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What does it mean that God is “personal”? Roughly speaking, that he is “like us” in many ways. But for Jews and Christians, it is actually we who are like him: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27). …
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Recently I’ve had long discussions (and debates) with a good friend of mine, a Millennial, on topics such as religion, sex, morality, and more. This friend, while not an atheist/materialist, would identify as “spiritual but not religious” and has a strong aversion towards organized religion and dogma. In these discussions I noticed a curious way …
I’m currently reading The Essential Jonathan Edwards by Owen Strachan and Douglas Sweeney, a compact introduction to the great pastor-theologian’s life and teachings. I may later write about the book as a whole, but my discussion here centers around a curious description from the authors about the Northampton revival Edwards presided over. If ministers in …
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Underlying Christian discussions about the nature of salvation are philosophical assumptions about possibility and the nature of God. We often are trying to square Christian doctrines with philosophical consistency when we discuss how individuals are saved, and this is a worthwhile goal. Therefore, evaluating the philosophical worldviews we each bring to both the biblical text …
I wrote the following essay for a philosophy class titled “Contemporary Moral Issues”. One of the main units was about the morality of abortion. Though one might think that a class at a major campus (UW Madison) in one of the most progressive cities in America would be anything but balanced, the arguments presented were …
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What follows is a paper I wrote for a class I took my first semester of college in the fall of 2017, titled “Philosophical Reflections on Science and Technology”. The class itself was my first formal introduction to the philosophical mode of thought and dialogue–we read writers such as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Ellul, and Neil …
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