Following a recent essay discussing the worldview of postmodern liberalism, I received a response, as follows: Your essay would have value if there were absolutes. Never have been, never will be … We decide what is good and what is evil, and in every case we are right and wrong at one and the same…
Category: Christianity
Essays relating to Christianity, or explaining key aspects of the Christian faith
2. The Temperature of Hell
This is the second of two posts on the subject of Hell. The first may be found here: The Death of Hell On an earlier post about grace and Karma, a commenter posed this question: I’d like to ask you a question because you strike me as an intelligent man of faith. I was taught…
1. The Death of Hell
After a recent essay about grace and Karma, I was asked a challenging question: I was taught that hell is a place of eternal conscious torment, a nice euphemism for a torture chamber. Do you believe that those of us who fail to accept grace will be tortured? If not, why not? Augustine and Calvin…
Revolution of the Soul
Recently, through the lens of my profession, I have been given a rather stark and disturbing vision of our current cultural revolution. It is, it seems, a revolution every bit as pervasive and transformational — and destructive — as China’s Cultural Revolution of the 60s — and indeed may be but a different manifestation of…