Posts Tagged by Suffering
The Walk to Walden Hill: A Review
| December 2, 2011 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, book reviews, Christianity and Culture, family, literary apologetics, Love, manhood, morality, original sin, spirituality |
The Walk to Walden Hill begins with tragedy: the orphaning of the protagonist, Josh Billows. His mother dead, his father jailed, Josh ends up in foster care. As just a young child he is forced to grapple with issues that are known to shipwreck adults, even if he doesn’t understand the real issues that are in play.
Reflections on the ‘Dragon Mom’
| October 20, 2011 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, Blog, Christianity and Culture, pro-life |
Posted this at the WI-LFL blog: Someone pointed me to an op-ed in the NY Times by a ‘dragon mom.’ Her son, born with Tay-Sachs, is not expected to live beyond three years old. And yet, despite this- or is it because of this?- the joy she has with him is immense and incalculable. Our…
History of the Culture of Death
| December 12, 2010 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, apologetics, atheism, Blog, eugenics, evolution, General, Global Warming, human rights, Malthusians, morality, original sin, philosophy, pro-life, scientism, Secular Humanism |
Pro-life speaker Anthony Horvath recounts the history of the ‘Culture of Death’ from Thomas Malthus to Charles Darwin to Margaret Sanger to Peter Singer, with an array of personalities in between. Horvath shows why population control proposals permeate the ‘Progressive’ movement for the last 200 years and why, and how, it must be countered today. This presentation was delivered Nov. 20th, 2010, at Concordia University in Seward Nebraska for a Nebraska Lutherans for Life organization.
2009 Apologetics Academy Session Begins in May
| April 6, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under academy, apologetics, theology |
May 1. Basic New Testament Greek Part 1
May 10. Reliability of the New Testament Documents
May 11. Hitler and Christianity [FREE!]
May 13. Christ Promised in the Old Testament
May 18. Study in Alleged Bible Contradictions
May 18. The Problem of Pain and Suffering
May 25. Basic New Testament Greek Part 2
June 1. The Historical Jesus: A Survey
The Problem of Pain Defeated by the Problem of Good
| October 6, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
A recent commentator on my youtube vid of me responding to a question about the problem of pain declares “The analogy fails.” What I had said was that the problem of pain reflected a heart wrenching reaction to what we see in the world but we already have in hand the principle to unravel it:…
You Cannot Reason a Person Out of Pain: Lessons from a Child
| September 22, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
I think there are a lot of people on the Internet on both sides of this anecdote. Some people are trying to talk people out of their pain. Some people are in pain talking as though they are not. Of course, I here refer mainly to psychological pain rather than physical pain, but I think the principle still holds. Words won’t take away psychological pain just as they don’t stop physical pain.
Why did God Create the Devil Knowing He’d Be Naughty and other Free Will
| September 16, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
Here is a second clip from a Q and A that I gave this summer. There are at least three questions here and they all surround the notion of free will, why God would tolerate bad things, why he doesn’t act, and the like. Enjoy.
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