Dr. Steve Cowan, who has taught me more than perhaps any other human on the planet, and who graciously wrote the foreword to Contend, has contributed a short article on the meaning of life from the Christian worldview perspective to the Patheos website.
You should check it out, it is very encouraging.
Whenever people ask where I went to seminary, I usually go into an explanation of BTS as an institution, and why, by God’s grace, I chose to go there. It is not your mother’s seminary. It began with a different vision than most educational institutions for pastors and other ministry-related leaders.
By Faith magazine has written an outstanding article that highlights some of the really cool things that happens at BTS. I encourage you to check it out:
I pulled up Google this morning, and sure enough, with their opening page artwork, they are promoting “Ida” the supposed ancestor of humans. “Ida” is a recently-found lemur like fossil, that naturalist scientists are becoming drunk over. Media outlets are eating the story up! Of course, hype sells advertisments, and this generates money. Truth is not the goal.
Click here for a much more level-headed analysis of “Ida”-syndrome.
One of my favorite blogs is Dr. Craig Carter’s Politics of the Cross Resurrected. His current post interacts with a recent book that deals with F. Nietzsche’s view of truth. Although the post is bit weighty, it is worth the read: