by John Tyler, JD, PhD Two troubling trends have radically transformed American jurisprudence since the 1950s. The first is the separation of law from morality, which produces unjust laws. The second is judicial activism, which destroys liberty. This …
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The Necessity of Moral Laws
by John Tyler, JD, PhD Two troubling trends have radically transformed American jurisprudence since the 1950s. The first is the intentional separation of law from morality. The second is the increased acceptance of judicial activism. This is the …
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America Goes to War
By Timothy S. Goeglein A little over one hundred years ago, on April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I. The Great War鈥檚 centennial is especially poignant because of the massive sacrifice America made in both …
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Why Philosophy is Essential to Anything Deserving to be Called a University, Especially One Claiming to be Christian.
Recently something of a national controversy broke out in academic and educational circles over the news that the President of the University of St Thomas, Houston, was thinking of cutting or even eliminating programs in philosophy at that …
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Teaching Literature at a Christian University
For the past twenty-six years I have taught literature at a Christian University that confesses Jesus as Lord, that ascribes to a conservative, orthodox Christian worldview, and that believes that faith and reason must not be held in …
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Technology, Knowledge, and Mystery
By Russell Hemati Technological marvels are everywhere around us. Their ubiquity lulls us into forgetting the mysterious essence of technology and its impact on the way we experience nature, society, and the supernatural. The Obvious Mystery Technology is …
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Three-Part Harmony: The Remarkable Relationship between Mind, Matter, and Mathematics
by Melissa Cain Travis The conviction that the cosmos is orderly and that this order is discernible through human reason was a major philosophical engine of the scientific revolution. Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton harnessed the …
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What Can the Social Sciences Contribute?
D.R. Wilson 鈥淲e are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.鈥澛犫�暵燢arl …
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What has the Great Society Wrought Fifty Years Later? Marriage, Family and Poverty
By Timothy S. Goeglein Fifty years ago in 1966, there was a major revolution underway in American government that would have a massive impact on millions of families and marriages. It can all be traced back to …
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Science Does Not Understand Our Consciousness of God, but Not for the Reasons We Might Think
by Denyse O鈥橪eary We really do not know much about people who lived before the age of writing, but sometimes they surprise us. Consider Gobekli Tepe in Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, discovered in 1994. Dated at 11,500 years ago, …