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Mar 14, 20213 min read
Iowa Caucus Speech 2016
At this point in the General Election campaign (mid-October 2016) many of us are wishing things had gone differently. In an elegiac...

Science and Christian Faith & Classical political Liberalism
At this point in the General Election campaign (mid-October 2016) many of us are wishing things had gone differently. In an elegiac...
Our faculty and staff reading group is currently reading Rosenberg’s delightful book. I’m storing my thoughts as we go along here on the...
1. What Rosenberg means when he asserts that there is no purpose in nature is essentially correct. But it’s hard to avoid language that...
1. Why should the fact that physics fixes all the facts make it hard to find room for moral facts? If physics fixes all the facts, then...
1. Whatever experiments such as Libet’s imply about free will or its lack is indirect. At face value, what they support is some kind of...
There doesn’t seem to be much to say about Chapter 7. Taking heed of scientific knowledge of the human mind/brain, including what it...
There is no question but that particular goings on in the frog brain play an indispensable role in explaining how frogs catch flies. If...
If, as a materialist might reasonably believe, a brain is a mind in virtue of the structure of its neuronal interconnections, and a mind...
Rosenberg tells us that there’s little hope of ascertaining the meaning of any individual human action because the particular motives...
Naturalism and the Christian Faith Rosenberg makes scientism the defining feature of naturalism. (I tend to agree, though I prefer to...
Some responses to a survey someone sent me on the subject of prayer What is prayer? Prayer is speaking with God, i.e., speaking to God...
Questions I was asked to answer for a Forum on the Christian Faith and Evolution 1. Why is this issue important? What is at stake in the...
Memorial Colloquium for John F. Kennedy, Aldous Huxley, and C. S. Lewis 21 November 2003 I shouted out, “Who killed the Kennedys?” When...
Earlier (February 2009), as a reason to believe that God exists, I offered the fact that the universe existing as the result of the free...
Paradoxicon The Northwestern College philosophy department once went on a binge of devising self-referential statements. Once thought...
1. I know of no one who has anything like a perspicacious, serious understanding of the Christian gospel and rejects it. What’s widely...
Education for Ministry (EFM) is a prgram for lay theological education widely used in the Episcopal Church. Participants write a...
Several members of the NWC Philosophy Department recently attended a conference on heaven and hell at a famous evangelical college. Here,...
Northwestern College Baccalaureate 9 May 2014 O God, gracious and wise, consider these students, your servants, your sons and daughters,...
I feel I owe a debt of gratitude to Adolf Hitler. Not to say that I approve of the man and his works. One of leftist statism’s worst...