A couple of decades ago historian Mark Noll began his book, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, by saying “The scandal … is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. . . American evangelicals are not exemplary in their thinking.” It’s a shame, really, since God gave us a brain to steward for …
Critical Thinking (Part 2)
Concluding Thoughts on Critical Thinking For Christians
“Habits are something you can do without thinking, which is why most of us have so many of them.” Frank A. Clark This series of posts turned out to be a little more lengthy than I intended. I tried to be as economical as possible, but there were some things that I just couldn’t omit. …
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Critical Thinking Christians Don’t Rush to Judgment
We’re drowning in rancor in the country these days. It’s not that we can’t agree; it’s that we disagree so disagreeably. Social media is still a pretty new phenomenon. That could be part of the problem. It used to be that only the paid pundits went at it in public. They were the only ones …
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Hyperbole is the Worst Thing Ever!
hy·per·bo·le (hīˈpərbəlē): exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, embellishment, excess, overkill, rhetoric… I hate hyperbole, first of all because it’s gotta have the worst spelling of any word in the English language! How am I supposed to pronounce such a word spelled with such counterintuitivity?! It seems that everyone is addicted to hyperbole these days, and I blame …
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