DOUGLAS GROOTHUIS, PH.D.

Common phrases and sentences often assume false ideas. A wise person will interrogate herself and language in general to sniff these out....

Having recently heard yet another live release of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (this one authorized), I offer a few reflections on the man...

Guest post by: Ben R. Crenshaw In my last post I argued that the minimum wage is immoral since it violates social contract law by forcing...

Guest post by: Chad Ellison The phenomenon of suffering is at once alien and common. It is not difficult for most of us to hear and...

Pauses are imperiled today. An unintended pause on the radio is dead air. Pause in a conversation—to find the right word, right example,...

Guest post by: Ben R. Crenshaw The minimum wage has been in the news recently, as there are a number of movements to raise the minimum...

Always looking for more applications of philosophy to life, I have come up with a sure-fire winner: the PhilosophyPersonalTrainer (or...

A Recently Recovered Screwtape Letter 0n Words My Dear Wormwood: I lick my parched lips with delight that our propaganda efforts are...

Smith Family Book Store is the tag on hundreds of my books. It would take too long to count them. Places shape souls. This place, a used...

Guest Post by Chad E. Graham When the high court rules, the people listen. Yet, the people do more than simply listen when the Supreme...

Meaning demands wisdom and wisdom demands truth. Life is short and we need discernment to separate the wheat from the chaff, the...

The Bible is not a romantic or utopian book. Sweet talk is absent (except The Song of Songs). Because of the fall and the perennial and...

Guest Post by Chad E. Graham Reading the news this morning, I discovered that Donald Trump, a Hollywood celebrity and business magnate,...

Logic warns the wary of many fallacies. Everyone should master this canon of error—or you will be mastered by it. A logical fallacy is a...

A recently-released video claims that the body parts of very young and recently murdered humans are auctioned off to the highest bidder...

One objection to Christian involvement in law and politics is that it is somehow wrong to “legislate morality.” Given the heat generated...

Ideas have consequences, but few understand how the consequences are rooted in, and flow from, those ideas. Inextricably related issues...

My challenge to self-identified Christians who support same-sex marriage: 1. Establish what your basis of moral authority is. 2. If it...

Tony Campolo now supports “the full inclusion” of homosexuals and lesbians in the church. This article Campolo has never been a...

“The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.” exhorts the prophet Hosea (2:20). Our world is famished for...