Category Archives: Apologetics

Apologetics, Calvinism, Christianity, Culture, Discipleship

Online Reading (Feb 23, 2022)

Some more links for your reading (or given our culture, skimming) pleasure:

Plural Leadership: DG has an article on the way that Calvin led in Geneva, and how that required a team of people. 

Cultural Christianity: An oldie from Brett McCracken on how your Christian faith should inform (and have stress with) the culture you live in (clickbait title ignored).

Textual Provenance: Michael Kruger writes on the debate concerning Justin Martyr’s knowledge of the Gospel of John (and the results for dating the 4th Gospel).

Canadian Politics: CBC news goes with a clickbaity oversimplification of the functioning of a constitutional monarchy like ours to point out an (admittedly funny) problem our Governor General has had of late.

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Abortion, Apologetics, Discipleship, Politics

Online Reading (November 29, 2019)

History: Screwtape reflects on the life of C.S. Lewis on the occasion of the latter’s birth.

Discipleship: Paul Carter writes on the needs of good spiritual habits.

Politics and Religious Freedom: John Stackhouse reflects own a recent Cardus poll concerning the religious beliefs of Canadian Party leaders. A little disturbing for those of us who believe in freedom of religion.

Nostalgia: Xfinity releases a commercial with ET – Nostalgiarigfic:

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Ancient History, Apologetics, China, Culture, Ethics, Hong Kong, Politics, theology

Online Reading (November 26, 2019)

Divorce and Remariage: Tom Screiner opines on the Bible’s views on divorce and remarriage. (I’m not sure what I think).

Biblical Authenticity: An article on how predictive prophecy can demonstrate Biblical authority.

Cost Savings: A new baby clothes library has opened up in my city.

Hong Kong: The massive disconnect between the people of Hong Kong and their leaders results in some decisive electoral results.

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Abortion, Apologetics, Bible, Immigration, Money, Refugees

Online Reading (July 20, 2018)

Bible Translations: Get Religion talks about the problem Journalists have in knowing which translation of the Bible they should quote in stories.

Money: Be careful of taking a banks advice of how to deal with US borer and customs.

Abortion: A very good reader-level examination about what happens to abortion laws in the US if Roe v. Wade were overturned.

Refugees: While we like to say Canada’s awesome on how we deal with refugees, our wait times for their hearings keep getting longer.

Immigration: World Mag has a feature on a for-profit company trying to help new Americans to find work and develop skills.

Apologetics: Here’s a Christian response to a piece by noted skeptic and atheist Michael Shermer.

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