Parchment & Pen Blog

This reflection is a response to “The Coming Evangelical Collapse“ by Michael Spencer published in The Christian Science Monitor (March 10 2009) I have for years believed that American Evangelicalism (not Christianity) was skating on thin ice, spiritually and intellectually. As a movement we (not all of us individually) have suffered from a host of [...]

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This concerns an event that happened in 2003 with my sister Angie. When my sister Angie was sick with depression, the entire family was perpetually in fear of what she might do to herself. Her depression overcame her literally overnight. She was fine on a Thursday, never having experienced depression and anxiety before, then Friday [...]

Its my son Zach’s 2 year birthday today. Going to Chuck-e-Cheese. Word about Facebook: the “friend” thing is really odd. I have added a lot of friends that I don’t know, but now they seem to be more of the flavor that add you so that they can spam. Going to have to rethink this. [...]

Christopher Hitchens and Frank Turek debate the question, “Does God Exist?” Turek vs. Hitchens Debate: Does God Exist? from Andrew Ketchum on Vimeo.

I believe that we are to defend the faith. I believe that we are to contend for the faith. One of my great loves in theology is the discipline of apologetics. But sometimes our zealousness for our faith can have the opposite effect and actually undermine our witness. We can shame God. What if God read your [...]

(This post was lost during the Great Crash of 08—it is found) In the Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, by Norm Geisler (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998; p. 532), there is a comment about the number of textual variants among New Testament manuscripts: Some have estimated there are about 200,000 of them. First of all, these [...]