Are We Getting Smarter?

By Elizabeth Abbott Traditionally, knowledge was gained over time by experiment, experience, or education. Today, knowledge is just a tap or a click away. If we have a question about anything in the world, omniscient Google is there with an answer. But does having so much knowledge at our fingertips really make us smarter than …

Refuge Here

By Karissa Langan If I fully explained the last six months of my life, it would take much more than one article. One summary of three months overseas can never do justice to all that I have learned, seen and experienced. I do want to give a little explanation to those who do not know …

Expert Advice for Newlyweds From a 1-Year Marriage Pro.

One of the most challenging seasons of a person’s life is being a newlywed. Beautiful, exciting, surprising, and yes: Very, very challenging. A year and a half ago, when Joy (my wife) and I were almost married but still had a few weeks to go, I thought I knew what to expect. My philosophy at …

Dangerous Freedom: The American Traditions of Self-Defense and Guns

“I prefer dangerous freedom to peaceful servitude.” - Thomas Jefferson John Pitcairn had a problem. At 5:00 AM on a spring day his column of Regulars filed into Lexington and halted. Through morning fog, he caught fleeting glimpses of shapes moving and hurrying across the town green. He could hear the muffled voices, and he …

The Wolf in Grizzly’s Clothing – Christians and Homosexuality

What effect would a wolf have if he dressed as a bear? He would present himself far more frightening a threat than he truly was, terrifying the local populace much more than he would were he to show himself in his natural skin. This does not mean, however, that a wolf presents no threat to …

Taxes, Partiality, and Christian Dominion

What is our attitude toward justice in our system of government? Is this something we are concerned about as Christians?

“Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together”

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” - Isaiah 1:8 God is a God of order. As I read the first chapter of Isaiah, the manner in which …

Why We are Here

At Cogitare, we believe that to think is a God-given gift, and that nobody should use that gift lightly. Too often, we rely on what others have thought about already. It is easy to accept what we have always assumed was true without ever verifying the truth behind our assumptions. We would like to challenge …