The landscape of Christian apologetics is vast, spanning from the practice of defending the faith via starting with the belief that Christianity is true (presuppositional) to focusing on creatively expressing the imagination that’s grounded in the character of God (imaginative).[1] There are three modes of persuasion accounted for when discussing the different representations of apologetics:…

“Ultimately, it’s not whether ‘God is dead.’ But whether a good God is dead.”

I was inspired by Steinbeck’s East of Eden to write this flash fiction. Caleb waits in the shadows. Murder is on his heart. Aaron won’t go as far as premeditated murder but he has no problem beating up an old man and taking back the money he lost in tonight’s poker game. The old man,…

Here are two political, polar-opposite examples of bulverism, which shows that anyone can fall prey to bad logic:

E1: You’re a right-wing conservative only because you come from a privileged white, Christian home.

E2: You’re a liberal extremist only because your parents are poor, illegal immigrants.

Frank Schaeffer interview on the Sean McDowell Show Admittedly, as a rational apologist I had trouble listening to Mr. Schaeffer’s (propositional) statements and beliefs. But when I forced myself to re-engage and put on my aesthetic apologetics lens, I was able to see some existential overtones, which evoked imagination so I was better able to…

When I was younger, I lived life to the extreme and for the extremes. I had no overarching purpose, so I assumed one from the abundant possibilities of my anxious lifestyle. I quickly moved from one place to another, one girl to another, one job to another. I was on the fast track to the…

I found the new Superman movie entertaining, replete with interesting characters like Krypto (the Super Dog), the Justice Gang (a motley crew of several superheroes), and a giant Kaiju-like monster, as well as cosmological concepts like pocket universes, an imaginative raging antiproton river, and other fictional eye-candy like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. But what I…

But the dark side of therapy I’m referring to goes beyond sexual impropriety to include the more elusive ethos of breaking the boundary of personal values.

Aha moments can be disastrous. If we spend our lives going from one aha moment to the next, we’ll miss out on the simple yet splendid day-to-day routine of life. Admittedly, day-to-day routines can sometimes feel apathetic and unfulfilling. But they’re how we make progress to get to the next level of our maturity. Aha…

IMAGINATIVE apologetics promotes and pursues what classical apologetics lacks: meaning through metaphor. This lack is not the focus of the book but rather the catalyst, which is to complement the rational and evidential with the imaginative.