Why Great Literature Still Matters
Dante’s Divine Comedy Why does Dante’s Divine Comedy still speak powerfully today — even in a digital age that often flattens the human experience? In this rich conversation, Dr. Jason … Read more
Wm. Travis Coblentz
WorldView Academy 2025
WorldView Academy 2025
Presented through the partnership of Samford University and Tactical Faith.
Date: July 19
Times: 8:00a – 5:30p
Location: Samford University, Brooks Hall Auditorium
Cost: None
Light refreshments and coffee will be provided. Attendees must cover their own lunch.
RSVP by June 30th to reserve your spot.
Answering the Big Question of Faith II: No Faith, No Coherence; Know Faith, Know Coherence
Introduction Here, we come finally to the end of this series, though clearly not to the end of trying to understand and present the riches of faith, and how faith … Read more
Things Darwinian Evolution Cannot Explain
This is a special guest blog post from Cathryn Buse. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and graduated from the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a masters in Engineering.
Answering the Big Question of Faith I: Science as Useful, but Truncated Perception
We must begin our response by saying that Rich Sam’s questions (described in the previous blog) cannot be answered fully. It is possible that we are merely deluded. It is … Read more
Rich Sam Asks the Big Question of Faith
This series of blogs has been spurred by the apparent conflict between scientific styles of reasoning and faith. But we have had to do a lot of “throat-clearing,” defining terms … Read more
Bananas (and Duct Tape) for Science! Faith, Science, and “Men without Chests”
Review So far in this series of blogs, we’ve looked at the problem of faith and talked about how faith is used in contexts that are not necessarily religious, as … Read more
You See What You Want? Science and Faith
In the previous article on faith, entitled Overlapping Magisteria, we saw various ways that faith is used in non-religious contexts. They invariably relate to belief in a person—in that person’s … Read more
Overlapping Magisteria
In the previous blog, we looked quickly at what I think are decent reasons for unbelievers to be skeptical about faith—specifically about the relationship between faith and publicly available evidence. … Read more
Rich Sam and the Trouble with Faith
Faith is a problem. Or, at least, it really seems to be a problem, for both Christian and non-Christian alike. Atheists who are big fans of science are particularly critical … Read more