Since the early 2010s teen mental health has seriously declined as rates of anxiety, self-harm, depression, and suicide have sharply risen. Jonathan Haidt has labeled this western global epidemic of GenZ mental illness “The Anxious Generation” and the “great rewiring of childhood” (The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic … Read more
Racism and its various mutations have impacted every aspect of American life and remains a great challenge to the American Church. Worldviews seek to answer life’s biggest questions, that of reality, origin, meaning, morality, and destiny, by forming humans to live, think, and ‘be’ a certain way in the world. Protestant Evangelicals advocate for a … Read more
Francis Schaeffer is best remembered as a Christian apologist, cultural critic, and founder of the L’Abri Fellowship. Yet, much of the academic and pastoral engagement with his work has overlooked a vital dimension: Schaeffer as an ethicist. This paper proposes to revisit and explore Schaeffer’s thought through the lens of Christian ethics. Specifically, it will … Read more
This paper will draw on the author’s doctoral dissertation, “Embodied Cohesion: A Framework for Fostering Race-Ethnic Unity in Local Churches.” It will argue that local churches have a missiological responsibility to understand and to engage the embodied racial and ethnic narratives of the community in which they are embedded. The paper will first draw from … Read more
This paper explores the relationship between emotionally rooted hesitations and belief in Christian theism. I will address how toying with sin, the moral failure of an authority figure, an absent or abusive father figure, divorce and family dysfunction, harboring bitterness, and unfiltered worry can trigger a potential breeding ground for religious doubt. Grasping how these … Read more
Longing plays a large role in C. S. Lewis’s conversion and writings—be it his poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. This paper examines the role and appeal of longing in the work of Lewis, specifically the longing for Joy, Beauty, and Meaning, by drawing from the longings expressed by a young atheist-Lewis in his first published poetry … Read more
The present research aims to analyze the relationship between the Christological principles of Luke 4:18-19 and their ecclesiological and social implications in the Latin American context. This passage, in which Jesus identifies himself by proclaiming his mission to bring the good news to the poor and set the oppressed free, has been key to theological … Read more
In “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self”, Carl Trueman argues that a single modern self—emotive, expressive, and therapeutic—dominates understandings of personal identity the modern West. This paper builds on Trueman’s framework but proposes a critical refinement: modernity produces not one but two dominant and rival visions of the self. Alongside the therapeutic self … Read more
In an era characterized by rapid technological advancements, artificial intelligence (AI), specifically publicly accessible Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI chatbots employing Large Language Models (LLMs), raises important questions for theological scholarship. Central among these is the research question addressed by my Ph.D. dissertation: Can AI genuinely “know” God, and is theological knowledge generated by AI … Read more
In recent years, Anime has experienced a surge in popularity in Western culture. Accordingly, the theology of anime, reflecting a fusion of eastern and western beliefs, has become increasingly influential. The diverse array of storylines reflect deep thought and lively speculation on an equally diverse array of theological themes. The proposed paper will examine one … Read more