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Brit Hume’s Worldview Critique

Even for Fox News, this is surprising, yet this is how every believer ought to be prepared to respond—telling the truth with meekness and gentleness. Likely, Brit Hume’s statement will be regarded as arrogant and closed-minded, but Buddhism doesn’t provide for the needs of . . . . Continue Reading »

What Questions?

Sarah Flashing challenged us to consider our approach to apologetics.  But I’m just a little more pessimistic.  Well, actually, I’m optimistically pessimistic.  I think the current state of our society is worse than we imagine.  But I think that the situation is the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Tragedy of Oral Roberts

I commend to you this post by Albert Mohler and heartily concur with his wise assessment of the tragedy of Oral Robert’s ministry:“In the end, however, Oral Roberts should be measured by his message. Though his claims of visions and healings drew deserved attention, along with both . . . . Continue Reading »

An Interview with the Devil Himself

In his current Evangel bio, Frank Turk lists one of his pastimes as “internet mayhem.” As evidenced by the current offense taken to him by Mark Olsen and various commenters at Evangel, he obviously hasn’t lost his spiritual gift in that matter. However, as he read through . . . . Continue Reading »

An Apologetics Investigation

It seems that the question of presuppositionalism vs evidentialism does get people, well, excited.  The presupps don’t like being told they are taking a “leap of faith” and the evids don’t like being told that their work is insufficient.  My question goes to the . . . . Continue Reading »

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