We live in a world that puts a high value on creativity and self-expression. Sociologists even have a term for this mentality, expressive individualism. This is the tendency to see life as something that we each individually need to realize…
Bible & Theology / Philosophy & Apologetics
In a world that prizes social media and self-expression, are you dependent?
C.S. Lewis wrote about his early discovery of joy in his book Surprised by Joy. The experience of joy first came to him when reading fantasy stories and Norse mythology. Those tales touched something deep and majestic that brought a…
Is Christianity a fairytale? Can we take seriously stories involving a roving miracle worker who died and came back from the dead? At first glance, Jesus may seem mythical, but we must not rest with our first glance. Some seem…
The Force. It’s a spiritual substance that permeates the entire galaxy. The Jedi can control it if they train their minds to that effect. But what is it? If you recall a scene in the recent Star Wars: the Last…
Conservative Christians, perhaps more than any other group, have been pinned as the quintessential intolerant, bigoted, anti-progressive people of our world. They, in the eye of the public, are constantly resisting political progress by going against the popular views of…
Deontology is a duty based ethical system. It is not necessarily concerned with the outcome of an action, but rather the duty to perform what is morally right. In some ways, it is the kind of Captain America type system where you…