Author: Stephen Dawe

  • Many people will say that church isn’t all that interesting. At some level, that’s because people who have not been reborn of the Holy Spirit don’t generally enjoy the real things of God, but in addition to the direct sinfulness of humanity, I think we Christians may also bear part of the blame for the…

  • Avoiding Scandal: Marvin Olasky at World Magazine comments on a rule made by Billy Graham that may have saved Tullian Tchividjian from the present scandal. At some point I’ll need to reflect on grace in light of this. Intellectualism: An older article at the Atlantic deals with the ongoing odd assumption that intellectual rigor leads…

  • Nancy Pearcey, Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism and Other God Substitutes, 2015, David C. Cook Publishing With the cottage industry in Apologetics books coming out after the short-lived “New Atheist” revival of the early 21st century, it has become easy to find books at the local Christian bookstore dealing with “worldviews” and…

  • The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied. Proverbs 13:4 Work is Good Most people know that one needs to work in order to see good things come about. Well, maybe fewer people see it these days than in other generations, but it is clear…

  • It’s always been a bit of a puzzling maxim for me: People don’t change. I’ve heard it fairly frequently, whether it’s said positively, about some character trait of a person you’re depending on, or negatively about some person, and their character trait that is causing pain for others yet again. Yet what puzzles me is…