My book on the topic of imaginative apologetics, hence the title–IMAGINATIVE Apologetics–is finally here. The book has over 50 poems, 170 prose (aphorisms to articles), and 20 short stories. Topics include but are not limited to Beauty, Faith, Love, Philosophy, Redemption, Suffering, Wisdom, Discipleship, Ethics, Psychology, Science and Faith, Theology, Worldviews… Here are a few…

EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE HAPPY. From moms to mailmen. From artists to athletes. From monks to models. From preachers to politicians. Philosopher Blaise Pascal is unequivocally correct when he says, “All men seek happiness. This is without exception.”[1] But experience tells us that not everyone is happy, that happiness eludes us. Why is that? In…

In the field of epistemology, the Gettier problem shows that one can have justified true belief (JTB) about a claim yet not possess knowledge. For example, imagine someone is looking in a field at something that looks like a sheep but it’s actually a dog in sheep’s clothing. The person believes there’s a sheep in…

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:…

Kirk was a realist when it came to ethics. As a moral realist, he believed that objective moral truths exist independently of our beliefs about them, rejecting moral relativism. And it was this hard stance about right and wrong behavior, grounded in the character of God, that his intellectual opponents hated about him.

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…

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.

“I am your deity. You’ll never be free of me. Truth is what I say it is. I demand you say it is. Where’s your empathy? My feelings trump your rationality.”   But I want you to know, I want to unzip you and climb inside you. I’ll do almost anything to know you, short…