Ken Ham Thinks Vegetables Undermine the Authority of Scripture: (Ham’s Beef with Phil Vischer, the State of Evangelicalism Today, and My Take of it All)

Last Friday, on December 11th, Phil Vischer, the creator of Veggie Tales, put out a very good and informative video entitled, What is an “Evangelical”? in which he gave a brief history lesson on where modern Evangelicalism came from and the challenges it now faces. Yesterday, on December 15th, Ken Ham of the YEC organization…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 6: God as Spirit)

In this post, I will discuss the next chapter of Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way. Chapter 5 is entitled, “God as Spirit,” and (as the title suggests) discusses the Holy Spirit, as well as some of the components of the spiritual life. As Ware says at the beginning of the chapter, “The whole aim…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 5b): God as Man (more thoughts on the Incarnation, Suffering, Death, and Victory)

In this post, I will further discuss the second part of chapter 5 of Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way, “God as Man,” which focuses on the mystery of the incarnation and all that it entails. After emphasizing that the Incarnation was ultimately about God effecting the next stage of man’s journey from being a creature…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 5a): God as Man (The Incarnation…and more musings about time and eternity)

In this post, I will discuss chapter 5 of Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way, “God as Man,” which focuses on the mystery of the incarnation and all that it entails. Beginning his chapter with a passage from T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Wasteland” that talks about a mysterious person walking beside the poet, Ware states that…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 4b): God as Creator (…and the question of the nature of man)

In this post, I will go through the second part of the chapter entitled, “God as Creator” in Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way. The second part of the chapter largely focuses on the creation of man and the issue of what man is. Truth be told, I do not thing churches do a very…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 4a): God as Creator

The next chapter in Bishop Kallistos Ware’s classic, The Orthodox Way, is entitled, “God as Creator.” There is so much packed into this chapter, that it will take two posts to actually unpack it. For about three years, I wrote quite a lot about the creation/evolution debate in general, and specifically about Ken Ham and…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 3): God as Trinity

I don’t care what you say, but for most people—even most Christians—the concept of the Trinity is one of those things that receives quizzical looks and isn’t really understood. I remember in high school Bible class occasionally talking about it as if it were some kind of algebraic puzzle: How is it possible to have…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 2b): Pointers to God/God’s Essence and Energies

In Bishop Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way, the first chapter is entitled, “God as Mystery.” In Part 2a, I looked at the first half of the chapter. Here in 2b, I will proceed to look at the second half. In the second half of the chapter, “God as Mystery,” Ware builds off the idea…

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Genesis Impact? Not So Much: My Thoughts on an Odd Little Video by Ray Comfort

A few days ago, someone in one of the Facebook Creation/Evolution groups I follow posted a link to an hour-long video entitled, “Genesis Impact,” and commented that it looked like something from Ken Ham and Answers in Genesis. His comment basically was, “Is it even worth it bother watch it?” Well, I figured that I…

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Orthodox Book Series: “The Orthodox Way” by Kallistos Ware (Part 2a): God as Mystery

In Bishop Kallistos Ware’s book, The Orthodox Way, the first chapter is entitled, “God as Mystery.” It is an apt title because it gets to, what I feel, is a fundamental difference in emphasis between Orthodox Christianity and the Evangelical Christianity in which I grew up. At the risk of being too over-simplistic, much of…

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