The ongoing crisis in Venezuela is a calamitous one indeed. The country has faced widespread unemployment, shortages of food and medicine, hyperinflation, high crime rates, disease, and power cuts, among other deficiencies. Consequently, people have wondered why Venezuela has undergone such a rapid decline. One of the most common responses…

“Under capitalism, money occupies the ontological throne from which God has been evicted.” ― Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity I believe that our sense of freedom is deeply flawed. We understand freedom as having the ability to do whatever one wishes, without…

The advent of the Enlightenment and its culmination into the French Revolution brought forth a strong sense of liberation and optimism. No longer was man beholden to superstition when contemplating the nature of truth. Instead, he imparted the spirit of reason and was able to ponder reality and make inferences…

Modern science has undoubtedly made promising advances on the question of how. In its truest form, science observes certain structures or physical arrangements of the natural world, and from this observation, it makes predictions and draws provisional conclusions. The question of why, however, is one that science can never, in…

“Pride is the utter poverty of the soul, disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.” — Saint John Climacus “Pride is your greatest enemy; humility is your greatest friend.” — John Stott “We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists…

“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.” ― Mortimer J. Adler “To be human is to see that we are somehow incomplete…

Universalism is the doctrine that all persons will eventually be saved through coming to know God and the good as such. I believe this doctrine is a self-evident truth to all rational and moral persons. There are, however, two competing doctrines that seek to undermine universalism. The first is annihilationism…

Fascism is one of those terms that has undergone thorough abuse. The term often manifests when the opportunity to humiliate political opponents is present. There are utterances of “Islamo-Fascism,” “Liberal Fascism,” and a replete number of conservatives and nationalists diagnosed as fascists. Partly, this is because the term arouses the…

Throughout history, philosophers and theologians have sought to understand the problem of evil (POE.) The POE arises when one seeks to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with a perfectly good God. Traditionally, there have been various theodicies, defenses, and refutations that aim to provide answers as to why…