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Metaethics: A Short Companion: An Interview with David A. Horner and J. P. Moreland about their New Book
David Horner, J P Moreland — November 15, 2024
Talbot School of Theology Professors David A. Horner and J.P. Moreland recently published a new book — Metaethics: A Short Companion. Here,...
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How to Think Biblically about Morality and Ethics
with Dave Horner
David Horner, Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — November 12, 2024
How should we think biblically about morality in today’s culture? What do we way to the skeptic who insists that morality is nothing more than a...
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We Need to Go Back to Church
David Horner — June 03, 2022
Years ago, a friend gave a provocative talk in a seminary chapel on “Why I Stopped Going to Church.” His point was that church is something we are,...
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A Whole Family Changed by the Jesus Movement
David Horner, Deborah Horner — September 21, 2021
This post includes the testimony of Debbie Horner, wife of faculty member Dave Horner, whose family was transformed during the Jesus Movement. The...
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Faith and Reason — a Parable
David Horner — June 02, 2021
Faith and Reason were brothers. More than that, they were friends — indeed, best friends. Faith and Reason loved each other deeply and did...
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Hope Changes Everything
David Horner — April 23, 2020
We run on hope. Hope gets us out of bed—it energizes us, it focuses our attention, it pulls us out of ourselves. Hope overcomes our fears. As Tim...
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Virtue Ethics Turns 60
The Revolution Gets a Senior Discount
David Horner — November 19, 2018
Has virtue ethics become old and creaky? Irrelevant? Its energy spent or dwindling?
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Getting Clear About Tolerance
David Horner — November 14, 2018
Tolerance has become the only absolute virtue in our society: Thou shalt be tolerant (and, of course, thou shalt not tolerate anyone who isn’t)....
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Remembering to Remember: The Stories of God’s People
David Horner — November 13, 2018
In the world of science there is no more prestigious institution than Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory, home to more than two centuries...
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Are All Religions Created Equal?
Just How Many Ways Are There to Make Peace with God?
David Horner — July 02, 2018
Smorgasbords are tempting to the eyes and to the taste buds. Once a person has witnessed the extensive varieties of delicacies spread out in a fine...
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The Blind Men and the Elephant
David Horner — June 26, 2018
A popular analogy purporting to illustrate the truth of religious pluralism tells of four blind men who discover an elephant. Since the men have...
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Getting Clear About Tolerance
David Horner — June 19, 2018
Tolerance has become the only absolute virtue in our society: Thou shalt be tolerant (and, of course, thou shalt not tolerate anyone who isn't)....
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The Authority of the Bible, Part Four
David Horner — January 31, 2018
Because of health issues, it’s been more than two years since I last contributed to this series. I'm grateful to be back! To follow the thread of...
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What Good Are "Thoughts and Prayers" After a Mass Shooting?
David Horner — November 11, 2017
... Suffering is not only physical. It’s also emotional, psychological, relational and spiritual. Victims and their families have internal wounds and struggles; some find this pain equal to or even greater than that of their external wounds. Sufferers need comfort, love, a taste of goodness, a measure of peace. They need hope ...
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What Good Are “Thoughts and Prayers” After a Mass Shooting?
David Horner — December 08, 2015
"GOD ISN’T FIXING THIS," New York’s Daily News announced in the aftermath of the latest US mass shooting, in San Bernardino. Their target? Presidential candidates who immediately responded to the tragedy by offering sufferers their “thoughts and prayers,” not calling for more gun control.
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The Authority of the Bible, Part Three
David Horner — January 29, 2015
A wise person builds his or her house on a solid and lasting foundation. According to Jesus, such a foundation is rooted in him and his teaching about life. The wise person, said Jesus, “hears these words of mine and puts them into practice” (Matthew 7:24). It’s a call to follow what Jesus says as our authority. Claims to authority grind in our cultural gears. But this is often based on confusions about what authority is and what it means to follow it. In this series we’re unraveling some of those confusions ...
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Epiphany: God's Answer to Our Deepest Questions (Audio)
David Horner — January 01, 2015
In this audio recording, David Horner, Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies, shares about Epiphany and its significance in the life of the Christian.
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The Authority of the Bible, Part Two
David Horner — December 08, 2014
The Bible claims to be our supremely authoritative guide to life. But isn’t it irrational, oppressive, or even dangerous to base our lives on an ancient book—any book—rather than to “think for ourselves”? My claim in this short series is that basing our lives on the Bible is exactly what thinking for ourselves leads us to do—if we’re thinking well ...
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The Authority of the Bible, Part One
David Horner — August 27, 2014
How could it be reasonable to base my life on an ancient book (the Bible was written between 2000 and 3500 years ago)? Indeed, how could it be reasonable to base my life on any book? I should think for myself. To live by someone else’s instructions is to surrender my own mind and personality. That approach produces mindless drones, cultists and terrorists. Yet for two millennia, followers of Jesus from every culture and language have followed the Bible as their authority, from simple folks to some of history’s most influential scholars and intellectuals, from poor people with no political power to those in positions of great influence. And the world is radically different as a result.
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Lessons from the Foundry
David Horner — November 11, 2013
My family’s business, in the modest Colorado town where I grew up, was a foundry. For the uninitiated, a foundry is like a steel mill. Its basic operation is to melt ore (in our case, iron, brass, and aluminum) in a furnace, pour it into molds, and thereby produce metal castings. Our family joke was that my parents were “in the iron and steel business” – my mom would iron while my dad would steal. (I’ll spare you the rest of the foundry jokes.) Foundry work is hard, hot, dirty, and notoriously dangerous. Our furnace room temperature was 140 degrees fahrenheit.