Ignorance of Faith and Reason “One can believe that faith is mere credulous assent to unfounded premises, while reason consists in a pure obedience to empirical fact, only if one is largely ignorant of both.” David Bentley Hart ‘Atheist Delusions’
Christianity and Scientific Revolution “Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler, and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the in enormous burden of the millennial authority Aristotelian science. The scientific […]
Most Violent Century ““We live now in the wake of the most monstrously violent century in human history, during which the secular order (on both the political right and the political left), freed from the authority of religion, showed itself willing to kill on an unprecedented scale and with an ease of conscience worse than […]
My Experience of TEDx Naperville Last week I attended a TEDx conference in Naperville. It was my first time going, and I’m glad I went! If you’ve never heard of TEDx, it is a regional/local gathering of volunteers who host a conference in the same mindset and approach as TED talks—informative, engaging lectures and presentations […]
Nothing Inherently Reasonable “There is, after all, nothing inherently reasonable in the conviction that all of reality is simply an accidental confluence of physical causes, without any transcendent source or end. Materialism is not a fact of experience or a deduction of logic; it is a metaphysical prejudice, nothing more, and one that is arguably […]
STORY: How Pride Leads us to Believe the Wrong Story about Reality Back in college (my undergrad at U.N.L.V.), I was a resident assistant (RA) in the dorms I lived in for 3 years. An RA is someone who gives direction and guidance to the residents on the floor—basically helps things run smooth (so people […]
Is the Authority of Scripture Limited to Ethics and Morality? (Guest Post–Dan Tsouloufis) Many people contend that the authority of Scripture is limited to ethics and morality, whereas “science” is the authority on everything else. This of course opens up the door to marginalizing Scripture. So to address the issue regarding what it would look like where Scripture […]
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Illusions of Freedom
Illusions of Freedom Examples of Illusions of Freedom: Debt: I’m free to purchase the item I want even if I can’t afford it. But I’m now enslaved to the Debtor until I can pay off what I owe. Sin: I’m free to reject the one true God and His ways. In reality, we cut ourselves […]
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Freedom and Identity
Freedom and Identity Have you ever considered how much IDENTITY is linked to FREEDOM? This is something I’ve been pondering this week. I think that how we understand identity will shape how we think of what freedom is and looks like. For instance: a musician is most free when he has unhindered access to his […]
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Freedom
Freedom Biblical worldview: As creatures made in God’s image we are given a particular freedom and dignity to make decisions. We are not slaves to our genes or pre-programmed machines; we are have true freedom—though a limited freedom. Only God—the one true God in all of existence who has revealed himself in the Bible and […]