Hello! I’m J.W. Wartick and I created this blog with the sole intention of writing apologetics. Christian Apologetics and Philosophy of Religion are my passions, and God continually opens new opportunities in this area. I will hopefully be attending graduate school for a Masters in Christian Apologetics.
I am a student member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.
I believe that the Bible is the Holy and Inerrant Word of God and the sole source of pure Christian Doctrine. I believe in the Triune God: The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, who are not three gods but One God. One Essence, Three Persons. I acknowledge and fully believe and adhere to the Three Ecumenical Creeds of the Christian Faith. I believe that salvation is in my Lord Jesus Christ alone, there is none other.
As part of my mission with apologetics, I’d love to hear questions and answer them as best as I can. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you’d like to see addressed in my blog or personally.
Please specify if you do not wish for your question to be used on my blog. Otherwise it may or may not be used as a blog entry at my discretion.
Contact:
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My review criteria are as follows:
The Quality of arguments is just what it says. Obviously this is subjective. Do I think the arguments presented in the book (if there are any) are valid and/or useful?
Overall Content is a general judge of how good I felt the book is.
Difficulty is the amount of work it takes to get through the work. Higher values don’t necessarily mean the book is better, just more difficult to read.
Clarity simply outlines how clear I believe the author was.
Theology/Doctrine is my judgment, clearly based on my presuppositions, of how good I felt the author’s theological or doctrinal content was (if there is any).
Value is a determination of whether I believe the book is worth the asking price.
Relevance outlines whether I think the book has real-life applications. A low score in this doesn’t necessarily mean the book is bad, just that I believe there may not be much to use. In other words, a book could score low on this criterion, but I might still find it quite good.
Hey there, JW
I just discovered that my blog banner wasn’t appearing and had to upload another one, guess it was gone for about three days, hmmm….
I notice that you’ve added a custom header to your theme. I like it! (Thumbs up!)
And btw, a Masters in Christian Apologetics is marvelously cool…I’m jealous!
Just wanted to let you know I was here… I will be back often.
Howdy, JW
Just wanted to suggest something. Probably most browsers now look for feeds on blogs, but just in case, why not add a link on your sidebar to your RSS feed? And one for your comments feed too?
The code is yourblogaddress.com/feed/ for the regular feed
and yourblogaddress.com/comments/feed for the comments feed. I know you’ve got those listed at the bottom of the page, but folks would see ‘em better up on the sidebar. And you can grab one of those little orange feed icons and stick it on there too.
Of course, you’re probably busy actually writing for your blog, not fiddling with the sidebar like I’ve been doin’. Yeah, there’s that.
Oops, forgot the last forward slash in the comments feed address, like so:
yourblogaddress.com/comments/feed/
Thanks for the info! I gotta say I don’t really have any idea what any of the stuff you’re talking about. I’ll try to figure it out tomorrow when I’ve gotten some sleep.
Heh. Sorry about that. I remembered that you said something about not knowing how to do the banner stuff when we first talked a while back. (But I gotta tell you again how much I like the one you’ve got up there now.) So I thought you might not know about RSS and feeds and such. So here goes.
Look at the bottom of your pages, any page. They all have these little words that say “Entries (RSS)” and “Comments (RSS)”. Now, depending on what browser you’re using, you should see the most recent comments on your blog displayed. That’s because WordPress creates a little file called a “feed” that lists your latest posts in one file and the latest comments in another, so that someone can use software to read those files so they can keep up with you without having to actually visit your blog. They can “subscribe” to these feeds all over the web and click a button to update all their subscribed feeds and read all the latest from all their favorite blogs and it’s simple for them.
Another way of them getting your feed is to look for that little icon that may be in the little address bar in your browser where you type URL’s (if you’re using Firefox or Flock or something like it). Click on that and you’ll see the latest posts and you’ll also see a link or a button you can click on to subscribe to that feed and you’ll have an option to add to the page you use as a homepage (Yahoo, Google, etc).
I’m sending my feed out through FeedBurner because they’ll handle it for me, make it look much nicer, take care of subscriptions, let me know how many, allow folks to subscribe through email or through other ways, and I don’t have to mess with it and that’s what I want. No mess. Plus I can add my podcast later the same way (yes, I’m toying with the idea and have been for some time).
If you are still scratching your head, go to my blog, click on the little orange links on the sidebar and gaze upon the loveliness you will see. And read more about it at Feed 101 (link below). Trust me, all this will make much sense to you after a little while. If I can understand it, you can. I am sure of it. Yep, I am.
google.com/support/feedburner/bin/answer.py?answer=79408
And now I shall leave you alone so you can get some writing done. And I shall follow your example and get down to business now too.
Oh, and feel free to delete these comments after you’ve read ‘em. Or before you read ‘em if you just don’t really care about such things. I’m fine with that.
Neat! thanks for the info. I think I get it now. Not really sure how to make my links pretty like yours though.
Wow J.W.,
I am impressed with your site. I can’t wait till I have more time to read your stuff.
Thanks for stopping by, Steph! Let me know what you think.
“Aploogetics”? What is that, exactly? Are you apologizing for all the terrible things that have transpired under the guise of Christian ficion? Is there a faculty of Religious Aplogetics where you apologize for all the organized religions of the world and the horrible atrocities that are undertaken under their fictitious scrawlings?
No, apologetics is the “defense of the faith,” in layman’s terms. It involves defending (here Christianity) from attacks, like this one. I’ll allow the comments to stand, but in the future, I would prefer a more mature level of conversation rather than a string of ad hominem attacks.
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