Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone …
Not In Our Town
Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone …
Frivolous Questions
Dear visionaries, Nick has presented me with a whole host of “articles for repudiation.” But before answering Nick’s questions, allow me to invite you all (again) to the town hall meeting we are having at the Kenworthy. We would love to see you there. We will genuinely attempt to answer all the serious questions seriously. …
Uppity Calvinist Women
Visionaries, In his great book Orthodoxy, Chesterton once said, “This began to be alarming. It looked not so much as if Christianity was bad enough to include any vices, but rather as if any stick was good enough to beat Christianity with.” The aptness of this observation is seen in the following missive from Angie: …
Pro Fanum
Visionaries, In his recent post, Darryl targets my assumption of the infallibility of the God’s Word, and offers his alternative. But this simply highlights yet another example of an “inescapable concept.” The best way to summarize this concept is with the phrase, “not whether, but which.” It is not whether we will have a god …
Avoiding Checkmate
Visionaries, Darryl wrote to ask about my responsibility in helping to give Moscow a black eye in the PR department. What was my intent in all of this? First, Darryl is exactly right in anticipating how I would respond. We did not print and distribute the anonymous flyers, we did not ask for a front …
A Chilling Effect
Visionaries, Angie says, “It sure is chilly out there.” Actually, it really is chilly. There are people “out there” who use “racism” as the all-purpose category to describe anything they don’t like or disagree with. Then they have trouble making distinctions between worldviews that are utterly and entirely different. In this view, there are two …
Always Thinking You’re Right
Visionaries, Dan’s post brought several important issues to mind. First, he answers a couple of his own rhetorical questions with the very dogmatic, “Absolutely not.” Then, without any sense of irony, he goes on to say, “Doug Wilson is open to criticism — and almost demands it — when he says he is right and …
Altar Call
Visionaries, Sandra praised my altar call, but demurred because she is not a Christian. But of course, the whole point of presenting the gospel is to present it to non-Christians. Let me just say that it is a standing offer — and it really is an offer to come to Jesus, and not to me, …
The Impossibility of the Contrary
Visionaries, I appreciate Andy’s use of our sources because I honestly think he is trying to understand what we are saying before critiquing it. And I would just like to add one additional note to his summary of our presuppositional approach, which was generally quite fair. All finite creatures must have an axiomatic starting point …