What Plato Can Teach Us About Public Opinion and Politics
Plato’s The Republic continues to be read, taught, and studied many centuries beyond its writing. It endures because of the way it raises fundamental questions about politics. Many Christians have been exposed to The Republic through C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. When Lewis writes that the head rules the body through the chest, he…
Did Christians Lie About the Martyrdom Accounts of the Apostles?
In my recent book The Fate of The Apostles, I discuss the historical evidence that the apostles of Jesus were all willing to suffer and die for their belief that they had seen the risen Jesus. Yet as soon as this argument is made, a common objection is: “But Christians wrote the martyrdom accounts? How…
Practicing Solitude
Recently, my classmates and I backpacked near the town of Pisgah, Alabama for four days. From the moment we strapped on our bags— which were three times our size, we realized there would be many challenges we would have to confront. For myself, the challenge manifested itself on our third day when the wonderful David…
