering … Continue reading
Posted in In the News
Tagged affirmative action, anti-Semitism, Aquinas, Charles Desmond, Cicero, Declaration of Independence, DOMA, Hitler, human nature, James Iredell, John Marshall, Justice Kennedy, laws of nature, lynching, natural law, Oxford Dictionary, Supreme Court, Texas sodomy laws
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