When you hear “idol”, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Probably a golden statue of a pagan god, or large temples, ancient and forgotten. Yet these all seem thousands of years and leaps of progress away. People don’t really worship idols any more, right? Wrong, according to Elizabeth Scalia‘s new book, Strange Gods: …
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Several months ago, while listening to an open call-in show about atheism, I found myself blown away. Atheists called in with seemingly powerful objections to God, referencing scientific and philosophical theories, yet the guest brilliantly dismantled each argument, one by one. He wasn’t pompous or aggressive. He responded with charity and he quoted from many …
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It’s not often you encounter a real-life Samson, but that’s exactly how I felt when I met Jared Zimmerer. At 6’5″, 260-pounds, Jared evokes the Bible’s great strong-man (though without the ravishing hair or pride). What’s apparent upon meeting him, though, is that Jared’s strength extends beyond the physical. He’s one of the deepest, holiest …
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I first discovered Colleen Carroll Campbell through her excellent 2002 book, The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy (Loyola Press). The groundbreaking book examined the growing trend toward religious orthodoxy among today’s young people, Catholic and Protestant. I found it well-researched, lucid, and full of important insights. Yet her latest book, dare …
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Christopher Hagen grew up in the home of a bible studying, church attending, Evangelical family in Nashville and later a Chicago suburb. He attended Carleton College in Minnesota because “the winters are harder there” and graduated in 1998 with a liberal arts degree in Religion and a beautiful Minnesota bride. A year after college, …
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