In the past few weeks, I’ve been blessed to have had numerous occasions to reflect on the purpose and mission of Christian thought in general and the Ichthus in particular, and I wanted to take some time to share my perspective and engage with the rest of the community. I think the issue of articulating
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Last week, I pointed out a recurring inconsistency in contemporary Evangelical thought. The inconsistency was this: many Evangelicals accept as valid or even base historical arguments on the results of scientific inquiry, while at the same time denying the relevance of scientific findings in certain fields (e.g. biology, geology, astrophysics). Today I want to press
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The newest issue of the Ichthus is out (go read it if you haven’t already!), and it’s brimming with interesting articles. I was especially fascinated by Stanley Hauerwas’ “War and the American Difference: A Theological Assessment”. He does, indeed, deal with war; but he also explores the purpose of the university, arguing that the university
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Not so long ago I overheard the following exchange: Woman: Isn’t the dining hall’s food terrible? Man: Sometimes the dining hall has good food! They had grits yesterday. Woman: I don’t like grits – I hate the taste of gravy. Man: What does grits have to do with gravy? Woman: … ? Grits has nothing
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Dedicated to the inimitable George Thampy In the fashionable world of philosophy, an ontology called naturalism has been the vogue for the past sixty years. Like denim, naturalism appeals to the working-class (i.e. scientific) aesthetic characteristic of philosophy since the eighteenth century. Like denim, naturalism is thrown on without much regard for whether there could
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Last week I summarized the argument of John Walton’s The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate and promised to explain exactly what I take to be problematic about it. This week, I fulfill my promise. I would like to begin by playing with an intuition that I think most people
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I can’t imagine a more beautiful place to write than where I’m currently sitting, in the lounge of Grand Teton National Park’s Jackson Lake Lodge. The view from here steals your breath away, especially at sunset when the mountains glow from behind with a golden halo and the sky turns a profound royal purple. If
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