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Writer as Praise-Giver: Whose Story Shall We Tell?

November 3, 2015 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

by Gene Fant

great gatsby_coverF. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is among my favorite novels, precisely because I have a personal connection with its story. I had read it several times in my education, but when I landed my first high school teaching position right after graduate school, I had to teach it to eleventh graders, so I opened it afresh to prepare. I read it at my new home, a rented guest cottage on a multi-millionaire Polish duke’s estate in Virginia. It was a waterfront estate that was once a part of the property of George Washington’s ancestors. The river was a branch of the Chesapeake Bay, and on late summer evenings, I could stand on the pier and watch the parties of the wealthy underway up the shore. There were even flickering green lights at the ends of many of the piers, just like those in the harbor between the Eggs in Gatsby. At some point in my reading, I realized that I was Nick Carraway, the rather penniless observer of the wealthy. I had a view but no standing. I learned their ways, but I knew that I would unlikely have the resources actually to participate as a full-fledged member of that society. I grew to adore the novel precisely because I felt as though I were a character in it.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Literature, Worldview Tagged With: Literature

Desiring the Transcendent

February 10, 2015 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

WassertropfenThe following is written by guest contributor Paul Gould, Professor of Philosophy and Apologetics at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

It is a datum of human experience that we crave. We want, long, yearn, desire. Some things we crave are petty—tickets to the Packers game, a box of Raisinets©, a new fountain pen.  Other things are more central to our well-being—staying healthy, material possessions.  And some are essential to our well-being—intimacy, meaning, purpose.

Erwin McManus has written a book exploring three of these core human soul cravings: the universal human longings for intimacy, meaning, and destiny. He argues: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apologetics, Theology, Worldview

The American Worldview and the Four Worldview Questions

January 30, 2015 by bhacademic 1 Comment

DevelopingaBiblicalWorldView_CVRIn chapter 6 of his new book Developing a Biblical Worldview, C. Fred Smith discusses secularism and the “American” worldview.  In the excerpt below he introduces the four worldview questions. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apologetics, Cultural Engagement, Worldview

NCIS and the Christian Worldview

January 27, 2015 by bhacademic Leave a Comment

DevelopingaBiblicalWorldView_CVRIn chapter 7 of his new book Developing a Biblical Worldview, C. Fred Smith discusses a biblical worldview in the context of popular culture.  In the excerpt below he looks at television, and the popular crime drama NCIS. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Apologetics, Cultural Engagement, Worldview

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