Learning to value, develop, deepen, and use your intellect in the overall process of spiritual transformation is a lot like being a fix-it man.

The primary characteristic of modern secularism is its view of the nature and limits of knowledge.

As Christopher Lasch notes, “[Narcissistic] students object to the introduction of requirements in general education because the work demands too much of them and seldom leads to lucrative employment.”

Later, as the October 20, 1996, issue of Parade magazine reports, Graham was asked what he would do differently if given the chance. He replied, “I would have studied more. I would have gotten my Ph.D. in anthropology.”

the interior life does not really matter all that much, why spend the time reading and trying to develop an interior, intellectual, spiritually mature life? If someone is basically passive, he or she will just not make the effort to read, preferring instead to be entertained. If a person is sensate in orientation, music, magazines filled with

Note Hull’s comment that if a person or group dissociates the species-specific designation “Homo sapiens” from the designation “human being,” with all of its attendant moral and theological implications, then that person or group has a “less plausible position.” Why? Why should that which we see, hear, feel, taste, or touch (or observe through

Spiritual warfare is a struggle with persons, demonic and human, and the primary way persons influence other persons is through the ideas they get others to accept. Thus, intellectual tools and reasoning are an important part, though not the whole of spiritual warfare. The other primary components are spiritual preparedness, discernment, courage,

Second, naturalism contains a creation story — a theory, a causal story, about how everything has come-to-be.

We need to keep two things firmly planted in the center of our minds. First, we simply must reaffirm our commitment to truth and right reason and be confident that our Christian beliefs both warrant that commitment and will flourish in light of it. As Roger Trigg has noted, “Any commitment, it seems, depends on two distinct elements. It presupposes