Keith Craig Branch AUGUST 12, 1947 – NOVEMBER 4, 2023 IN THE CARE OF Southern Heritage Funeral Home & Cemetery Keith Craig Branch passed away on Saturday, November 4, 2023, and is now at home with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Through the faithful discipleship of Frank Barker, Craig came to know and love Jesus in … Read More
by James A. Herrick- We are only at the threshold of a new spiritual epoch.¹ ~ Carl Jung Marilyn Ferguson claimed in her bestselling book, The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), that scientific breakthroughs would soon “thrust us into a new, higher order” of spiritual awareness.² The prevailing Western “paradigm” founded on the Judeo-Christian worldview had, she … Read More
by Craig Branch – Introduction to Areopagus Journal Vol. 6, No. 4- In 1969 I was still taking the scenic route through college at an urban university in Richmond, Virginia. The university was known for its radical hippie population. The Fifth Dimension had just released its award-winning gold record, “Age of Aquarius.” Its popularity was … Read More
by Roy Massie What should you know to help you navigate through smooth-talkers, deceptive advertising, pushy people in the PTA, cults that knock on your front door and other realities of daily living? Why can companies sell mil lions more cans of sugar water by suggesting that drinking it will make anyone more appealing than … Read More
Glossary of Terms Argument – A formal way to using supporting statements (premises) to draw a conclusion. Conclusion – The statement in an argument that the premises claim to support. Deductive Argument – An argument in which the arguer claims that it is impossible for the conclusion to be false given that the premises are … Read More
by Steven B. Cowan- “Isn’t logic the invention of human beings?” “Does reality really have to be rational or logical?” “Why can’t there be square circles?” These kinds of questions are frequently asked in our postmodern culture. There is a suspicion, given our relativistic and “tolerant” climate, that logic and rationality are optional; that … Read More
by W. Jay Wood – This article is about virtue epistemology. In a nutshell, virtue epistemologists claim that acquiring deeply anchored habits of excellent cognitive functioning greatly assists us to win life’s most interesting and important knowledge. As I will argue, excellent cognitive functioning at its highest levels requires the cooperation of our wills; appropriate … Read More
by Craig Branch – (Introduction to Areopagus Journal Vo. 6 No. 2, March-April 2006) There is a scene early on in C.S. Lewis’s novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in which the character Lucy has just returned from her first journey into Narnia and has told her siblings about this magical place. … Read More
by Craig Branch – (The Introduction to the Areopagus Journal Vol. 6 No. 1, January-February 2006) Several years ago, I tuned in to the O’Reilly Factor because I heard Bill O’Reilly was going to interview Dr. Paige Patterson, then the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, about the SBC initiative to pray for and evangelize … Read More
by Craig Branch – The introduction to Areopagus Journal Vol. 5 No. 4, July-August 2005. You know them as Jehovah’s Witnesses. The official name of their organization is the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, abbreviated Watchtower Society (hereafter WTS). Most Christians only know them as occasional nuisances who come knocking on their doors, usually on … Read More
by Craig Branch – (The introduction to Areopagus Journal Vol. 5 No. 1 January-February 2005) One of the primary goals we have for producing Areopagus Journal is to provide a sound theological treatment of important worldview issues in a way that bridges the gap between the rarified air of intellectualism and the dumbed-down level of … Read More
by Craig Branch- This is the introduction to Areopagus Journal Vol. 5 No. 5 September-October 2005. This I say and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer as the Gentiles [unbelievers] also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of … Read More
by Gary L. Greene – What happens when we read a story? In many ways, the same thing that happens as we live, as we go places, as we meet people. Attentive reading is much like attentive living. As we encounter people, places, events, observations, we try to take them as they are, for what … Read More
by Charlie Peacock – I have at least two qualifications for writing on the subject of how to make the most of a concert experience. One, I’ve given concert performances (on some level) for thirty-eight years. Secondly, I’ve done a bit of study and writing on the subject (in the context of what it means … Read More
by Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin Before thinking about the question of how to look at art in museums we should say a few things about the art museum as a public institution itself. It was only since the eighteenth century that the idea of a separate building dedicated to the public display of paintings, sculptures and … Read More