Looking After Schools: Who Supports the Needs of Children and Parental Rights?
Touchstone Magazine (April 2009)
In his “Charter of the Rights of the Family,” John Paul II plainly lays out the role of the state in educating our children, "Parents have the right to freely choose schools or other means necessary to educate their children in keeping with their convictions. Public authorities must ensure that public subsidies are so allocated that parents are truly free to exercise this right without incurring unjust burdens. Parents should not have to sustain, directly or indirectly, extra charges which would deny or unjustly limit the exercise of this freedom."

God, Freedom, and Evil
The existence of evil and suffering presents one of the largest obstacles to belief in God--for both the theist and the atheist alike. The incalculable amount of human suffering and pain has led many to conclude that it is unbelievable that there is an all-powerful and all-loving God who would allow such misery and pain. In this paper I will present the problem of evil in its two most popular forms, the logical and external problems, show how the problems may be satisfactorily answered, and then show how the existence of evil rather than being a defeater for belief may be used as a pointer to the existence of God.

Faith and Rationality: A Defense of Plantinga's Reformed Epistemology
Belief in God is the heart of the Christian religion - as it is of Judaism and Islam. The field of religious epistemology studies the nature of theistic beliefs. This essay is concerned with two interrelated questions from this field. First, what criteria must be met for belief in God to be warranted? Second, can Christian theism provide a plausible model under which these criteria are met?