The Benedict Option–Book Review (Part 5): Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby…
Let me state up front: I don’t particularly like this post. I don’t think a single post on this topic will ever be adequate. In this final post of my review/ana...
Category: Western Culture
The Benedict Option: Book Review (Part 4)–Christian Politics and Christian Education…Hey Conservative Christians, it’s Time to Re-assess a Few Things
How should Christians today navigate the current cultural landscape? That’s really the fundamental question Rod Dreher addresses in his book, The Benedict Optio...
The Benedict Option Book Review (Part 3): Secularism and the Gay Marriage/LGBTQ Debate
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher has certainly garnered a lot of attention over the past month. As I mentioned in Part 1 of my overview of Dreher’s book, it ha...
The Benedict Option (Part 2): What Other Option Do I Have, Other Than to at Least Provide an Overview?
Rod Dreher’s book, The Benedict Option, has garnered quite a lot of attention over the past month. According to many progressives, it is alarmist tripe that is ...
Church History/Creation Evolution Debate/Friedrich Nietzsche/Ken Ham/Philosophy/Social and Cultural Issues/The New Atheist Movement/Universals/Western Culture/Worldview
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 57): Draper and White’s False Narrative of the Conflict Between Science and Faith
As one should be able to see from the last number of posts, the 19th century was a pivotal century. There was the struggle for the soul of European Christianity...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 56): Now for something a bit different…Poetry, Art, Music, and Perspective
When I was in college, I fell in love with poetry and literature, and some of the most influential literature I came across of that of the 19th century Romantic...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 55): Soren Kierkegaard–Getting Naked and Self-Conscious, and the Meaning of Faith
There is one more 19th century philosopher I want to draw our attention to: the Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). When Kierkegaard died in 1855...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 54): Friedrich Nietzsche–The Philosopher of the Hammer
Deism, Enlightenment thought, the influence of the industrial revolution, Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx…with a little bit of Darwin thrown in—with all this going...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 53): Darwinism, Genocide, and the Fear of Evangelicalism
In the last few posts, I have been going into detail about Charles Darwin, and his books, The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. And whereas I have tried...
The Ways of the Worldviews (Part 52): Charles Darwin and The Descent of Man–Yes, Racism and Eugenics are Really Bad
If my previous two posts about Charles Darwin has come across as a validation of Darwin’s theory of evolution, it should, at least partly. The point I wanted to...