Alzheimer’s disease,
Charles Thaxton,
Christian Worldview,
Country Inn & Suites,
Dallas,
Discovery Institute Dallas,
Discovery Institute Press,
Foundation for Thought and Ethics,
Intelligent Design,
Kitzmiller v. Dover,
Linda Buell,
Linda Montgomery,
materialist biology,
Never Before in History,
Of Pandas and People,
origin of life,
Pam Bailey,
Phillip E. Johnson,
relativistic ethics,
revisionist historicism,
Roger Olsen,
Sex and Character,
The Design of Life,
The Mystery of Life’s Origin,
Walter Bradley
I learned with sadness this week that my good friend and colleague Jon Buell passed away on Saturday, March 14. I had been Jon’s academic editor for the Foundation for Thought and Ethics (FTE), a Dallas publisher of books aimed at un-indoctrinating high school and college students. He hired me in 1997 and I stayed on in that position until my family’s move from Texas to Iowa in 2012. We didn’t produce a lot of books at FTE, but it was quality work and it articulated without apology a broadly Christian worldview against a materialist biology, a relativist ethics, and a revisionist historicism. In short, FTE served as an antidote to the PC and progressivist culture. Given how this culture has unfolded and seemingly prospered since FTE’s founding by Jon…