abortion, bioethics, death, ethics, philosophy, politics, science
At a political forum in 2008, then-Presidential candidate Barack Obama famously sidestepped the important question of when life begins. He wittily quipped that such a question was above his pay grade. Still, not surprisingly, during his administration he has...
ethics, lists, time management
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, American Time Use Survey (2012), the average working person between the ages of 25-54 spends 2.5 hours per workday in leisure and sports (is Facebook a sport?). That’s 12.5 hours per week, about 50 hours per month, and...
ecclesiology, epistemology, ethics, philosophy, theology
The insistence that all things are essential (for the purpose of God’s glory) should not be mistaken for an insistence that the believer is responsible for the agreement or disagreement of others. When Paul mandates in 1 Corinthians 1:10 that believers should agree...
ethics, Jesus, teachings of, pacifism, politics
An Excerpt from The Bible in Government and Society (by Christopher Cone, TSP, 2012), republished with permission. ___ On March 6, 1927 Bertrand Russell presented a lecture to the South London Branch of the National Secular Society. Throughout the talk, which he...
bibliology, ethics, exegesis/exposition, hermeneutics, textual criticism, theology
Republished with permission from the Journal of Dispensational Theology, Vol. 16 No. 48, August, 2012. John Locke deftly identifies the central problem of biblical authority: he explains that if all of holy writ is to be equally considered as inspired of God, then...
environment, ethics, philosophy
Presented to the Dallas Philosophers Forum, January 24, 2012, Dallas, Texas Noted environmental philosopher J. Baird Callicott has recognized that “to affect change in both individual behavior and social, political, and economic institutions we have to do more...
