As we approach Easter, scores of magazines, papers, and periodicals will open the question of the historicity of Jesus' resurrection. Opinions from various sides will represent their perspectives. Some will say the resurrection is a metaphor for new life; others a spiritual event that the disciples misinterpreted; and yet others that it is a fabrication. In contemplating whether or not the gospel accounts of Jesus' resurrection are reliable history, it's important to step outside of our own cRead More....

Do we choose between right and wrong on the basis of an internal moral compass, endowed by God? Or are our choices illusions in a cascade of cause and effect, of neurochemistry and electrical impulses? Historian C. John Sommerville argues for the former in this excellent essay on science and the soul. According to Sommerville, the latter, aka determinism,  depends upon reducing scientific concepts from the Read More....