By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 “Awesome” has become an overworked word in our culture, especially among young people. “Awesome” is slang for “enthusiastic approval.” Its root word, “awe,” is less used…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 On the evening of March 12, 2009, my wife and two dozen other Holy Land tourists arrived in Jerusalem by bus from Ben Gurion Airport. Before…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 At Christmastime, some radio stations modify their musical programming to conform to the season. Most stations assume a secular stance, only occasionally offering a carol with…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The term war conjures up powerful emotions. In most cases a war is a battle between those holding differing ideologies. Most often people associate war with…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The type of language used in scripture helps reveal the author’s purpose for writing. C. John (Jack) Collins recently addressed the Vibrant Dance of Faith and…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Most pastors have a clear goal for topical and stylistic emphasis in their preaching and the direction their educational programs should travel. For that clarity of…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Charles Darwin’s legacy, according to Stephen Meyer, Discovery Institute’s director of the Center for Science and Culture, is that the appearance of design features in living…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 Reasons to Believe scholar Fazale Rana, a biochemist, addressed evidence for design in the biosphere at his October 26, 2010 plenary address at the Hill Country…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 A humorous irony concerning physics and astronomy is revealed by the different terms sometimes used to describe these branches of science. Physics, with its applications related…
By: Jim Virkler; ©2010 The recent Vibrant Dance Symposium and its avowed purpose “to understand the landscape of faith/science interaction” brought together a blend of viewpoints from “expert witnesses.” Theistic…