Duelling with Darwin: An Evening with G.K. Chesterton November 17, 2009Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington Join actor John Chalberg as he recreates a delightful evening with famed British writer G.K. Chesterton as Chesterton offers his witty and incisive thoughts about Darwin and Darwinism just in time for the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. This FREE event will take place at 7:30 pm at Demaray Hall 150 on the campus of Seattle Pacific University. We haven’t yet... Read more

Today, my whispering creatures of the night, I bid you to behold the wonders of the Umbilical Brothers: That is all! Read more

Today, my whispering creatures of the night, I bid you to behold the wonders of the Umbilical Brothers: That is all! Read more

A reader asks Hey Mark, you often say that libertarianism is for people without children. Could you elaborate on that a little bit (either on the blog or in an email)? I’m really feeling drawn to small-l libertarianism, if not to formal Libertarian Party membership. I’d like to hear your perspective on it. Thanks! Basically, libertarianism is a reaction to statism. Statism tends to emphasize the power of the state under the claim of pursuing solidarity or the common good.... Read more

A reader asks Hey Mark, you often say that libertarianism is for people without children. Could you elaborate on that a little bit (either on the blog or in an email)? I’m really feeling drawn to small-l libertarianism, if not to formal Libertarian Party membership. I’d like to hear your perspective on it. Thanks! Basically, libertarianism is a reaction to statism. Statism tends to emphasize the power of the state under the claim of pursuing solidarity or the common good.... Read more

of his unique contributions to linguistics. Read more

of his unique contributions to linguistics. Read more

My latest for Catholic Exchange. Read more

My latest for Catholic Exchange. Read more

The basic problem is that we are fallen. All religious, politican and moral systems are attempts to cope with that. (Christianity claims to be the system wherein we did not come up with the answer but rather God proactively solved the problem for us by bearing sinful humanity to the cross and raising it from the dead to new and divine life in christ.) Atheism copes with our fallenness by pretending it’s not true, all while maintaining a moralistic critique... Read more