Worldview

"He wrote me an eloquent letter in which he used his training in philosophy to wonder out loud if Christianity is merely a set of Jungian archetypes, a set of myth-making stories that echo something deep in the human psyche that somehow over evolutionary millennia we have found useful. ...Here was my response." - Mark Ward

"I’m not sure these researchers fully engage [the worldview concept] and the complexity that often arises.  For example, is morality based on a transcendent absolute or do we make it up for ourselves? OK, we can see that social conservatives believe the former, while social liberals believe the latter. But..." - Gene Veith

"Whether or not God could give a sentient machine or a human clone a soul is a different question....The unique description of humans as created in the image of God should lead us to think it highly unlikely that a machine or a clone would receive similar status." - BPNews

"Despair is what results, and it’s what I heard beneath my neighbor’s lament. Such despair and empty moral imperatives also are on display in global protests over climate change." - WORLD

"'My dream is to one day ...quit my job and do real kingdom work.' ...But at the same time, I cringe at the false dichotomy I hear in statements like this. As if 'real kingdom work' only takes place when one is volunteering at church or getting a paycheck from a nonprofit organization." - Daniel Darling

"Paul Gould’s new book Cultural Apologetics addresses these issues by setting forth a fresh model for cultural engagement, rooted in the biblical account of Paul's speech on Mars Hill, which details practical steps for reestablishing the Christian voice, conscience, and imagination." - Breakpoint

"As Christians, we often acknowledge Christ’s rule over things like human dignity, marriage, and maybe even our finances, but we often miss how central a Christian view of time is to a truly Christian worldview. Thus, we often find our time hijacked, assumed, taken for granted, killed, wasted, and even forgotten." - Breakpoint

A review of Greg Forster's new book Economics: A Student’s Guide--aimed at helping Christian students confronted with anti-Christian thinking on economics. - Acton