Calling the American church out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of the faith
This episode overviews the hallmarks of Modernism and Postmodernism and how the rise of these things helps to explain the retreat of the American Church from the life of the mind. It also overviews some of internal reasons why the church retreated from the life of the mind, since there are and were reasons why … Read More “The Retreat of the Church from the Life of the Mind” »
In this second part of our two week overview of our intellectual history, we examine some of the things that led contemporary western culture away from the central tenets of Christian theism, and at the initially optimistic and later more pessimistic ideas that emerged. As we introduce the concepts of Modernism and Postmodernism, we are … Read More “Revisiting Our Intellectual History (Part 2)” »
As we continue to discuss embracing the life of the mind as part of our pursuit of a deeper Christian life, we survey our intellectual history in an effort to understand some of the things that have brought us where we are. In this first part of a two week overview of that history, we … Read More “Revisiting Our Intellectual History (Part 1)” »
Episode 3 begins our exploration of the first of our four big themes – embrace the life of the mind, the Christian faith is rational – as we discuss the importance of both knowing God and loving God, and of embracing both mind and heart in our walk with God.
I wanted to post an update on my forthcoming podcast. I’ve been hard at work adapting material I gathered for my book on the shallowness of the American Church and the need to go deeper into podcast episodes. To this point, I’ve recorded 13 episodes, and my guess is that I’ll need about 30 to … Read More “Podcast is Coming” »
As I indicated in the last post, I have recently finished a rough draft of a book I call Further Up, Further In, which is an invitation to move out of the shallows and into the deeper waters of our faith, to pursue a deeper walk with Christ. It’s an area of personal passion, and … Read More “New Projects – Part 2” »
I would imagine most of those people – people, not bots looking for blogposts to attach inane comments to – who find my site do so because of one of my novels. It would make sense, then, that most of the people who read this post might think of me as a novelist, a fiction … Read More “New Projects – Part 1” »
He’s alive. As crazy as it sounds, it’s true. I wouldn’t have believed it possible, but I’ve seen the tomb with my own eyes. More than that, though, I’ve seen Him. It started this morning when the women came hurrying back to us, full of crazy babblings about the stone being rolled away and the … Read More “Peter’s Story – Easter” »
Now that I have cover art for The Colder Moon, I wanted to share it. As with The Darker Road and The Lesser Sun, the cover was designed by Daryle Beam of Bright Boy Designs and illustrated by his brother-in-law, Michael Salter. And, like those covers, I think it looks great.
As a young teacher I learned a valuable lesson: the hardest paper to grade was always the first one. The longer I put it off, the more I procrastinated and did something else, the larger the stack of waiting papers loomed and the more difficult it was to start. On the other hand, if I … Read More “First Steps” »
