Every worldview has a starting  place.  Indeed, every worldview has its own creation story.  Whether you are considering Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or even scientific rationalism, there is a creation story.  Your creation story will largely determine the direction of your worldview.
The scientific rationalism creation story is that everything that is came from nothing through [...]

Have you ever had a conversation where you were convinced that the other person just wasn’t getting what you were saying? Sometimes that’s just because they don’t understand the topic. But other times the problem is far deeper. Sometimes it’s a difference in worldview that amounts to a chasm.
A classic example is [...]

In my last post I talked about the US goal of establishing democracy in Iraq and whether that was a reasonable or achievable goal.  A reader, Brad, brought up a side issue that bears discussion.  What his point boiled down to is this.  If all civil government is established by God (Romans 13) then is [...]

I mentioned in another post that, while this is not intended to be a political blog, there are political implications to a Christian worldview. One implication came home to me this week. I’ve been reading Francis Schaeffer’s book, A Christian Manifesto. In it Schaeffer pointed out something I’ve believed for many years but had not [...]

For the last year I’ve been writing a political blog and trying to write it from a religious perspective. While my political view stem directly from my Christian beliefs, the focus of the blog was almost purely political. I struggle to find a way to incorporate my belief system in a way that was directly [...]