you might start by reading c.s. lewis, for starters. i had never really heard much about c.s. king up some of the things he had written, particularly mere christianity, made it clear to me that oh my gosh, there is a compelling, intellectual, rational basis for faith which i had totally missed and assumed did not exist. it took me a couple of years of fighting against that, trying to prove this was all wrong and that i could stick with my agnosticism, but ultimately i realized i couldn't and that it was so compelling. i had to figure out which of the ways of understanding god is going to be the one that i can make the most sense out of? after many considerations of various faith traditions, ultimately the person of jesus appealed to me in a remarkable way as a historical figure, not a myth, who had answers to questions i needed answers for, and whose life, death, and resurrection seem to be remarkably well documented. david: your view would be that what is in the bible is allegorical, not to be taken as absolute fact. in other words, the bible would say maybe the earth is a cou

so, number one, do what c.s. lewis told you to do. before you aide read a new -- before you read a new book, maybe pick pick up a dozen or so old ones and read them because those ideas have been around a while, and there's a reason they've been around a while. they've stood the test of time. so don't assume -- and he accused his own burgeoning new generation of chronological snobbery. i'll be so blunt as to challenge you not to fall into the same trap. don't get involved in chronological snobbery where you think the only idea worth considering is something on this phone that just came across your twitter feed. go read the old books that have stood the test of time and know what they say. and odds are because they won the debate a thousand years ago, they'll probably be of value in winning the debate today. that would be my first point of advice. the second is get a spine, get some courage and have some confidence. it's amazing to me, it's amazing to me how few people on the conservative side of the debate have the courage and the conf

book of all time the book i've returned to the most is probably the line which in the wardrobe c.s. lewis chile town to me twenty three what was it like going to notre dame high school in the isles illinois danny he said danny gave the commencement speech there in two thousand and thirteen i did i think my speech was about embracing or in a weird. sort of you know i think it was an incredible experience i some i still have my son my best friends are from that experience all boys high school so it definitely not prepare me for speaking to women. just outside chicago northwest side and at the same time it was just a wonderful experience very tight knit group of friends got to see a lot i got to play football for two weeks before i broke my collarbone i got to do everything was great. how was working on the smurfs movie is amazing this is mostly is my first actual voiceover project and so i got worse nerve i was brainy smart. you do those voices pretty good banks thanks larry it was fun. nabj the flu for if you were to what do you think you do pursued if i was an actor what i would have purs

me george mcdonald a writer from the turn of the 1800s to 1900s a writer that led to version of c.s. lewis if you will had this to say core principle of hell is i am my own. i am my own king. i am the center. i'm the october and i'm the end. my judgment is the faultless rule of all things. the claim that we can define and reare define everything from marriage to morality from male to female everything from what it means to be goods and what it means to be bad this claim of god-like deity can only lead to the ugly hell of our own making. i believe it is only repentance and confession that will rescue us from this fate. so i'm the guy who wrote this op-ed titled this is a university it's not a day care. let me give you a little bit of a context and then we're going to launch into a little bit of a script and i'll ad lib as we go along too. it was just before thanksgiving 2015, oklahoma wesley university still has required chapels every wednesday and fridays. and i received a phone call from a vice president who was chapel speaker on this particular day. i didn't go to chapel that day i had s

thinking although i do think something has happened again although c.s. lewist it in his book talking about the '30's and a subjective feelings verses objective feelings and talk about the subtle shift in education already way back in the '30's and this is the issue of our time. we understand the feelings are subjective but post modernism and most people don't even know what that is. i don't want to get into that right now but objective ideas about truth that concept have ben winning for some years so they act as though their feelings are so strong and powerful to outweigh the truth and if we don't teach ourselves how to think we will of fall prey to mob rule. nazi, germany did not happen because people were thinking the bloodbath of the french revolution because they were thinking but they wanted to go with the flow and a dire really a angry threw caution to the wind end behaved abominably per you can say this about rwanda the impulse is to feel morally superior in demonize those with and disagree then want to destroy them politically or literally that is the

do think something has happened again, it's in the last 40 or 50 years, lewis, c.s. lewisabolition of man," talking bat textbook from the '30s, talking about subjective feelings vs. objective feelings, and he talks about the subtle shift going noneducation, way back in thehi '30s already, this is the issue of our time. can we understand that feelings are subjective and that what matters is what is true. i think that post modernism, most people dent even know what that and is what the heck is it? i don't want to get into that conversation right now. something happened where objective ideas about truth have been on the wane, the concept of objective truth has been on thec wane for some years and people say, feel this or i feel that, and they act as though they're feelings, because they're so strong, so powerful, outweigh the truth, and i really think that if we don't teach ours and our kid how to think, we will all fall prey to mob rule. nazi germany didn't happen because people were thinking. the blood bath of the french revolution didn't happen because people were thinking