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Send your college kids to our Christian great books program and we’ll make them read atheists! Why? It’s a good question. There are some approaches to Christian education that would keep dangerous ideas away from the students, and would look at atheist texts purely for the sake of opposition research (Know Your Enemy and How to…

One of the professors who most impacted me over the course of my studies in theology was Daniel Migliore, Professor Emeritus of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. In fact, we even share a birthday, July 22—though he is my elder by some years. I found in Prof. Migliore something I had seen in others, but…

John Mark Reynolds, 2005. I want to clarify that when I worry about the birth rate in the nation I am not suggesting that the fault is all in this generation.  Sometimes those of us who worry about this kind of thing sound like selfish Scrooges wishing for no more Tiny Tims. Our culture makes it…

John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Disneyland Rides by Religious Tradition In order to lighten the national mood, or do my part in it, I have decided to do some research on which Disneyland rides should be favored by various Christian religious groups. Following hours of field study and reading, the following list is correct to the…

John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Is a Natural Disaster a Sign of God’s Judgment? This Sunday should the pastors of America thunder out a call for repentance based on the hurricane? If a television evangelist says that the hurricane is “God’s judgment” on somebody, is automatically he wrong to do so? What does a great natural…

John Mark Reynolds, 2005. As is usual at such a time, philosophers get asked, “Where is God?” during the hurricane. Of course most people asking these questions are hurting. Seemingly random and terrible things have happened to them and they want to know why. They are not usually looking for philosophy. My comments are not…

John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Michael was the younger son. His brother was given the family business since that was the way things were done. The oldest would run the firm while the rest were to contribute. In the early twentieth-century that was already a very old-fashioned notion, but Michael benefited in terms of prestige and…

John Mark Reynolds, 2005. J.R.R. Tolkien is one of the great Christian neo-Platonists of the twentieth century. With C.S. Lewis and A.E. Taylor, Tolkien was part of a revival of this traditional Christian synthesis with the work of the great Athenian. Tolkien’s works in the realm of imagination helped create an entire genre of literature,…

Father L. Dayton Reynolds, CEC, 2005. July 31 is the last “red” Sunday. We use red as the color for Pentecost. Pentecost Sunday was May 15 and our church has been reminded of the Gift of the Holy Spirit and His Power for over two months. On August 7 we turn green, or at least…

John Mark Reynolds, 2005. Read Part I here, and Part II here. Part III — On Books She turned and said with a thoughtful manner, she always had a thoughtful manner, “Books are no longer the literature of our culture. Movies are now way the masses receive truth.” So a seminar speaker, long ago, introduced…

John Mark Reynold, 2004. What has happened to American atheism? If internet content is any clue, then this is a movement in serious decline. With an aging set of arguments, it seems to survive mostly on a sense of superiority it gained in the fifties. This is sad, since atheism has had a long and…