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By Penn-Noble Science has been defined as the systematic study of the natural world, and rightly so. That is a generally agreed-upon definition and there’s nothing particularly controversial about that. However, there is disagreement over whether that definition excludes any consideration of the “supernatural.” Now, when I say there is disagreement, I don’t mean amongstContinue reading “Should Science and Theology Be Separated?”

By Penn-Noble I am thankful to live in a time and place where I have access to all sorts of great resources to strengthen and deepen my walk with Christ. I constantly have to repent for not taking enough advantage of them. That said, I wanted to compile a list of books that have deepenedContinue reading “Books That I Recommend That Have Strengthened My Faith”

By Penn-Noble Over the past few years, it has been common for me to hear this from people. “I found my first playboy under my dad’s bed.” “Dad let me try my first beer at seven years old.” “My dad was pretty absent growing up.” We live in a world where men have become children.Continue reading “A Rare Gift: In Honor of My Father”

By Penn-Noble I’ve been watching and listening to the soundtracks of musicals for about eight years now, and I have my middle school English teacher to thank for that. She was the one who introduced me to the show that got me interested interests in musicals in the first place. I’ve also been in aContinue reading “One-Line Summaries of Musicals”

By Penn-Noble Disney, you have been a huge part of my life. It may sound odd to sound this sentimental towards a company such as Disney, but to be honest, many of my interests, hobbies, inspirations, and aspirations have been formed by it. Growing up, Walt Disney was always one of my heroes. I alwaysContinue reading “Goodbye, Disney. A Former Disney Fanatic’s Letter of Resignation from the Fan Club”

The Babylon Bee-Toddler Fails To See How Parents Can Be Both All-Powerful And All-Loving When They Just Took Away Fun Knife He Was Playing With

By Penn-Noble We’ve been through a lot in the United States of America. As a country, I am thankful that we have been so successful in fighting many of the different evils that we have been guilty of over the years. We put slavery to rest in the 1800s. Nowadays, neither the government nor yourContinue reading “We Are Almost There: A Call to Prepare for Another Historic Battle”

By Lane Noble “Never take for granted having a godly mother.” –Donald Penn It would take multiple libraries to be able to properly honor my mother in writing. However, since this is a blog post, I will do my best to do it in this small space I have here on the internet. My grandfatherContinue reading “One of My Greatest Blessings: A Tribute to My Mother”

Check out this short blog post from one of my heroes interviewing one of my former colleagues, Karina Altman, about maintaining a strong faith in secular settings.

By Penn-Noble In this installment of “Responding to Online Skeptics,” I’m going to be responding to a YouTube video put out by the channel “The Thinking Atheist.” Run by Seth Andrews, this is a channel dedicated to advocating for secularism and criticizing religion. Especially Christianity. Despite the name of the channel, I have to sayContinue reading “Responding to Online Skeptics: Is Suzie Ignorant?”

By Penn-Noble This post is the first of the new Responding to Online Atheists series. This is a series dedicated to examining and lovingly responding to claims by secular skeptics of the Bible. On March 21, Kevin Davis, writing for Only Sky, wrote a blog post entitled The Babylon Bee Chooses Misgendering as its hillContinue reading “Responding to Online Skeptics: Is the Babylon Bee Promoting Bigotry?”

By Lane Noble My dear Murdrid, I must say that I am thoroughly disappointed in your naivete. Even the least competent of tempters would have known better than to make the mistake that you have made! I should say I’m a little hesitant to give you any more wisdom if you’re going to be thisContinue reading “The Jugtip Letters (Part 2): The Deadly Lie”

By Lane Noble The Jugtip Letters are a series of fictional blog posts that imitate C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters.” Jugtip, a senior demon, mentors his nephew Murdrid, in how best to tempt humans towards sin and detract glory from God. My dear Murdrid, I’m delighted to hear that your training went very well, andContinue reading “The Jugtip Letters (Part 1): The Unknown Target”

By Lane Noble The past five years have brought many structural changes to the “free speech debate.” I use that language carefully and intentionally because for many years, debates over free speech and the nature of individual rights to free speech have taken many different forms. In many cases, the debate hasn’t centered on whetherContinue reading “The Heart of the Free Speech Debate”

By Lane Noble I pulled into the church parking lot, feeling more depressed than I had in a long time. I didn’t know how to deal with the emotions I was struggling with, how long I would be struggling with them, or even if I would make it through the day without becoming psychotic. AllContinue reading “How to Survive Grief: What I’ve Learned from the Greatest Tragedy of My Life”