By Douglas Groothuis, PhD I have been reading and listening to Sue Prideaux’s superbly written and fascinating biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, I am Dynamite (Tim Duggan Books, 2018). It has the drama of a novel and the analysis of a philosopher, although she fails to criticize Nietzsche’s worldview or attack on Christianity. Instead of offering a thorough review of this book, I return to the question of Nietzsche’s insanity from 1899 to his death in 1900. Her account of his life and thought...

By Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D., Cornerstone University and Cornerstone Theological Seminary How should a Christian understand gambling? Gambling is an activity in which someone puts up money, goods, or services on the chance of being rewarded by unknown outcomes by the gambler. I do not mean the investment of money, goods, services. By “chance,” I mean unknown outcomes not determined by the gambler, not chance in the metaphysical sense of being beyond the control or knowledge of God...

By Douglas Groothuis, PhD Author and environmental activist, Paul Klingsnorth, predicts in his best-selling book, Against the Machine, “that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and those who wish to live as machines.”[i] Which side are you on? Long before this, Francis Schaeffer (1912-84), warned that a secular-materialistic worldview reduces God’s image-bearers to a machine status, shorn of human personality, authenticity, and...