Tom Gilson

Charles Colson has gone home to be with the Lord. The Prison Fellowship ministry family invites you to join in celebrating his life.My son, Jonathan, and I bumped into him at his BreakPoint ministry office a few years ago. It was my first visit there, just dropping in on Travis McSherley, the editor . . . . Continue Reading »

Please pray for Chuck Colson and for his family members, who have been called to his bedside in Fairfax, Virginia. Please pray also for the staff at Prison Fellowship and the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, who call him founder, brother, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Somebody uploaded a video on YouTube to send a message that scientists ought not believe in God. The speaker is Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He is an astrophysicist and the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York.Some of the lecture was cut out, so I will not hold Tyson responsible for the error . . . . Continue Reading »

Carson Weitnauer writes at the Gospel Coalition blog about the Irony of Atheism, including, The contrasts are clear: atheists claim that religion is the main barrier to reason. Christians believe our capacity to reason comes from being created in the image of an all-knowing God, and the active use . . . . Continue Reading »

The organizers of the upcoming secularist Reason Rally have placed themselves in a pickle. It will be interesting to see how this plays out for these who portray themselves as the defenders of reason and science. Every scientist knows it’s unprofessional to draw conclusions from a . . . . Continue Reading »

David Cross earned new bragging rights at the White House a while back, according to a Fox News report yesterday. That’s what he was after, and that’s what he gained, when he did cocaine at a dinner there in 2009: “It was just about being able to say that I did it, that I did . . . . Continue Reading »

This whole article is interesting, but one point in particular provided a new perspective for me to consider. Frank Furedi is a British sociologist and author. The claim that religion scars children for life is symptomatic of the tendency of New Atheists to express themselves through the language of . . . . Continue Reading »

Not long ago I ran across a modern translation of Hamlet’s famous soliloquy on death. Shakespeare’s original is on the page above it, providing a most instructive comparison. The translation does a fine job of capturing the passage’s propositional content. I can imagine how much it . . . . Continue Reading »

There is a school of thought that says physics is the ultimate reality; that everything reduces to subatomic particles mindlessly subject to natural law.The story is told—I don’t remember where I heard it—of two young women sitting in the front row of a concert hall, holding the . . . . Continue Reading »

He was an ardent opponent of Christianity, but I will miss him.I sat in the front row for his debate with Dinesh D’Souza in Charlotte, NC last year (or was it in 2009?). Hitchens spoke first. It may have been the only time he had D’Souza completely flat-footed and unable to disagree with . . . . Continue Reading »