Category: Birth Pangs
My Million Words and the Road to Good Writing
| March 24, 2011 | Posted by Anthony under Birth Pangs, Blog, Christian Short Stories, literary apologetics |
It is one of those subjective truisms that a person becomes a good writer sometime after writing their millionth word. I don’t know if the truism is true or not. I should like to think that my writing was good many hundred thousand words ago. 🙂 I won’t deny, however, that the writing in my […]
My books and stories all in one place
| March 23, 2011 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, Birth Pangs, Blog, Christian Short Stories, literary apologetics, pro-life |
Here’s a bit of a no-brainer that was years in the making… all of the published books and short stories I’ve written, listed in one place: Here. To date, these include my Birth Pangs series, my pro-life book, and two collections of short stories. Some are available only in digital format while others are in […]
The feminization of love and romance: can manly men live up to girlie love?
| March 11, 2010 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, Birth Pangs, Christianity and Culture, Jesus, Love, theology |
I fear that this post is going to be construed as sexist. Let me assure the reader that I love women. Some of my best friends are women. In fact, I’m even married to one (and she is not a pillow). People have noted that the female characters in my Birth Pangs series are really strong, independent ladies. But I think I’m still going to be called a sexist.
I had the misfortune to see the movie Twilight this weekend with my wife. I had heard that it was a chick flick. That’s not the misfortunate part. The misfortune consisted in it being, in my estimation, a poorly made movie. Maybe the book is better. It wasn’t a surprise exactly but after the movie was over I asked my wife what she thought and she liked the movie. I asked why and she said something to the effect of the guy showing complete and utter devotion to the girl in the show.
Announcing: Online Literary Apologetics Conference
| March 5, 2010 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, Birth Pangs, Blog, Christianity and Culture, General, literary apologetics |
I am proud to announce that Athanatos Christian Ministries will be hosting its first annual online apologetics conference this May.
http://onlineapologeticsconference.com/
The theme for the conference is ‘literary apologetics.’ Potentially, future conferences will tackle some other brand of communicating or defending the Gospel through the arts. ‘Literary apologetics’ is, obviously, using the written word to carry out that endeavor. Notable examples are C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Dorothy Sayers, to name a few.
The purpose of the conference is to issue a call to Christians in the arts to express their faith through them and issue a call to the Christian Church to help them in a more deliberate fashion.
The conference is taking registrations now. The cost is $35 for the two day event, but discounts are available for students and there is an early bird special in place before March 15th.
Speakers:
Unpublished Answers to Interview with An Apologist
| February 26, 2010 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, Birth Pangs, Blog, Christianity and Culture, literary apologetics |
Not too long ago, FallenandFlawed blog interviewed me about my apologetics ministry and some of my activities. As tends to happen with me, I got a little long and only a portion of the interview could be posted. With permission, here are the remaining questions and answers:
Q. In 2009 ACM launched a Christian Writing Contest, which was an outgrowth of ACM’s desire to develop a genre of fiction called “literary apologetics.” Forgive me, but immediately books like C. S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce and The Chronicles of Narnia come to mind. Is that what you’re looking for? What kind of material did you receive?
Michigan Pro-Life and Apologetics Speaking Tour in October
| October 12, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, apologetics, Birth Pangs, Blog, General, pro-life |
I will be traveling throughout Michigan from about Oct. 15th to Oct 22nd speaking in various venues, primarily in regards to pro-life issues. See: www.wechoselife.com.
Many of these presentations are at high schools and other places that are not open to the public. However, three of the ones that are open to the public are also apologetic related, especially the St. Matthew event where I argue the reliability of the Bible and the St. Peter’s event where I discuss challenges to the Christian faith (topic title: “Five things killing Christianity.”
Below is a schedule of the ‘open to the public’ events.
A theological basis for rank individualism in society and elsewhere
| September 5, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, apologetics, atheism, Birth Pangs, Blog, Christianity and Culture, eugenics, General, human rights, morality, original sin, philosophy, politics, pro-life, scientism, Secular Humanism, theology |
In short, dear Christian, I contend that we already have in front of us all the ‘higher level organisms’ we need: the community of the family and the community of the faithful. Here and only here are individuals respected, welcomed, and free. Here only are individuals understood to be forever, and here only do we see the context in which they will be forever- in community through Christ.
It is therefore with great caution that we must approach the efforts of the Statists. True, very often they propose programs that we can in good conscience get behind. However, even then they do not share our views about the individual, and so, they can, quite unexpectedly, change things. They would only be acting on their own values, and so we should not be shocked. Thus it should be evident that the more power we give them to help us the more power we give to them to hurt us.
As such, it is worth positing that we should give them no power at all, and the power that we do give them come with very robust checks and balances. Our trust in their sincere intentions seems, increasingly, to be poised to do us all great harm- or at least, the weakest among us, and those who are the heaviest burden on society. In the name of the “Most good for the most people” great evil is being inflicted, and history tells us a great deal more is possible.
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