Blog… Not the Greatest Danger 20 Jan 2006 “Which is to say that the greatest danger to faith does not come from too much thought, too much research, from being too academic.  If it did, the best thinkers would…
Blog… Wide Christian Reading 17 Jan 2006 “That may require reading more widely in great Christian literature than we ever have before. But I do not mean Christian end-time thrillers or romance novels. Those serve only to…
Blog… Squeezing Bad Scholarship 17 Jan 2006 “Squeezing lessons out of any subject is bad scholarship. Moreover, it defeats its own purpose, because the subject will teach us its lessons most effectively when we pay attention most…
Blog… Faulty Research 17 Jan 2006 “To ask a student to support an experiment on photosynthesis by looking up verses in a concordance that refer to the sun or to leaves is not only poor pedagogy;…
Blog… Intellectual Faith 17 Jan 2006 “Moreover, there are just as many stories of young people who have thrown over their Christianity, not because they substituted a more intellectual faith for a less intellectual one, but…
Blog… Academic Quality = Spiritual Decline?? 17 Jan 2006 “In their zeal to become prestigious, or known for their academic quality, many schools have moved away from their passionately Christian first principles. This is a matter of historical fact…
Blog… Powerful Scriptures 17 Jan 2006 “Does not Scripture, clearly presented, have its own power to produce “application”? The Church already labors under a surfeit of sloppy exegesis, inept hermeneutic and fiery exhortation to rush out…
Blog… Made to Reflect 17 Jan 2006 “Human beings, made in the image of God, are meant to reflect on the nature of things—cannot live without doing so. They are meant, in a word, to understand. That…
Blog… Smart, but Ignorant 17 Jan 2006 “All of this is a reminder, by the way, that the difference between a person who is liberally educated and one who is not is simply, well, a liberal education.…
Blog… Metaphysics and Honest Inquiry 17 Jan 2006 “In other words, having a metaphysics is not the same as knowing ahead of time what the consequences of that metaphysics for any particular subject will be. Because I believe…
Blog… Matthew 4 – Thoughts From My Devotions 14 Jan 2006 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; (Matthew 4:12) The thought of fleeing danger for our own protection came to my mind…
Blog… Isaiah 3 – Thoughts From My Devotions 13 Jan 2006 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay…
Blog… Trespasses and Offenses 12 Jan 2006 Recently, while discussing the biblical practice of forgiveness, a statement was made to the effect of "I was not offended by the issue, so I do not need to deal…
Blog… An Open Mind 10 Jan 2006 “An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful.  But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy.  If a man’s mind…
Blog… Obeying the Head 10 Jan 2006 “…And because our approvals and disapprovals are thus recognitions of objective value or responses to an objective order, therefore emotional states can be in harmony with reason (when we feel…
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