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The Problem of Suffering
These days, the resources produced by Fixed Point Foundation are literally being used all over the world… A businessman in Berlin, Germany listening to a Latimer House Luncheon he downloaded from...
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Till We Have Faces
Till We Have Faces is not typical C.S. Lewis fare. Lewis’ most famous fiction contains fairly obvious Christian symbols and parallels: Aslan = Christ, Witch = Satan, and so on. J.R.R. Tolkien, by...
View ArticleThe God Delusion Debate Preview
“Darwin’s Rottweiler is about to get a run for his money…” – BBC The God Delusion, the world-wide best-seller by atheist and scientist Prof. Richard Dawkins, is an all-out assault on religion in...
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Rabbit Hole
Far from the light fare of Alice in Wonderland (from which the title is derived), Rabbit Hole is a sobering and wrenching story about how parents respond to the accidental death of their four year old...
View ArticleWhere is the West going?
In an interview with Larry Taunton, philosopher and author Peter Kreeft predicts the future of the West.
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Marxism (Unconvincingly) Defended
Are Marxism and religion compatible? Religion Dispatches recently posted Theo Hobson’s engaging review of Terry Eagleton’s latest book, Why Marx was Right. Despite the internal debate taking place...
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Christianity for Modern Pagans
Nonfiction – Blaise Pascal is rightly regarded as the father of modern apologetics. A contemporary of René Descartes (mid 17th century), Pascal stood athwart the birth of modern skepticism, holding...
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Hedonism and the Secret of Happiness
“I have never been more depressed than when I tried to be a hedonist,” confesses Johann Hari in a recent article critiquing today’s homosexual culture. As a prominent homosexual and secularist himself,...
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The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K. Chesterton is perhaps best known to modern audiences as one of the authors who most profoundly influenced C.S. Lewis. In that light, Chesterton is a fascinating person to read, tracing the origins...
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Human Rights without God?
Perhaps the single most contested issue in the secularism/religion debate is the issue of moral foundations. Where do they come from? What justifies our actions? And of course, tied intricately with...
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Australia Debate
Our most recent debate featuring John Lennox and Peter Singer took place this week in Melbourne, Australia – Singer’s home-town. Described by one prominent evangelical as a “watershed moment for...
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Metaphysics and the Metaphor
All of us hold beliefs and assumptions – some basic and fundamental philosophy that colors our thoughts and interpretations of the world around us. Some assumptions are simple, some are complex, but we...
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The Bitten Apple
Despite our post yesterday considering the significance of death, it seemed worth revisiting today in light of the announcement that tech industry giant Steve Jobs died last night of pancreatic cancer...
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The Art of Mediocre
Here is an interesting – but fittingly mediocre – piece from the Atlantic examining one artist’s new (lack of) vision and pursuit of the universal average. In the words of the artist, he wants art to...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Like Frankenstein, Dracula, and any number of other classical works, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has suffered from its portrayals in pop-culture. The original...
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Is The World An Idea?
Have you seen Christopher Nolan’s film Inception recently? Do you remember the moment when Cobb is explaining how dreams work, and he speaks about our minds creating and perceiving reality at the same...
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Lord of the Flies
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.” – Alan Paton William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is, in every sense of the word, a tragedy. Written only...
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Reading Evil Books
Best-selling author Benjamin Wiker describes why “good people” should read and be familiar with society’s most destructive titles. Duration: 58 minutes...
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There's More to Life Than Happiness
Saying that our society is “materialistic” hardly counts as an insightful cultural observation anymore; everyone knows it, everyone knows that it’s a problem, and yet, if anything, we seem to be...
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What is a Human Being?
Here at Fixed Point, we’re fascinated by human nature. With that in mind, check out this post by Mental Floss offering twenty-nine perspectives on the essence of being human. Do any of these...
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A Little Boring is Good
Giles Frasier of The Guardian thinks a little bit of boring is good for us. It’s a counter-cultural suggestion in a world that’s “pathologically fearful” of boredom, as we’ve noted before. But...
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Out of the Mouth of Babes
Take a look at this interesting piece from The Guardian, detailing recent studies that suggest infants might have an inborn sense of morality and fairness. The studies are fascinating, and fly directly...
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A Tribute to G.K. Chesterton
Writing in The Atlantic, James Parker pens a fine tribute to the enigmatic writer and theologian G. K. Chesterton, author of The Man Who Was Thursday (read our recommendation of it here), Orthodoxy,...
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Google Smothers the Search for Truth
In The Verge, Thomas Ricker gives a comical reflection on his increasing forgetfulness: Google’s making me dumb. He blames the search giant for its ready-made, easy-access answers to everything: “Why...
View ArticleLarry Taunton on Finding God in Our Pain & Suffering
Fixed Point Foundation’s Executive Director Larry Taunton returns to The Rick & Bubba Show to discuss being nearly killed by a car while cycling and where we find God in our pain and suffering....
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