“Inerrancy is the view that when all the facts become known, they will demonstrate that the Bible in its original autographs and correctly interpreted is entirely true and never false in all it affirms, whether that relates to doctrines or ethics or to the social, physical, or life sciences.” [1] Biblical inerrancy is foundational to [...]

I’ve followed Ross Douthat for a while now, well before he became an online and op-ed columnist for The New York Times, one of its few conservative voices and the youngest op-ed writers in the paper’s history. He’s one of the country’s great thinkers, in my estimate. So I was excited with the release of [...]

I was meeting with a group of writer friends not long ago. We’re all in different places — some published to varying degrees, some on the cusp, and others still plowing forward. None of us is wildly successful. None of us has arrived. None of us makes enough off of royalties or advances to write [...]

After the devastating Oklahoma tornadoes, some were quick to use the event as evidence of God’s non-existence. The day after, J.M. Green at Debunking Christianity asked Why do Christians pray after disaster? Who would want to be comforted by someone who was able to help during a crisis but stood idly by? …If you are [...]

This list of “goth friendly” churches (directory header –>) suggests that “a list of ‘subculture friendly’ churches should not even be necessary. All churches should be friendly & loving to ALL people.” One of the churches listed describes their target group as individuals who are: …unique, interesting, industrial, gothic, atheist, lost, oppressed, possessed, agnostic, disbelieving, fallen, in [...]

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. It also currently has 312 one-star reviews at Amazon and over 8,000 one-star reviews on Goodreads. Pulitzer Prize. Lotsa one- star reviews. Best book of the year. Worst book of the year. Classic! Piece of crap! I read the book when it first came out. It [...]

So I was thrilled to hear that long-time writing friend Christopher Fisher had released his first novel A History of Stone and Steel. Chris and I had crossed paths a while back at an online writer’s group. It wasn’t long after that he enrolled in the Stonecoast Creative Writing program, received his MFA, and resurfaced [...]

Our oldest daughter, Melody, went through quite a rebellious stretch in her senior year of high school. Up until that point, she’d been at the top of her class, a model student and child. Then something snapped (which occasionally happens to sixteen year-olds). She began lying to us, sneaking out of the house, and openly [...]

This very civil, very intelligent, debate about the legitimacy of homosexual relationships within Christianity is well worth 20 minutes of your viewing time. (Thanks to pastor friend Dennis McGuire for the link.) I’ll post some thoughts on this later, but I’d love to hear your observations.