a blog by chester delagneau

Two opposing themes stood out to me about Christopher Nolan’s cinematic portrayal of The Odyssey (and The Aeneid): trickery and hospitality. “Zeus’s Law” or the social contract of hospitality when broken was a severe offense against the gods. In the movie, we see both hosts and strangers violating this sacred Greek code—what’s supposed to be…

Proponents of M-theory, who think they escape the implication of a creator for our universe birthed by the “Big Bang,” are stuck between an empirical rock and an intelligently designed hard place. Consider the fact that M-theory—the “Theory of Everything” in physics that connects quantum mechanics with gravity—while being a credible mathematical framework is not…

During a Ligonear interview titled, “How Did We Get the Bible?”, Michael Kruger talks about his former seminary professor, Bart Ehrman, and his disillusionment with the traditional, historical view of the canon of scripture and the problem with textual criticism—the academic method used to reconstruct the wordings of the original manuscripts of the Bible. Ehrman…