Apologetics – Another Small Stone

Why Cosmology Matters

“Actually, we believe that Christianity started at the creation of the world.” I was going back and forth with one of my friends who was giving his account of why he didn’t believe in any religion. He spoke generally about the age of religions. About how Islam was predated by Christianity which was predated byContinue reading “Why Cosmology Matters”

From the Courts to the Streets

For my entire life abortion has been legal in all 50 states. Not only has it been legal, but the states have been prohibited from outlawing by a 1973 Supreme Court case called Roe v. Wade. Now, in what is likely, without hyperbole, the biggest move towards justice since the founding of the country, RoeContinue reading “From the Courts to the Streets”

Nobody is really a pluralist, and why that’s okay

It is surprising (and oh so refreshing!) to see crossover between our new urban Asian context and where we used to live in the United States. I don’t know yet if the crossover is because our context is becoming more westernized or if it is because the West, in some ways, is becoming more likeContinue reading “Nobody is really a pluralist, and why that’s okay”

Create Dissonance

A few things stuck with me from the general education classes I took in college. One of these was the idea of “cognitive dissonance.” In psychology, this is the idea of having two inconsistent thoughts, neither of which you want to give up. Having these contradictory ideas in your head at the same time causesContinue reading “Create Dissonance”

Feel strongly and think deeply

I wish people would start applying the old story of the elephant and the blind men to more than just religion. This little story really does a poor job explaining religions and a pretty good job explaining a lot of other things. For the uninitiated: Three blind men stand next to an elephant. (For ourContinue reading “Feel strongly and think deeply”

Book review: Evangelism in a Skeptical World – Sam Chan

Christianity is true. Now, if that is the case, it makes sense that worldviews that deny Christianity are false. And since they are false, if you poke and prod them enough, you will find the (sometimes gaping) holes in them. Now there is a very unfortunate tendency among some Christians to find those holes, tellContinue reading “Book review: Evangelism in a Skeptical World – Sam Chan”

Racism and Bargain-Bin Philosophy

The best explanation that I’ve ever read of how philosophy affects our everyday life was written by author Rachel Jankovich. She writes, “Worldly philosophers and thinkers have always been something like the high-fashion designers who live in a sort of alternative reality. They make unbelievably stupid outfits for unbelievably tall and harsh looking people withContinue reading “Racism and Bargain-Bin Philosophy”

The Pascal Two-Step

I really first started following hard after Jesus when I was in college and, for better or for worse, I was also a philosophy major. I loved the department, but it tends to draw more people who are hostile to Christianity than say, the math department. So I developed an affection to apologetics akin toContinue reading “The Pascal Two-Step”