Occupation: Writer Birth: 1965
God's pleasure--the beauty creation possesses in his regard--underlies the distinct being of creation, and so beauty is the first and truest word con….
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining priso….
Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that….
For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides ….
The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the dir….
Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pil….
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion in general. But….
true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hope….
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of oth….
But, in fact, materialism is among the most problematic of philosophical standpoints, the most impoverished in its explanatory range, and among the m….
For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but b….
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former..
The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern person….
Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the….
physics explains everything, which we know because anything physics cannot explain does not exist, which we know because whatever exists must be expl….
The one reality you can't evade is personal experience..
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many vict….
The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insuff….
Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model ….
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -….
Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciou….