A song dedicated in friendship to Andrei N.  Keyboards by Brian Hernandez.

There has recently been a wave of “ex-vangelicals” who are publicly “deconstructing” their former faith and coming to new understandings of things. They are learning in real time that firm conviction does not always signal a perception of the truth. But I think the notion of “deconstruction” and its relation to faith has been very badly misunderstood, and in many places the discussion is dissatisfying. In this video, I am going to discuss the relation between deconstruction and faith. The...

Phenomenology is one of the most important and influential movements in contemporary philosophy, and yet it is also among the most difficult for the uninitiated to understand. My goal in this video is to introduce three basic principles of phenomenological philosophy of an ontological, epistemological, and methodological nature. The ontological principle asserts that consciousness is the arena of the self-disclosure of being. The epistemological principle asserts that knowledge is the...

Irenaeus is one very important figure from the early Church to which Roman Catholic theologians and apologists often appeal. They try to show that ideas such as apostolic succession, ecclesial infallibility, and even Roman primacy were known and wholeheartedly affirmed even as early as the second century after Christ. But does Irenaeus actually say the things that he is interpreted as saying? In this video, I provide a careful reading of Irenaeus's words in Against Heresies and put forth a...