Jason Lisle Picks a Fight with William Lane Craig (Part 2 of my look at Lisle’s critique of WLC’s new book)

A few days ago, I started a series on the recent criticisms that YECist Jason Lisle has had about William Lane Craig’s new book, The Quest for the Historical Adam. As I said in Part 1, I haven’t yet read WLC’s book, but have seen a few interviews and read a few articles about it….

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Jason Lisle, William Lane Craig, and the Historical Adam Walk into a Bar… (Part 1)

Last month, Jason Lisle of the young earth creationist organization, Biblical Science Institute, began a blog series in which he critiqued William Lane Craig’s recent book, The Quest for the Historical Adam. To date, he has written two parts in his series with more to come. Now, I haven’t written that much lately on either…

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A Creative “Modernizing” of the Book of Habakkuk–What would its message be if modernized for America?

Chances are that virtually no one reading this post is an “expert” in the minor prophets. In fact, if we were being totally honest, aside from a few more famous verses among the Old Testament prophets, most people’s eyes quickly glaze over if and when they try to actually sit down and read, let’s say,…

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Soviet Democracy…I Mean Socialist Democracy…I Mean Democratic Socialism (Part 2)

Back during the 2020 presidential primaries, Bernie Sanders was asked for his reaction to Donald Trump calling him a Communist. He replied by saying he was Democratic Socialist, and then said, “Obviously, I’m not a Communist. Maybe President Trump doesn’t know the difference.” Okay, so what is the difference between a Communist and a Democratic…

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Soviet Democracy: Straight from the Politburo’s Mouth (and how the description is eerily similar to “Democratic Socialism”)

Twenty-eight years ago, in 1993, I was in the first Peace Corps group to go into Kazakhstan, one of the former republics of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had fallen a mere 18 months before I stepped foot in Kazakhstan, so it is no exaggeration to say that my time in the Peace Corps…

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Some Self-Reflection from “On the Spectrum”–a new book by Daniel Bowman Jr about being an autistic adult

Earlier this month, someone I follow on social media posted a short endorsement of Daniel Bowman Jr’s book, On the Spectrum: Autism, Faith, and the Gifts of Neurodiversity. It didn’t say much about the book, other than basically, “Hey, great book!” Given the fact that my 10-year-old son is on the spectrum, the little blurb…

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A Look at Michael Heiser’s Book, “Demons”

One of the books I read over the summer was Michael Heiser’s book, Demons: What the Bible Really Says About the Powers of Darkness. In many ways, it is very similar to his earlier book, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. A few years ago, I wrote a short book analysis…

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Remembering 9/11…Twenty Years Later

Twenty years ago, on the morning of September 11th, 2001, at 6:55 am pacific time, I was sleeping in my basement apartment in Langley, British Columbia. September 11th was going to be the first day of classes at Trinity Western University, where I was about to start my second master’s program, this one in the…

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Critical Race Theory (Part 8): My Grand Conclusion! What I’ve Learned in My Reading of CRT and What I Feel the Proper Christian/Gospel Response Should Be

Earlier this summer, before I decided to take the time to read the three books I have covered in this series on critical race theory, I didn’t feel I really knew enough about it to say anything about it. I had heard a few talking heads on cable news decry it as Marxist and racist…

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Critical Race Theory (Part 7): The Arguments in Ibram X. Kendi’s Book, “How to Be an Antiracist”

We now come to Part 7 of my look at Critical Race Theory, specifically my critique of the arguments in Ibram X. Kendi’s book, How to be an Antiracist. Although he is not technically a critical race theorist, it is safe to say that his book, indeed he entire outlook, is derived from the basic…

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