I get this question a lot. And now, instead of just pointing people to The Colossian Forum Manifesto or other articulations of our mission and vision, I can point them to a concrete embodiment of what we’re trying to foster: a charitable, respectful conversation between young earth creationist Todd Wood and evolutionary creationist Dennis Venema. See…
Mark Oppenheimer can’t fathom what a “Christian sociology” would be, as evidenced by his odd piece on the recent controversy swirling around Mark Regnerus’ study of the children of gay & lesbian parents. Published in today’s New York Times, Oppenheimer raises questions about “the role of faith in scholarship.” Oppenheimer clearly approaches the matter with…
On October 11, 2012 I presented the Meeter Center Lecture, “‘Lift Up Your Hearts’: John Calvin’s Catholic Faith.” (It was a delicious irony that I was delivering this talk on Calvin’s Catholic faith on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of Vatican II–when the Roman church finally began listening to him!) I’m making the talk…
I’ve noticed a different sensibility amongst Christian philosophers of my generation–we who are heirs to some of the path-breakers like Plantinga and Wolterstorff and Mavrodes and others. For someone like Plantinga, Christian theism makes a difference for our philosophizing. There are unique convictions, knowledge, and perspectives rooted in Christian revelation that generate unique philosophical accounts (of…
In September’s Christianity Today magazine I published a short article entitled, “What Galileo’s Telescope Can’t See” (now available online) which also gets at some of the core themes that concern us at The Colossian Forum on Faith, Science, and Culture. The article pushes back on a tendency to immediately equate contemporary discussions at the intersection of…
The Protestant “sanctification of ordinary life” (as Charles Taylor often describes it) can generate a curious question: “If all of life is worship, then why do I need to go to church?” I address this question in “Sanctification for Ordinary Life,” an article in Reformed Worship now available online.