This new book (to be released tomorrow) by world-renown physicist Stephen Hawking is sure to make waves. It seems to expound a complete "theory of everything", answering queries such as: "Why is there a universe--why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why are the laws of nature what they are? Did the universe need a designer and creator?" Apparently, Hawking settles on a negative answer for the latter, taking the following (seemingly absurd) position: Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is … [Read more...] about Stephen Hawking on the Universe and God
God, the Gospel, and Glenn Beck
Russell Moore provides an excellent corrective to the disturbing trend of Christians undiscerningly jumping on the bandwagon of Beck's recent God-and-country "revival." An excerpt: Beck isn’t the problem. He’s an entrepreneur, he’s brilliant, and, hats off to him, he knows his market. Latter-day Saints have every right to speak, with full religious liberty, in the public square. I’m quite willing to work with Mormons on various issues, as citizens working for the common good. What concerns me here is not what this says about Beck or the “Tea Party” or any other entertainment or political … [Read more...] about God, the Gospel, and Glenn Beck
The Value of Brevity
Adriel Ifland, Executive Assistant to the President of Acts 29 (Scott Thomas), lists 6 common reasons for lack of brevity in communication (or correspondence), and one caveat. His point is well made. … [Read more...] about The Value of Brevity
Wallis Admits That Sojourners Has Received Soros Funding
Sarah Pulliam Bailey of Christianity Today has a good run-down on the Olasky-Wallis exchange over whether Sojourners has received funding from liberal billionaire George Soros' Open Society Institute. Here's a quick summary: 1. Last month, Marvin Olasky openly invited Jim Wallis to admit that his organization, Sojouners, had received financial support from the Open Society Institute (an organization that has financed groups promoting abortion, atheism, and same-sex marriage). Olasky attributed a more than tripling of Sojourners' revenues over the last decade to secular leftists learning "to … [Read more...] about Wallis Admits That Sojourners Has Received Soros Funding
Ideological Indoctrination On College Campuses
With the next academic year about to kick-off, Dr. Mohler has a timely word on a pair of disturbing articles which make plain the ideological indoctrination that happens on many secular college and university campuses, particularly, as Dr. Mohler notes, "in elite institutions and within the liberal arts faculties." Mohler writes: Even as most professors see themselves as stewards of the teaching profession and fellow learners with their students, others see their role in very different terms — as agents of ideological indoctrination. All teaching involves ideology and intellectual … [Read more...] about Ideological Indoctrination On College Campuses
What one thing would you change about seminary?
Collin Hansen of The Gospel Coalition poses this question to Albert Mohler, D.A. Carson, Jeff Louie, and Richard Pratt. … [Read more...] about What one thing would you change about seminary?