By Dr Bob Stouffer. Posted Sunday, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:45 pm Filed Under: Education, Evolution, Faith, Featured
Prior to the start of the school year, a parent very wisely asked me to write an article which essentially responds to the following question - “How can a Christian effectively respond to ‘Walking with Dinosaurs: The Life Experience,’ a traveling stage show which depicts dinosaurs as they lived prior to extinction?”
The “Walking with Dinosaurs” production is described by the producers as a “dazzling arena spectacle of unprecedented size and quality,” and it is scheduled in Des Moines for October 1-5 at the Iowa Events Center.
What’s the rub?! Why any controversy?! Dinosaurs are cool! Dinosaurs fascinate people, particularly schoolchildren. “There’s no harm in studying dinosaurs,” you might say.
By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:50 pm Filed Under: Barack Obama, Disasters, Floods of 2008, Poverty, Sacrifice, Suffering
What is Suffering?
The most traumatic place I’ve yet visited on this Earth is Auschwitz-Birkenau. I was there with some friends in 2005.
I know I’ve talked about it before. The awful things that were done to people during that war. The humiliation. The beatings. The dreadful murders of so many people. The intense fear and pain [...]
By Dr Bob Stouffer. Posted Tuesday, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:30 pm Filed Under: Evolution, Faith, Intelligent Design, Science
New Writer
Dr. Bob Stouffer is Superintendent of Des Moines Christian School in Urbandale, Iowa, and the newest addition to The Conservative Reader’s Editorial Team.
On Monday, April 14, 2008, I was privileged to join a large theater audience in Des Moines for a special viewing of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a documentary by Ben Stein [...]