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How Do We Establish a Consistent Worldview? (Tsouloufis GUEST POST)

How Do We Establish a Consistent Worldview? Building and maintaining a well thought out worldview is critical to how we make sense of things and how we understand reality. Therefore, it is imperative that our worldview is both coherent and consistent. Yet it is quite common for people to profess a particular worldview while at […]

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Guest Post: “Where does our Sense of Morality and Justice Come From?” (Tsouloufis)

Guest Post: “Where does our Sense of Morality and Justice Come From?” (Tsouloufis) Religion (true religion) brings a sense of meaning, purpose, and moral order to our lives and our communities. Yet if there is no God, where would we get our sense of right and wrong, or our sense of fairness and justice? If […]

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CAN SCIENCE EXPLAIN IT ALL? A Free Event for North Central College Students

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What is the GOOD Life? A Christian Reflection

What is the good life? What is a life well lived? How does our worldview shape and inform how we understand this question? I believe we all seek to answer the question in someway—if not overtly, then through how we live, spend our time and money, hope and hate particular things, and how we consider […]

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Dealing with an Objection to Hell: Unjust of God to Give an Eternal Punishment for a Finite Crime?

The doctrine of an ETERNAL hell has many objectors today. A lot of people cannot fathom how God could be just and send anyone to hell, especially if it is an eternal hell for sins committed in this temporary life. The question is ‘How could such a thing be fair?’ This is an not a […]

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Responding to SCIENTISM

Scientism is an approach to science that elevates it above all other fields of knowledge and makes claims in the name of science, which science itself cannot support. We hear this in statements like “Science has shown there is no evidence for God.” We see in an attitude that views science as objective, but views […]

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Ultimate Authority and Atheism

How do you view the question of ultimate authority? And what are the implications concerning other questions of reality? An ultimate authority is an authority that transcends all other authorities and is understood to have legitimate—not arbitrary—rights to govern and rule. As a Christian, I would argue that God is the ultimate authority of all […]

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An Invitation to an Agnostic Friend

Dear Friend, You rightly recognize the audacious claims of Christians and others who assert they possession knowledge of ultimate reality and God. (It is a bold statement to claim such knowledge about God and reality.) You also rightly recognize that competing statements about God (Jesus is God and Jesus is not God for instance) cannot […]

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What is Beauty?

This Saturday our meetup discussion group is discussing BEAUTY together. I’ve enjoyed preparing for this discussion and thinking about it a bit. Here’s some of the questions we’ll be thinking through together: 1. When we say a thing is beautiful, what do we mean?2. What makes a thing beautiful and a thing ugly?3. Is beauty […]

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The Irrational Mystical Approach of Atheism in Regard to "What is the Purpose of Life?"

My atheist friends often speak with pride about how they have chosen the way of science and reason and have rejected religious superstitions and myths. Theirs is the way void of religious mysticism, unlike Christians or those who believe in God. We’re often given the impression that the way of atheism is the way free […]