The Life of Faith in Reason: A Hegelian Perspective

Faith is a calculated step in reasoning when gaps in our understanding are present.

Philipp Hauser | Vanderbilt Synesis | Spring 2019

Faith and the Invisible: Taking the Leap

Reason allows us to consider the visible world around us, and to decide what to believe about reality. Faith enables us to take the leap into believing it.

Hailey Scherer | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2018

Revisiting the Concept of Scientism: An Interview with MIT Professor Dr. Ian Hutchinson

"Historically, Christianity was in many respects a fertile philosophical and theological environment in which science, as we know it, got going."

Anelise Powers | CalPoly Aletheia | Fall 2016

In the Beginning, [Insert Here] Created the Heavens and the Earth

In fact, as an important parallel, the vast majority of Christians in fields of theology have abandoned a literal interpretation of the Book of Revelation in favor of a more symbolic and poetic account.

Collin English | The Hopkins Dialectic | Fall 2016

A Defense of Leibniz’s Cosmological Argument from Contingency

Cosmological arguments attempt to demonstrate the existence of a deity based on the mere existence of the universe.

Luke Dickens | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2016

The Dilemma of Faith in a Secular Age

Likewise, ours is an age in which believers and non-believers alike struggle with doubt about whether our beliefs are indeed the right ones.

Micaela Walker | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2016

The Religious Beliefs of Scientists

At first glance, there seems to be no doubt that scientists as a whole affiliate less with religion than the general public.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015

Examining Moral Failure in the Bible

When many skeptics critique biblical figures such as David, Abraham, or Moses, they do so with the assumption that any evidence that compromises these figures’ moral authority compromises the Bible’s authority.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2015

Can Science Replace God?

Much of modern debate between atheists and theists has centered on a purported conflict between science and religion.

Joshua Tseng-Tham | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2014

Why Apologetics? An interview with David Skeel

Rather than assuming that most people hold loosely Christian views, or trying to demonstrate that non-Christian views have no foundation, I focus on how Christianity explains the world as we actually experience it.

Nathaniel Schmucker | The Dartmouth Apologia | Spring 2014

A Defense of the Argument from Motion

When I was first introduced to St. Thomas Aquinas’ Five Ways, I was unimpressed. I was a junior attending Catholic high school, and, at the time, I did not believe in God.

Greg Brown | Swarthmore Peripateo | Spring 2014

An Interview with Professor Jeffrey Reimer

"[On science and faith:] It’s like living with your brother. You’re different but you’re close, and that’s how conflict can arise too."

Jonathan Chan & Chloe Ng | UC Berkeley TAUG | Spring 2014

Costly Consolation: Freud’s Illusion and Bonhoefferian Grace

Sigmund Freud once wrote that the idea of religion is “born from man’s need to make his helplessness tolerable.”

Paul Escher | St. Olaf Avodah | Spring 2014

A Response to Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion

[Dawkins] believes that a God who created the universe would be too complex a beginning to be the most probable cause of the universe.

Yesuto Shaw | The Dartmouth Apologia | Fall 2012

Can We Talk? America’s Troubled Science and Religion Conversation

How is it that ‘science' is allowed to toss its historical baggage, but religion must forever be defined by the ancient baggage carried by its least informed?

Karl Giberson | The Harvard Ichthus | Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2012

Thoughts on New Atheism

Every worldview makes truth claims and faith assumptions to show its uniqueness and superiority over other worldviews, and New Atheism is no exception.

Jabez Yeo | U Penn Lamp Post | Issue 01, Spring 2012

God, Unifier of Mathematical Truths

It is peculiar enough that Christianity was once considered the more elegant worldview, and from this worldview came the rise of modern mathematics.

Willis Zhang | UPenn Lamp Post | Issue 1, Spring 2012

Mustard Seed Faith

Confirmation bias is a psychological phenomenon which describes our tendency to seek out information that confirms our opinions and beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts what we believe. I take a lot more time on each page when I’m reading C.S. Lewis compared to Richard Dawkins.

Andy Morgosh | The Williams Telos | Spring 2012

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