Metaxas: Atheism Is Dead
by Mark BauerleinEric Metaxas joins the podcast to discuss his book, Is Atheism Dead? Continue Reading »
The Science of Adam
by Kenneth KempTheology seems to require a “first parent” of the human race. How does that square with recent findings?
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Mytho-History in Genesis
by William Lane CraigWilliam Lane Craig defends his reading of Genesis against its critics. Continue Reading »
Doubts About William Lane Craig’s Creation Account
by Peter J. LeithartIt’s doubtful that Craig’s minimalist creation account can nourish the Evangelical imagination or sustain Christian orthodoxy. Continue Reading »
Catholic “Beliefs” and the Abortion Debate
by George WeigelThe correct answer to the question of when human life begins is not a matter of faith; it is a matter of scientific fact. Continue Reading »
Bellarmine at 400
by Raymond J. de SouzaThe 400th anniversary of the death of Robert Bellarmine invites a look back at this fascinating figure of the Catholic Reformation, engaged as he was with issues newly relevant today: the relationship of faith and science and of ecclesial and temporal power. Continue Reading »
Dreams of Heaven
by Jeffrey A. SmithThe Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by john gray farrar, straus and giroux, 288 pages, $24 Few historians of culture would think to suggest a similarity between the death throes of Victorian England and the first decades of Soviet totalitarianism—but . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Dennett Hunts the Snark
by David Bentley HartIn the second section—or “fit”—of Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, the Bellman lectures the crew of his ship on the peculiar traits of the creature they have just crossed an ocean to find. There are, he tells his men, “five unmistakable marks” by which genuine Snarks . . . . Continue Reading »
Making the Wager
by Edward T. OakesGod: The Evidence. The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World By Patrick Glynn Prima. 224 pp. $22 In 1987 a famous political leader gave this diagnosis of the ills of his society: “Interest in the common good has slackened, callousness and skepticism now dominate the political . . . . Continue Reading »
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