Design: Does Evolution Care about You?

“Once you’ve reproduced, evolution doesn’t care about you anymore.”1 The BBC podcast, In Our Time, is one I listen to weekly. The host, Melvin Bragg is a BBC radio presenter of long standing. The programme usually features three guests who are experts in the field under discussion, whether it be music, literature, history, science, or…

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ANDREAS KÖSTENBERGER Joins BJU Seminary Faculty

AWARD-WINNING NEW TESTAMENT SCHOLAR AND AUTHOR, ADVANCING 500x5x5 VISION TO EQUIP PASTORS THROUGH UNCOMPROMISED, NEXT-LEVEL TEACHING BJU Seminary today announced that award-winning New Testament scholar and author Dr. Andreas Köstenberger will join its faculty, the latest milestone in the Seminary’s 500 x 5 x 5 vision to equip pastors through uncompromised, next-level teaching in a time of historic challenge to…

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Canadian magazine features two men in ‘8 incredible women’ article – The Christian Institute

ELLE magazine has been criticised for including two biological males in an article titled “8 incredible Canadian women”. The article celebrated transgender musician, writer, actor and artist Vivek Shraya, as well as LGBT activist Fae Johnstone. Both are men who identify as women. The Canadian branch of the international magazine changed the article’s name on…

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Regularly Drinking Alcohol After 60 Linked to Early Death | Medscape.com

People over age 60 who drink alcohol regularly are at an increased risk of early death, particularly from cancer or issues related to the heart and blood vessels. That’s according to the findings of a new, large study that was published this week by JAMA Network Open and build upon numerous other recent studies concluding that any amount of…

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Train Up a Child

These four words can conjure up pain and disappointment for many believers. I’ve talked to many Christian parents who have now grown children who are not walking with the Lord. Often these parents are aged, their children have spent many years living in the world, yet the parents still hope in a childhood profession of…

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Can a fighting spirit help conquer cancer? The limits of positivity for cancer patients | National Post

The idea that cancer progression or disease survival can be influenced by a positive attitude or by keeping up a “fighting spirit” isn’t grounded in scientific evidence, he and other doctors said. Anecdotally, however, “you’ll hear from people, ‘I beat this because I was positive, I had the right thinking, the right attitude,’” Isenberg-Grzeda said.…

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The Theological Center of Our Current Political Battle

Recent blogs and podcasts mentioned the term “political philosophy.” The term intrigues me, so I’ve looked up a definition on the “fount of all wisdom” (the Internet). Wikipedia offers us this: Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions…

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The World Tells Us How It Really Feels

The recent display at the Paris Olympics stirred up a lot of controversy. Conservative sites are outraged (see here and here), liberal sites are bemused and the event’s creator is defensive. At least some on the Paris organizing committee are feeling the heat, since they offered a “non-apology apology.” The event reminded me of 1…

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Accepting God’s Providence

We all live in historic times. Often, the significance of daily events flows over us. That is, we easily dismiss the seemingly usual course of affairs as “ordinary times,” yet later historians will mark many of our events as significant elements of the changes we are living through, creating a new era which will affect…

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Summit Report (FBFI 2024)

I have returned home after a crazy week of travel, conference activities, and more travel at the end. Living on an island always adds an extra wrinkle to my travel plans, but never extra convenience. Nonetheless, the 103rd meeting of the Foundations Baptist Fellowship International, held at Tri-City Baptist Church in Westminster, Colorado was well…

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