Clement of Rome is considered to be the first Apostolic Father of the Church, or more properly speaking, the first major figure in Christian history after the time of the apostles themselves. No one is sure about when he was born, but it is believed he was born around AD 35 in Rome and eventually…
This post is the start of something different I will occasionally do on my blog. Having grown up in the Evangelical world of the 70s-80s, I was deeply influenced by some truly great Christian music that came out of that time. And so, I thought I wanted to share that music that I love so…
Having grown up within Evangelicalism, even though my family went regularly to church and even though I went to a Christian high school, I really knew nothing about Church History. Sure, I knew the names of Martin Luther, John Calvin, maybe Saint Augustine—but I didn’t really know anything about them. And, quite obviously, beyond those…
Here in my last post about Calvin Smith’s (of Answers in Genesis) two-part series on the “heretical” BioLogos, I want to focus on the last part of his second article, where he takes specific aim at Peter Enns, Denis Lamoureux, Karl Giberson, Kenton Sparks, and Joseph Bankard. I’ve read quite a bit of Enns and…
Last week, Calvin Smith at Answers in Genesis wrote an online article entitled, “BioLogos: House of Heresy and False Teaching, Part 1,” in which he lambasted the BioLogos organization for spreading heresy and false teaching. Earlier this week, I wrote my own post on Smith’s invective. Well, he has now come out with “Part 2”…
Last week, Calvin Smith at Answers in Genesis started a blog series about BioLogos, the organization started by Francis Collins that, in a nutshell, tries to ease the fears of many Evangelicals regarding evolution by trying to show that the scientific theory of evolution does not conflict with the Bible and the Christian faith. Smith’s…
It has been a week, and I now am getting around to writing my commentary and thoughts to Robert McKenzie’s book, We the Fallen People (which I summarized in Part 1). At the beginning of his book, McKenzie spoke of the need to think critically about core issues involving American democracy if we want to…
This week, I thought I’d do another short book analysis series on Robert Tracy McKenzie’s new book, We the Fallen People. McKenzie is a Wheaton College professor, and one of my dad’s old friends from his own Wheaton College days helped McKenzie as he wrote the book. Long story short, my dad gave me a…
Two years ago, I wrote a book review of Gregg Davidson’s Friend of Science, Friend of Faith. Well, technically, it wasn’t quite 730 days ago—that review was posted January 10th 2020, so that would be 723 days ago, or (if you really like to go by weeks) 103 weeks ago. And since whenever we are…
We now come to Part 4 of my book analysis series on William Lane Craig’s book, In Quest for the Historical Adam. We will finish off 2021 by looking at the second half of Craig’s book (chapters 8-13), in which he attempts to give a scientific answer to the question of the historical Adam. William…