Dr Paul Allen

In 1976, Carl F.H. Henry published God, Revelation, and Authority, one of the most significant works of theology in the twentieth century. Five years later, Gordon Clark released A Christian View of Men and Things. In the same tradition, David Noebel’s magisterial Understanding the Times covered 10 different areas to which a worldview speaks, from theology and philosophy to economics, ethics, sociology, and history. And all on his own, the late Christian philosopher Ron Nash covered almost every other conceivable topic from a Christian worldview.   Missing in the long line of Christian worldview books is one that would have been especially helpful last week when the Pentagon released a slew of documents, some of which were formerly classified.  The Christian view of UFOs, Aliens, and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (or UAP) remains to be written. NPR described this move by the Trump administration, “In all, the Pentagon released more than 160 records, citing President Tr...

 “UFOs are real; they’re even talked about in the Bible!” Those words blew my thirteen-year-old mind when I heard them from my friend Jason. He and I would sometimes discuss many of the religious topics of concern to science-fiction-loving thirteen-year-old boys—you know, aliens, space travel, and so forth. Although I had attended church and Sunday school regularly since I was about seven, I had never heard this about UFOs before.  And where did Jason find accounts of humanity’s encounter with UFOs? In the book of Ezekiel, of course. After all, what else could explain the four-faced creatures and the eye-covered wheels within wheels that the prophet sees in the opening chapters of the book of Ezekiel? More than three decades have now passed since that eighth-grade conversation. If I ever really believed that Ezekiel saw UFOs, I don’t any longer. But that hasn’t stopped many others, often people outside the church, from posting on webpages and writing books about Ezekiel’s enco...