Christian Love, Secular Progress, and Holistic Higher Education
Ralph C. HancockNietzsche once suggested Christianity is vulnerable to appropriation by lofty humanitarian aspirations. Are we falling into that tendency unawares?
Bites of the Best Books: March 2020
Samuel B. HislopFive books that contain sentences, paragraphs, and pages full of unique ideas that move our minds, touch our hearts, and fill our souls with light.
Disagreeing Without Death Threats
Public Square StaffWe have reached a point where we expect violent responses any time we speek out on a controversial subject. But wouldn't we do better if we worked together?
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Good Reasons for Knowing Little
When I published my last essay on political ignorance, a friend of mine was kind enough to share it on his Facebook wall. One of the commenters hilariously posted the “I’m In This Photo and I Don’t Like It” meme in response, indicating that the information regarding...
If More Treatment Is the Answer, Why Haven’t the Numbers Gone Down?
Just this week, a friend called to tell me he was on the way to a hospital to visit his daughter who had attempted to take her life. A few weeks ago, another friend confided his niece had made the same heartbreaking attempt. A month before that, a beautiful young man...
Is Sexuality Who We Are or What We Do?
As I have attempted to show over the course of this series of essays (here, here, and here), it is often the case that many of our doubts and struggles with our faith are rooted in unrecognized assumptions we have unwittingly absorbed from the larger secular culture...