I had noticed, of course, that the humans were having a lull in their European war–what they naïvely call ‘The War’! C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters It’s natural for those of us outside of Ukraine or any of the other countries experiencing violent conflict, to think that we’re at peace. Read more…
Is there such a thing as a singular ‘they’ in the English language? That is, can the word ‘they’ (also ‘them’ and ‘their’) be used to refer to one person, or is it only appropriate for two or more people? Consider this sentence: Somebody left their dog tied to this Read more…
One of the most obvious consequences of Darwinism, one which was very attractive to early adherents but completely ignored today, is that the same process that distinguished humans from other apes would still be in progress today, improving the genes of some groups of people at the expense of other Read more…
The Kalaam Cosmological argument for the existence of God runs a little like this: Everything that begins to exist must have a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause. You may or may not find that convincing, and that’s ok because my purpose here is Read more…
The act of creating something largely consists in making distinctions. Whether we are painting, writing music, building a website, or designing a rocket, at a most basic level we use color, tone, material, layout, shape and so many other details to make our creation what it is rather than something Read more…
One of the marks of the authenticity of the Bible as God’s Word is its careful balance on notoriously difficult questions. Considering the fact that the Bible is not the work of a single human author, but more than 40 over the course 1,500 years, writing in three different languages, Read more…
What does spiritual warfare consist in? For example, when Paul says “the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds,” (2 Corinthians 10:4), what are the spiritual weapons that he’s talking about, and what are the strongholds that we are supposed to Read more…
This manuscript is called Minuscule 2445. It originally contained the four gospels, although major portions are now missing. It’s called a minuscule because it’s written with lowercase letters (older manuscripts were written all uppercase), and based on the handwriting it was copied sometime in the 12th century. 2445 is a Read more…
“And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are Read more…
Multiplication – so what? It’s no surprise that 8×4=32 or that my 3rd grader was able to solve this basic math problem. It’s just rational thought on the most basic level, but have you ever wondered why exactly we humans are capable of thinking rationally? We take it for granted Read more…