Joshua Spatha

The postmodern age introduced speech regulation and redefinition eerily reminiscent of George Orwell's "newspeak" in his dystopian novel, 1984 and it would seem even science has embraced it. Concepts such as "Regimes of Truth," derived from Michel Foucault's ideas (who coincidentally died in 1984), are mixed with those of Jacques Derrida that claim language doesn't have actual meaning, but rather, words only derive meaning by how they are related to other words. This philosophical concoction...

Baptism. It is a sacrament and a fundamental aspect of the Christian faith, and yet often is fundamentally misunderstood. It is instructed as the essential first step in making the decision to follow Christ, yet it is often either delayed or treated as optional and unnecessary. Many questions continue to swirl regarding its practice, application, and purpose, and part of the issue lies in the fact that its ancient Near Eastern meaning is lost on a modern, Westernized audience. But baptism is...

Was the universe designed and created or was it a cosmic accident, a product of time and chance? The debate has raged for millennia with increasing sophistication in models, data, and arguments, particularly since The Enlightenment period. The West is currently captivated by naturalistic explanations with nearly all scientific funding and investigation aimed exclusively and myopically at material causes. But beneath the naturalistic paradigm lies a deeper paradox—that not only did non-living...