James Carville famously stated that the election between George Bush and Bill Clinton came down to a pretty simple concept: It’s the economy, stupid. Bush’s failure to focus on the financial woes of the country cost him the election. Sadly, we Christians often fall into the same campaign trap. We waste so much time putting together our religious platform that we forget that our Candidate…..
I’m afraid that our current Christian apologetic is missing the mark. We are faced with an increasingly postmodern culture that values autonomy over authority and feelings over facts, yet we persist in lecturing with logic. I believe that disappointment in the ability of our young people to engage in rational argument is justified and should motivate us to return to teaching logic and philosophy in our schools, but in the meantime, we can’t…..