https://youtu.be/TGgh2y0i4U0?si=vzjk4MLz_XpTpYGc Join Dr. Ken Boa and Glenn Sunshine for a reflective journey into the world of poetry, with a focus on the enduring legacy of poet John Davies. In this insightful episode, they discuss how Davies's verses continue to...
The story of St. Patrick and the transformation of pagan Irish culture into "the Island of Saints and Scholars." The Irish became the best scholars in western and central Europe and had an out-sized impact on education,...
In last week’s post, I reviewed John Lennox’s book 2084 about AI. This week saw a controversy erupt over bias in AI. When Gemini, Google's AI engine, asked to generate pictures in response to specific prompts, it produced wildly inaccurate results. American founding...
An overview of biblical views of labor and wealth, starting from Genesis and continuing through Scripture and church history. This lecture was prepared for the Christian Open Academy in Ukraine.
Revisionist attempts to reinterpret the first Thanksgiving have muddled the history of Plymouth Colony and the Pilgrims. Some on the right call the historical events a “triumph of capitalism,” getting the chronology of events wrong. Voices on the left often accuse...
November marks the death of Johannes Kepler, one of the most important figures of the Scientific Revolution and a scientist who was motivated by his Christian beliefs. The significance of Kepler’s work can only be understood in light of what he faced and risked. The...
The despicable and horrendous attacks by Hamas against civilians last week, including beheading children and kidnapping the elderly, seems a throwback to some distant, barbaric past of human history. We may have thought the world had long ago outgrown such barbarity,...
Part one of our engaging conversation with Dr. Glenn Sunshine takes us into the heart of medieval missions, focusing on influential figures like Saint Boniface and Saint Patrick. Dr. Sunshine, with his deep knowledge of European history, paints a vivid picture of the...
Like everything else it seems, American history is being weaponized in our political and cultural wars, with both sides often playing fast and loose with the facts and adopting interpretations intended to score political points rather than to come to a deeper...
Every year at Christmas time we hear arguments that our Christmas celebrations are little more than warmed over paganism. We hear that the date was selected to compete with pagan holidays, or worse, to absorb pagan holidays into the church, and that our Christmas...