Author: Stephen Dawe

  •   Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. – Proverbs 25:25 It’s Monday morning in Louisville Kentucky. I’ve just finished my morning devotions after the long trip from Newfoundland, Canada, and after having done my morning devotions, I’m preparing to go to the pre-conference for T4G 2016.…

  • Reading:God’s Not Dead 2: As a Christian with some legal training, I’m a little apprehensive about how the law and Christian belief will be presented in this film. Though I am happy to see these issues being brought up in the public discourse. Opens this weekend. Mmmm…. Chicken: I wonder if the purchase of St.…

  • I am not the greatest for discipline. If you’ve been waiting for me to write here, you’ve been disappointed and I’m sorry. I could say that with the new work at my local Church, I’ve gotten busier, or that the last semester of classwork has been more diffficult than expected. Both would be true, but…

  • This is part II in a series on redemption. In yesterday’s post I talked about the puzzling problem of a culture that seems to love redemption, but doesn’t seem at all compelled by the real redemption that is central to the Christian message. Why is that? I think the problem lies in two separate but…

  • Persecution: A New York Times opinion piece points out why Christians should see the white supremacist habit of picking on Black Churches as persecution of the Church. Apologetics: While (at staggeringly great length) taking issue with “natural atheology”, Edward Feser argues that Apologetics isn’t just an intellectually dishonest branch of rhetoric. Media: GetReligion today shows…