Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 by Ty Wallace posted in Political Issues | Comments Off

The Christian Post is reporting that the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a state constitutional amendment today that affirms traditional marriage and bans same-sex civil unions. The court ruled 7-0, stating in the opinion that "the marriage amendment was adopted by the people of Wisconsin using the process prescribed by the constitution, and is properly now part of our constitution." A victory indeed in the fight to preserve "traditional marriage."

Another Blow To Religious Freedom: Supreme Court Rules against Christian Legal Group

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 by Ty Wallace posted in Political Issues | Comments Off

In yet another blow to our religious freedoms, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that a Christian student group must accept gays and non-Christians as members if it wants to be officially recognized by a public university. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the court's 5-4 majority, said the "all-comers" policy at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law is "reasonable" and "viewpoint neutral."

God of the Gaps

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

You've probably heard the term "God of the Gaps" before. If not, another phrase used for this concept is the "argument from ignorance." This is basically an anti-theist argument which tries to make theists look like wishful thinkers. The main premise is that the anti-theist claims that believers will give the credit to God for anything that they can't think of a natural explanation for. Essentially, they like to make it look like we just throw ...

Straw Men

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Bible & Scripture | Comments Off

There are so many interesting (and often humorous) ways non-believers attack Christianity. From moral arguments against Christianity (yeah, right!) to the Problem of Evil to the so-called Euthyphro Dilemma and so on. One of the ones that I find the most hilarious is when they start trying to pick apart the Bible itself and try to point out inconsistencies. For example, I remember once hearing a call-in, public-access TV show asking callers (specifically Christians) to call ...

The Problem of Naturalism

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Evangelism | Comments Off

Lately, I've thought a bit about the idea of what is known as "naturalism."  There have been a lot of different thoughts about why this philosophy does not have the explanatory scope or power necessary to explain much of the universe. However, I've been thinking about a different aspect of naturalism lately. Mostly, I've been thinking about how closed-minded and limited this worldview is. Ironic that I would feel that way, considering most people would argue ...

Wearing the Bulls-Eye

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

One thing that one commonly hears about Christianity is that once a person accepts Christ, they begin to experience a lot more trouble. You might think that I'm going to go into people's impression that accepting Christ meant that life would be easy, but that's not where I'm going with this. (Though, that would be good, too!) Instead, I'd like to address something that I've heard from non-believers. Often, I've heard rebuttals to this that basically ...

“Middle” Knowledge

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 by Dan Carrington posted in God's Character | Comments Off

This week, I thought I'd try getting into some things that are not very well-known. Namely, the concept of "middle" knowledge. You're probably wondering what the heck that is and it's my purpose here to do my best to explain the concept. The concept of middle knowledge has been attributed to the sixteenth-century theologian, Luis de Molina. But before we get too far into what this is, it might bear some explanation of a couple of ...