Dear William I’m not sure what an official historian is. But I studied history for my first degree in Cambridge and achieved (I was told) the best result in my year. I was taught by such eminent historians as Geoffrey Elton and A. H. M. Jones. I then studied for a PhD in Cambridge. Again, this was in the History faculty. My dissertation was on “The Career and Thought of Dr William Fulk... »
UNDERSTANDING POST-CHRISTIAN CULTURE Gene Edward Veith’s book Post-Christian: A Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture (Crossway, 2020) is more of a State of the Union Address than a call to arm… »
*Atheist HAVE a Burden of Proof. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.* Don’t allow atheists in debates to say they do not have a BoP. It is epistemologically unsound and untenable for an atheist to claim they have a rational position, but unjustified. A Burden of Proof in epistemology is known as a Burden of Justification. Justification is what makes one’s beliefs or positions rati... »
I feel like this post is timely for people of faith curing the Corana Virus season we are in. Hopefully the last of course. As a Christian I would like to ask people of my faith to consider how we can be a light for the world, use healthy skepticism but avoid vitriol regarding the authorities. I think there is room for those tasks to coincide and I try to draw from scripture to illustrate that poi... »