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In defense of Rick Warren

14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. 17 Repay no one evil for evil, but give [...]

Angels and atheism

Angels seem to be beating atheism when it comes to popular belief in the U.S. Actually, not just angels, but hearing from God, witnessing miracles, being healed supernaturally, and other divine phenomenon. Frankly, this astounds me, considering what sort of rhetoric is being bandied about by the intelligentsia of our day. Apparently, the kind of [...]

An evolving perspective

I’ve been doing some intense thinking lately, which is why I haven’t posted in a little while. This intense thinking has led me to some intense answers, and rather than let my brain explode trying to hold it all in, I figured I’d unpack my inclinations a bit here on Finite Calls Infinite and start [...]

My theistic response to Martin Freedman

We’re going to take a little detour on the blog today because I’ve been taken to task, and perhaps rightly so, for my sloppy use of language in a post I wrote a while back concerning what I perceived as a paradox in the atheistic worldview. And just to avoid yet another round of confusion, [...]

Look Alike, Smell the Same

For those of you who remember that I was writing a blog series a couple of months ago, welcome back! To those who don’t have a clue what this is all about, please read the first two posts in this series: Look Normal, Smell Different, and Look Different, Smell Old. And now, without further ado, [...]

A real response to Muslims’ open letter

In contrast to the abysmal “Christian” response to the open letter from Muslim letters (you can find a link to it in the comments of a previous post), I was overjoyed to read this excellent rebuttal to the letter by the Barnabas Fund. In it, they educate Westerners on the finer points of Islamic outreach [...]

What if God invented postmodernism?

I’ve just started reading a fantastic book called Organic Church by Neil Cole, and it got me thinking about something I’ve been mulling over already for a while. Some people in church circles have been lamenting over the growth of postmodernism and pine for the good ol’ days when objective rationality and logical truth were [...]

Moral for a reason

When atheists (materialists) object to the theistic view of morality, saying that they can behave morally without needing a “god” or a “holy book” to tell them so, they miss the entire point of the debate. The question isn’t whether people can or do behave in moral ways (at least in terms of our collective [...]

Look Different, Smell Old

Continuing our series Look Normal, Smell Different, which examines the different ways Christians and the church typically relate to the world, I want to talk today about one of the ways we present ourselves as followers of Jesus which is causing a huge rift in the church and alienating the populace in two different but [...]

We do not worship the same god

I am extremely distressed over hearing this news about an open letter from Muslim leaders around the world which will soon be presented to leaders in the global Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches. In this letter, these leaders — respected names in the Islamic world — will reportedly entreat Christians to join with them to [...]