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Is the “Sinner’s Prayer” a Superstitious Act?

By Sharon at She Worships Earlier this month the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) voted on a resolution to affirm the use of the Sinner’s Prayer as a means of conversion. For those who don’t speak evangelic…
Pascal's Wager: What it Tells Us About Ourselves

Imagine you are making your way into the grocery store. As you enter, an employee stops you and says, "Excuse me, there may be a bomb in the building." What would you do? Most likely, you wouldn't enter. I know I wouldn'…
Two Perspectives on Love

This first perspective is from Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand is what you would call an Objectivist. That is, that reason and logic is the only true way through which we can acquire knowledge--implicitly rejecting religion and fait…
A Scientific View on Creation & the Beginning of the Universe

Those of you who know me will know that I am scientifically inquisitive, and while I prefer empirical evidence above all other evidence, sometimes philosophy and logic is the way to go in things that cannot be empiricall…
Theoretical and Practial Problems of Grace

By Will Green Suppose two people are having a conversation about tennis matches between the world's best tennis players and one person asks, "But what would happen if someone got to the Grand Final and instead of playin…
Christian Anarchy

"The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil...The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power, the Kingdom of God is anarchy." Nicolas Berdyaev Who d…
Unknowable Unknowables: Of God and the Knowledge of Him

By Will Green There's a quote from former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, from 2002, which gives an interesting insight into the subject of knowledge, although it was criticised at the time as an odd sounding stat…
Thinking About God: The "One" and Only

Time and time again, people have been wrestling with the idea of the “One” encompassing all others. In my daily struggles as a "baby" Christian, I've been attempting to come to terms with the idea of God. I…
What is Your Philosophy on Religion?

I was listening to a fairly prominent conservative talk radio host the other night as I was driving home from a concert. He was talking about God. He didn't narrow down the conversation any more than that. He just wanted…
Why My Catholic Grad School is more Challenging than Public Schools

I have gone to public schools all my life. Yes, that includes elementary, high school and college undergrad. I was fed a steady diet of Roe v. Wade is a civil rights landmark, and "I will not tolerate intolerance" was a…