Reflections

4 min read 2022-10-18 19:00:00

Does Reading Lead to the Good Life?

Here’s a question for you to consider: How important is reading for achieving success in life? Leading educational reformer E. D. Hirsch Jr. offers

4 min read 2022-10-04 19:00:00

I’ve never met a perfect human being. Even extraordinary Christian people I’ve known who are uncommonly humble, gracious, and loving admit that

3 min read 2022-09-20 19:00:00

How often do you use analogies when trying to explain things? I’ll bet you do it more often than you realize. An analogy involves a comparison

4 min read 2022-09-06 19:00:00

One of the hotly debated topics within Christian theology is the question of how God can be sovereign and yet allow evil in the world. Two people

3 min read 2022-08-23 19:00:00

Many people claim to have had religious experiences with God—a phenomenon that has been true since time immemorial. How can a person think through

3 min read 2022-08-09 19:00:00

“Who can fathom the Spirit of the LORD, or instruct the LORD as his counselor? Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the

5 min read 2022-07-26 19:00:00

Having been an author, professor, Sunday school teacher, and radio talk show host over my thirty-five-year professional career, I’ve been asked

3 min read 2022-07-12 19:00:00

Ancient Christian church father St. Augustine (354–430) articulated the provocative idea that the Trinity makes God perfect in a love that is found

4 min read 2022-06-28 19:00:00

As a Christian thinker and apologist, I have talked with many non-Christians about my Christian faith over almost the past four decades. Some

8 min read 2022-06-21 19:00:00

Conspiracy theories never seem to go away. Especially the ones that are said to involve clandestine plots of the United States government. It seems

3 min read 2022-05-31 19:00:00

Why can’t all the world’s religions be true? The challenge of accepting the idea that all religions are true (religious pluralism) stems from

4 min read 2022-05-17 19:00:00

Historic Christendom is generally thought of as consisting of three main branches: Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Protestantism.1 Yet as a serious

2 min read 2022-05-03 19:00:00

Since I teach courses in comparative religions at Biola University and through Reasons Institute, people sometimes ask me what I think about the

3 min read 2022-04-18 19:00:00

The doctrines of the incarnation (Jesus Christ as God in human flesh) and the Trinity (one God in three persons) are two of historic Christianity’s

2 min read 2022-04-05 19:00:00

One of the very best and most supportive professors I had in college, Rev. Dr. Martin Schramm, died recently of cancer. Dr. Schramm was one of the