The Benedict Option: A Necessary Preface

The Benedict Option: A Necessary Preface

In the course of reading reviews and listening to comments over the past couple of months regarding Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option, it has occurred to me that some kind of Preface needs to precede any kind of thoughtful and focused discussion of the book. In...
2017 Recommended Books & Movies

2017 Recommended Books & Movies

The Areopagus Update – Jan/Feb 2018 — APOLOGETICS — Gregory Koukl, The Story of Reality: How the World Began, How It Ends, and Everything Important That Happened in Between (Zondervan) — CULTURAL APOLOGETICS — Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians...
Ten Myths – and Ten Truths – About Atheism

Ten Myths – and Ten Truths – About Atheism

The following is a collection of informal responses to an op-ed piece published by the atheist advocate Sam Harris in the LA Times on December 24, 2006 tat was sent to me by a longtime friend with whom I had been out of touch for many years. When we reconnected, we...
The Salvation Process

The Salvation Process

Spiritual salvation is a two-phase process that begins with the spiritual phenomenon of conversion and continues through a life-long process of transformation (or “spiritual formation”) related to Christian discipleship. Conversion is both the starting point and the...
Deconstructing “The DaVinci Code”

Deconstructing “The DaVinci Code”

The Da Vinci Code is the kind of book that serious scholars tend to dismiss as unworthy of comment. If only it were true. Based on dubious scholarship and replete with factual errors, questionable assertions and crackpot conspiracy theories, the book is impressive for...