Welch College Graduate Breakfast Charge: Thankfulness
On Friday, May 6, 2022, Welch College graduated forty-one students. I had the privilege of giving the charge at the Graduate Breakfast the day before. What follows is an adapted version of my speech. I begin with these simple words: I am proud of you. Not only have you persevered through your program of study, which is hard enough; but you have done so amid the added pressures created by the difficult circumstances of the past several...
Thinking Biblically About Political Discord
Do you find yourself frustrated and exhausted by political discourse—even among Christians?[1] Are you concerned that some seem to think of themselves first as Democrats, Republicans, or Independents, and second as Christians? Few things create strife like conversations about faith and politics. For that reason, many learned as children not to discuss politics or religion in polite company. That advice is helpful but only to a point....
Introducing C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity and Reviewing His Conversion
Through the month of March 2022, the HSF will publish three articles about themes in C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. The year 2022 marks the seventieth year since its publication in 1952. Jesse Owens will consider Lewis’s argument for a universal moral law, Chris Talbot will analyze Lewis’s argument from imagination, and Phillip Morgan will examine Lewis’s view of the virtues. In this way, these essays will touch on three key...
Reflecting on Andrew Peterson’s Wingfeather Saga
Sometimes people ask you about your favorite this or favorite that: your favorite color or animal or food or movie or book. For my part I hesitate to answer in such superlative terms because I like all kinds of things. Additionally, the identification of a favorite anything creates heightened expectations in others’ imaginations upon which reality cannot deliver. We have this experience when everyone you know says, “That movie is...
Christianity, Philosophy, and Natural Theology
While some may associate the subject of philosophy with eggheads who talk about old, dead Greeks and Romans, the truth is much more layered and exciting than that: Fundamentally, philosophy concerns our views of life, truth, the world, ethics, and other topics that form our basic worldviews. Consequently, it is relevant to our Christian confession. Yes, it includes discussion about history, but it is not limited to that by any means....
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