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Against Christian Nihilism

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No, Richard Hanania. Social Conservatism Is Not 4D Chess.

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Five Strategies to Escape Ideology

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Having Kids After the Fall: Toward a Postlapsarian Pronatalism

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Philosophy

Atheists Don't Need to Explain Morality in Order to Believe in It

On the independence of ethics from metaethics

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Why I STOPPED Being a Presuppositionalist

And began to be a Christian Humanist

Jun 23 •

Humane Analytic Philosophy: An Oxymoron?

A reading guide for the Christian humanist

Jun 18 •

Don't Let Academia Stop You Being an Intellectual

22 Tips to Maintain an Independent Mind

May 5 •

Do People’s Different Beliefs about God Mean They Worship Different gods?

Being mistaken about the right object does not mean referring to the wrong object.

Apr 25 •

Theology

Was Machen a Modernist?

J. Gresham Machen — the fundamentalist champion of evangelical hagiography, or modern scholar, whose embrace of rigorous historical methods placed him…

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Who Is the Natural Theologian?

Part 1 of my interview with New Kinship on secular studies, natural theology, and same-sex attraction.

Jul 10 •

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New Kinship Podcast

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Zwingli: Christian Humanist and God's Armed Prophet, with Dr. Bruce Gordon

An interview with Yale historian and author of Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet

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Science

Sexual Behavior Is Malleable; Sexual Orientation Is Not

A Quibble with Lyman Stone

Apr 22 •

Reading Evolutionary Psychology While Creationist

Six Suggestions for Studying Secular Sources

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Why Not Theistic Evolution? Part 4: Does “Darwin Devolves” Survive Criticism?

In "The Edge of Evolution," Michael Behe proposes an eponymous edge of evolution. In "Evolution Unscathed," Behe's colleagues Gregory Lang and Amber…

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Sexuality

Sexual Behavior Is Malleable; Sexual Orientation Is Not

A Quibble with Lyman Stone

Apr 22 •

Is Temptation Sin?

A succinct, but long-overdue answer to a pressing theological question.

Nov 21, 2024 •

"Gay": Identity, or Description?

Adjectives don’t define us; they describe us. And accurate self-description is very important to the Christian life.

Nov 8, 2023 •

Sexual Orientation Is Not a Social Construct

“Gay Christian” is a legitimate term because some Christians ... are gay.

Oct 24, 2023 •

Recent posts

Was Machen a Modernist?

J. Gresham Machen — the fundamentalist champion of evangelical hagiography, or modern scholar, whose embrace of rigorous historical methods placed him…

16 hrs ago •

Who Is the Natural Theologian?

Part 1 of my interview with New Kinship on secular studies, natural theology, and same-sex attraction.

Jul 10 •

and

New Kinship Podcast

Atheists Don't Need to Explain Morality in Order to Believe in It

On the independence of ethics from metaethics

Jul 7 •

Zwingli: Christian Humanist and God's Armed Prophet, with Dr. Bruce Gordon

An interview with Yale historian and author of Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet

Jun 26

1:18:26

Why I STOPPED Being a Presuppositionalist

And began to be a Christian Humanist

Jun 23 •

Humane Analytic Philosophy: An Oxymoron?

A reading guide for the Christian humanist

Jun 18 •

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