Collin Garbarino

I’m reading through Augustine’s City of God with a fantastic group on Facebook. Augustine wrote the book about 1,600 years ago, but I’m continually struck by how applicable his insights can be.One of my new favorite bits might be this passage from the beginning of book two:And yet, will . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week, I asked if anyone wanted to join me on Facebook in reading Augustine’s City of God. The response overwhelmed me. I hoped about 30 people would join me, but the group currently has about 1,300 members. We’re having some lively discussion. I hope we can keep up the momentum . . . . Continue Reading »

Are you interested in reading one of the most influential books in the history of western civilization? Do you have five or ten minutes a day? If so, you should seriously consider reading City of God in 2014.This year I plan to read Augustine’s City of God from cover to cover. If I read a . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark Driscoll has been living with accusations of plagiarism for the last three weeks. A radio host spotted some suspicious passages in his latest book and asked him to make sure they were properly credited in future editions. Then she found some cut-and-paste passages in another of his works. ( . . . . Continue Reading »

Mega-church pastor Mark Driscoll just can’t seem to avoid controversy. He’s crass and brash, and he says outrageous things. He’s always making some Christian somewhere uncomfortable. This time, however, it’s not about the words that he’s said. It’s that . . . . Continue Reading »

The Atlantic ran an interview with David Thornburg, entitled “Lectures Didn’t Work in 1350­—and They Still Don’t Work Today.” It’s full of the typical technology-will-save-education balderdash. I’ll skip any comments on that topic. Let’s talk about this assertion that lectures . . . . Continue Reading »

Thailand is the only southeast-Asian nation that was never colonized by western powers, and the Thai pride themselves on being a “land of the free.” But now it seems that some in the West want to impose a bit of cultural imperialism on the Thai. Recently American media have criticized . . . . Continue Reading »

“Computer Scientists ‘Prove’ God Exists.” That’s the headline of an article from  last week on  Spiegel Online . The scientists who came up with the idea admit that they were just trying to grab some headlines for their work. According to  Spiegel : In . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s 2013. Have we learned nothing? Must we still put up with intolerant bigots telling us whom we can and can’t love? Earlier this week my social-media feeds erupted as left-leaning friends and acquaintances reacted to an interview in which author and teacher David Gilmour came out of . . . . Continue Reading »

This past spring, Kermit Gosnell was convicted of murdering babies and breaking numerous laws at his Philadelphia abortion clinic. Though he was found guilty by a jury of his peers, Gosnell maintains that he is “spiritually innocent.” In an article in Philadelphia Magazine , Gosnell . . . . Continue Reading »