Recovering the ‘News’ aspect of the Good News

Over the last 150 years western culture has moved from a slow-media environment through the rise of the ‘objective’ news paradigm to news as entertainment. These transitions have affected all of culture in obvious and subtle ways. The nature of what is considered news has changed as has the value of information and action. In … Read more

Exposition through an Apologetics Lens: A Case for Integration

This paper explores two disciplines largely considered and practiced separately: apologetics and expositional preaching. The challenges from expressive individualism, New Atheism, pragmatism within the church, apathy in the West towards the supernatural, and the 21st-century renaissance in Christian Apologetics present an opportunity to reclaim the ancient practice of exposition through an apologetics lens. I will … Read more

Shattering Foundations: How Denying Classical Theism Undermines Presuppositional Apologetics

According to presuppositional apologetics, only the Christian worldview provides the necessary preconditions for knowledge, logic, and morality. This paper argues that the rejection of classical theism within certain contemporary presuppositional circles undermines the very epistemological claims it seeks to defend. If God is composed of parts or mutable in any sense, He would be contingent … Read more

Fethullah Gülen, Said Nursi, and John Calvin’s Understanding of Tyranny

This presentation compares the teaching of the nature and causes of tyranny by two Muslim leaders, Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960) and Muhammed Fethullah Gülen (1941-2024), with John Calvin’s (1509-1564) theology of God’s secret providence. Nursi’s commentary on the Qur’an, the Risale-i Nur, along with two published volumes of Gülen’s sermons, Yolun Kaderi (The Path’s Destiny), … Read more

Responding to the vibe shift: a fourfold typology of emerging post-secular worldviews

The last few years have witnessed a ‘vibe shift’ in Western culture against radical secularity and in favor of religion, spirituality, and morality. Significant former atheists like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, her husband and award-winning historian Niall Ferguson, and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, have publicly converted to Christianity. This paper proposes a typology of four emerging … Read more

The Fallacy of Righteous Anger: Why You Cannot Be Angry and Not Sin

In a time characterized by inflammatory rhetoric on social media and immediate responses to every developing news story, Christians may feel it is their obligation to be angry at injustice or injury against the innocent. Christians will often use the phrase “righteous anger” as an excuse for these outbursts, as though anger produced from godly … Read more

Antithesis as Cornerstone: Schaeffer’s Framework for Christian Public Theology

In Francis Schaeffer’s theological architecture, the principle of antithesis functions not merely as a rhetorical device but as the epistemological foundation of his public theology. For Schaeffer, the very structure of truth necessitates antithesis—the clear delineation between truth and non-truth—with significant implications for Christianity’s engagement in public discourse. Schaeffer contends that diminishing the antithetical nature … Read more

Defining “The Pride of Life” for a New Generation.

1 John 2:16 reminds us, “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. (1 John 2:16, NASB). This is an important part of discipleship, but what hermeneutic do we … Read more