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…

Contrary to the imaginations of people who are fond of science-fiction, A.I. will never become self-aware. But how can I be so sure when making a definitive claim about technology, which never stops evolving? My reason is simple: There is no example of anything in science that has grown a conscience. But does that necessarily…

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…