Ministering to High-risk Teenagers
I’ve had the privilege of serving on staff in three different churches. In many ways, the churches couldn’t be more different. The first was a growing congregation in northern Alabama that ministers largely to middle-class families. The second was in eastern North Carolina. By many standards, this church is large and continues to grow. The make-up of the church is middle-to-upper middle class. Because of various Christian schools in...
Cultural Apologetics: An Interview with Paul M. Gould
For the past two millennia, Christians have sought to articulate their faith in thoughtful and compelling ways. Many of these “arguments” have been etched into church history, like Anselm’s ontological argument, Thomas Aquinas’s five ways, or William Paley’s illustration of the watchmaker. More recent times have witnessed a shift toward engaging the surrounding culture with the truth and the practice of Christianity. Men like Francis...
Technology in View of the Eschaton
Sophia is a humanoid robot that was been created by a Hong Kong-based company known as Hanson Robotics. She was fully activated in 2016 and since then has made quite an impact on pop culture. The Internet is replete with videos of Sophia being interviewed and on display. She has been on 60 Minutes, The Tonight Show, and a handful of other notable shows, and has been profiled in Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. What makes Sophia...
Diagnosing Our Individualism(s)
Individualism is not a problem contained to our time. No matter how much we might argue about the “good ol’ days,” the over-emphasis on one’s self is a perennial problem, or even the first problem. In the Garden Adam and Eve decided to place their own individual desires above the commands of One who was external from them, even though that One was their own Creator. In doing so, they reaped the consequences. As a result, we shouldn’t...
Edward John Carnell: An Apologist for Our Time
If you’re new to the enterprise of apologetics, you might not readily think that you could do apologetics in a variety of ways. But once you begin reading, you’ll quickly realize that Christians have employed a wide array of methods throughout history to defend the faith. These methods include Classical apologetics, often associated with men like Thomas Aquinas, and hard-presuppositional apologetics, usually associated with Cornelius...
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