Boyce Blog

Victor Sholar, pastor at Main Street Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky, delivers a message at Boyce Chapel on Luke 22:39-46. Boyce Chapel is held three times each semester in Heritage Hall.

Matthew Hoskinson, pastor at First Baptist Church of New York City, delivers a message at Boyce Chapel on Isaiah 22. Boyce Chapel is held three times each semester in Heritage Hall.

The “Faith” of Christopher Hitchens: A Conversation with Larry Taunton

Dialogue with the Dean is an interview-style conversation between the Dean of Boyce College and a scholar whose research impacts the Christian life. In this Dialogue with the Dean, Dr. DeWitt and Larry Taunton will discuss the importance of engaging atheists and agnostics in serious, yet compassionate, dialogue. The conversation will focus on Mr. Taunton’s relationship with the late, well-known atheist, Christopher Hitchens. Larry Taunton is an apologist, cultural commentator, and columnist. He is the founder and executive director of the Fixed Point Foundation and he has chaired and participated in several public debates with leading atheists around the world.

Join us for this conversation on Tuesday, February 9^th, at 5:30 p.m. in Sampey Commons. Free pizza and drinks will be provided between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Recently I joined a CrossFit gym. I’m sure you’ve probably seen those crazy people running around in garage-looking gyms throwing around barbells and rowing like mad men. I’m one of them now. Beyond the intense throbbing my body has felt in the post workout, I’ve been struck by something quite unexpected after joining these crazy people.

I love reading biographies. There is something about reading another person’s story that often causes you to understand your own thinking in a way that you have never perceived before. Last summer I read an autobiography of a man who was struggling with a particular moral decision. It was a gripping book and I found myself wanting to cry as I read parts of his story. There was one part in particular that sent shivers down my spine. It was when the author decided to go against Scripture, and go with his ‘feelings’ concerning the moral decision he was facing. He said he just had such a peace about it and ‘knew’ that God must have given him that peace. In the book, his moral decision led him into further sin and will eventually lead to death if he does not repent. I was sobered, because if I am very honest with myself, I have seen the same temptation to follow my own feelings in determining right and wrong.

Whenever something other than God’s Word becomes the foundation upon which we build reality, we depart from reality. This kind of moral confusion is the air that our culture breathes. Even Christians are in danger of being swayed by it. But the church must rely on the solid ground of the Word of God.

One of the things I enjoy most about living in the Louisville area is the change of seasons, and particularly the fall season that we are in now.

I was born in Pennsylvania, but my family moved to South Florida when I was 9 years old and I forgot a lot about the weather up north. In South Florida, however, I knew first hand that we never experienced a “White Christmas.” And, I used to kid that we experienced “Fall” on October 17th, when a palm frond would fall off the tree out front!

My wife Jan and I moved up to this area in August of the year I started as a student at Southern Seminary. As the fall approached, it didn’t take long for images I had not thought about in years to come back. Cooler weather, trees turning colors, leaves falling–I was in complete awe of this aspect of the beauty of God’s creation.