Reflections on Grief
Though I have often vicariously experienced the pain of loss through various authors’ lamentations, nothing, however, so teaches like the reality of firsthand loss—when that looming shadow that is cast […]
Though I have often vicariously experienced the pain of loss through various authors’ lamentations, nothing, however, so teaches like the reality of firsthand loss—when that looming shadow that is cast […]
Etched into the Declaration of Independence is the famous phrase that we are all endowed with inalienable rights, that of life, liberty…. …..and the pursuit of happiness. In particular, the […]
In the book Surprised by Joy Lewis tells the following: “Many chapters ago I mentioned a boy who lived near us and who had tried, quite unsuccessfully, to make friends […]
Thomas Aquinas offers a persuasive argument in Summa Contra Gentiles I, 7: “The truth that the human reason is naturally endowed to know cannot be opposed to the truth of […]
My roommate and I just had a lively discussion on basically what came down to this question: What is the relationship between faith and reason? This relationship has been something […]
Currently, I am immersed in reading Dr. John Mark Reynold’s (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Biola University) unpublished (and heavily unedited) copy of his upcoming book “Athens and Jerusalem: The […]
In a classic Doonesbury cartoon, a rumpled professor holds forth from a lectern while his students dutifully scribble away in their notepads: ” . . . and in my view, […]
The Calvinistic theological model can be understood nicely through the acronym TULIP. (TULIP definitions are from Michael Robinson: The Storms of Providence): T- Total depravity- unregenerate humans (due to sin) […]
When someone asks, “What is your goal?” this often means the same as “to what is your end?” For example, if someone asked me, “What is your goal this semester […]