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What is the Gospel?

November 10, 2015 Adam Setser

We Americans have come to think the Gospel is all about us and our personal relationships with God, but it isn't. It's something much more--more big, more powerful, and so much more glorious. 

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In Life & Faith Tags gospel, Story, Truth, Metanarrative

I Just Don't Feel Like That's Right, You Know?

November 3, 2015 Adam Setser

We often mistake passivity for humility and passion for arrogance, and since our culture idolizes relativism, our only option is to back down. Or is it?

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In Life & Faith Tags *Benjamin Franklin, *Albert Camus, dogma, Truth, Relativism, Passion, Humility

What It Means to Be Educated

September 23, 2015 Adam Setser

So-called safe-speech, microagressions, and trigger-warnings are ruining education, and if we lose education, we lose the battle for our humanity. God wants you to be educated, and this is what I think that means.

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In Life & Faith Tags education, absolutes, Wisdom, University, Truth, Reading

Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey

September 13, 2015 Adam Setser

Pearcey takes my favorite book (How Should We Then Live?) and builds on it, taking Francis Schaeffer's discoveries and applying them to postmodernism and the more unique task of rescuing the American church from its mindlessness and cultural antipathy.

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In Book Reviews Tags *Nancy Pearcey, *Francis Schaeffer, Truth, epistemology, Worldview

Mental Models (An Introduction), the Matrix, and Worldly Wisdom

April 14, 2015 Adam Setser

These mental models, then, are the tiny stories and patterns we have in our minds which tell us how to live. They are snippets of practical knowledge... Our mental models define who we are, how we live, and the choices we make.

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In Life & Faith Tags Worldview, Wisdom, Truth, Reality, Mental Models
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