Rob Haskell
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Monsters and Chaos creative

Monsters perpetually threaten to drag the world into chaos and lawlessness. But it turns out that those who most fear the monster are the ones most likely to become the

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God Bless the USA Bible Highlighting culture

There’s a lot of talk about Trump’s endorsement of a new God Bless the USA bible . I’m sure God is grateful. Most outsiders to American Christianity are probably unaware

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen” brainy

CS Lewis is the grandfather of Christian apologists. Learned, winsome, and epically good at writing children’s fantasy books. Like many people who grew up in Christian families, I read through

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The Three Stages of Bible Study creative

Stage one When you are first introduced to the Bible as child, you know that it is the word of God. You know it contains a wisdom that is higher

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Orbits creative

Yesterday I drove into town on highway 20, crossing the tiny slice of our globe that extends from Sedro Wooley to Burlington, using the stored energy of that other prominent

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“The Sanctity of Life” in Alabama’s Supreme Court IVF Decision culture

The news has been abuzz with outrage about a recent decision by the Alabama Supreme Court regarding IVF (“in vitro fertilization”), and Judge Tom Parker’s religious justification of the decision.

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The Fall creative

I fell from such dizzying heights Like icarus in a widening gyre Tumbling down in an elegant arc And spiraling away from all that is safe and certain. It’s not

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Doug and the Millers creative

A parable

The Millers lived a few miles outside of town, at the foot of a local mountain. I say mountain. Some people would call it a large hill. Depends on your

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Keep. It. Simple. culture

The power of appealing to basic principles in polemics about science

Skeptics, like the characters in Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities, live in the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand, we are reminded every day

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One Million Waves creative

Earth’s oceans are about 3.8 billion years old. Ocean waves are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the wind blowing on the surface of the water, plus

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