Kindling Conversations with Modesto Neighbors
You want to love your neighbor as yourself, but it’s hard to get to know them in the space between when the garage door opens and closes. No one answers the door anymore, because the only ones knocking...
View Article6 blogposts you won’t find on Ichthus77
Sometimes I do stuff somewhere else. Here are 6 of those times, over at The Christian Apologetics Alliance: Does The Moral Argument Reify Subjective Morality? 10/7/14 Matthew Lawrence wrote in this...
View ArticleEthics & Morality
Pontius Pilate’s “What is Truth?” – stylized inscription at entrance to Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Família (Barcelona).Below is a collection of my thinking on the grounding and justification of moral...
View ArticleThe Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas
The CAA read The Gospel in the Marketplace of Ideas: Paul’s Mars Hill Experience for Our Pluralistic World by Paul Copan and Kenneth D. Litwak, as part of Apologetics 315’s weekly Read Along program....
View ArticleDiscussing with my sons the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/us/gender-bias-could-tip-chief-justice-roberts-into-ruling-for-gay-marriage.html We just had a really great discussion (Ethan is 17, David 14) on the U.S. Supreme...
View ArticlePremeditated organ harvesting via partial birth abortion & what you can do to...
I teach my boys (age 14 and 17) Christian apologetics, especially during summer break. Yesterday we read Tim Keller’s chapter from The Reason for God on knowing God exists through knowing right and...
View Article#DefundPP ASAP: Urge your senators to vote yes on S.1881
Slavery on demand and without apology!Genocide on demand and without apology!Abortion on demand and without apology!Please read:...
View ArticleWhy does God allow sin? A bit of a different take.
This question was submitted by a woman via email in preparation for an apologetics discussion my sister and I held this past weekend at a women’s retreat hosted by Redeemer Modesto, our church home. I...
View Article#Good: Still thinking about QoW #379
Hi Dr. Craig. Still chewing on QoW #379. I keep coming back to this video, especially Q & A, especially 01:01:07 & context … do you address Aquinas & divine simplicity (as relates to the...
View ArticleWhy do bad/good things happen to good/bad people?
Thesis: Bad things happen to bad people, good things happen to good people (according to Job’s friends, Pharisees, & prosperity preachers…& those who believe in karma). Antithesis: Good...
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