This is the third in a 5 week series exploring the relationship between miracles and science. See this Science Corner post for a prelude, this post for part 1 and this post for part 2. Two weeks ago, we started our exploration of miracles by looking at how human monarchs influence our perception of God as king. Last week, we considered the possibility that the metaphor of laws may not be the best fit for describing how the universe works. I proposed the idea of will as the basis for an alternative description. … [Read more...] about Miracles: Chaos in Control
Archives for March 2015
Living out a Family-Career Balance (Scholar’s Compass)
Faithful Is Successful Series: Daniel Roeber reflects on family and career in response to Matthew Cabeen. Our careers and our families are both goods God has given to us that enrich our lives and can bring Him glory. Both are secondary to our relationship with God through Jesus Christ, without whose abundant and undeserved grace we can literally do nothing (not even exist). Neither career nor family is sufficient to fulfill the full range of our human needs. Without work, we cannot provide the basic needs that make … [Read more...] about Living out a Family-Career Balance (Scholar’s Compass)
Five Things I’ve Learned from Writing a Dissertation, Part 3
Jonathan Warren shares the last in a three part series. Explore Part 1 here and Part 2 here. As I wrap up this series, two more things I learned from my dissertation come to mind: 4) You need to strike the proper balance between research and writing. One of my besetting issues during the entirety of my Ph.D. program was the sense that I always needed to know more about the topic than I did before I could write about it. My tendency was to consume more and more information, compile more and more detailed … [Read more...] about Five Things I’ve Learned from Writing a Dissertation, Part 3
Ruth: Stopped Along the Way (Scholar’s Compass)
Jamie Noyd begins a series exploring what the life of Ruth has to say to Christian academics. So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. But Naomi said to her two daughters-in- law, “Go, return each of you to her mother's house. May the Lord deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.” - Ruth 1:7-8, ESV Reflection On our way. Once we've made a difficult decision to begin a graduate program or take on a … [Read more...] about Ruth: Stopped Along the Way (Scholar’s Compass)
Book Review: Apologetics Beyond Reason
Apologetics Beyond Reason: Why Seeing Really Is Believing By James W. Sire My rating: 4 of 5 stars There is everything. Therefore there is a God. Either you see this or you don't. This epigraph at the beginning of James W. Sire's latest book captures the “apologetic” for the Christian faith that Sire proposes. In the course of the book, he rings the changes on this syllogism, substituting for “everything” the terms “literature” and “the music of Johann Sebastian Bach” among others. What he addresses … [Read more...] about Book Review: Apologetics Beyond Reason