Douglas Groothuis

By Douglas Groothuis, PhD Since we moved to Michigan in June of 2024, I have had much time to write, especially to write books. Where I live in Lowell is quiet and lonely. I don’t have the group of friends and knowledge of culture that thirty-one years in Denver gave me. So, I hunker down and pound the keyboard. (Some of my keyboards needed replacement letters for some keys, sin...

By Douglas Groothuis, PhD I have been reading and listening to Sue Prideaux’s superbly written and fascinating biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, I am Dynamite (Tim Duggan Books, 2018). It has the drama of a novel and the analysis of a philosopher, although she fails to criticize Nietzsche’s worldview or attack on Christianity. Instead of offering a thorough review of this book, ...

By Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D., Cornerstone University and Cornerstone Theological Seminary How should a Christian understand gambling? Gambling is an activity in which someone puts up money, goods, or services on the chance of being rewarded by unknown outcomes by the gambler. I do not mean the investment of money, goods, services. By “chance,” I mean unknown outcomes not determin...