Daniel E. Johnson

Daniel E. Johnson has devoted much of his adult life to thinking about—and researching—a topic at the intersection of faith, reason, and culture that has always fascinated him: how men and women relate to each other. The result is his book "Disposable: When Dating Is Not Loving Your Neighbor," which explains the dominant dating culture and how it falls short of God's ideal. He found that culture to be based on selfishness, in contrast to God's call to love our neighbor, which should involve friendship.

Even as a young adult, he didn't like the way people treated each other when they dated—and so he was loath to participate, feeling like an outsider. After becoming a Christian in college, his concerns were only heightened as he contrasted certain norms in the dating world with the behavior that God expects from us. In college he got to know groups of Christians who recognized the importance of friendship to both same-gender and inter-gender relationships, which made a lasting impression on him. After college he continued to think about dating, read what others had to say, and engage in discussions with both men and women, in an effort to understand it from different perspectives—religious, cultural, historical, and psychological, all of which are reflected in his book "Disposable."

He studied math and physics at the University of Virginia and earned a PhD in physics from the University of Illinois. After that he served as an officer in the US Air Force and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg in Germany before transitioning into the legal field. The rigorous analytical skills he acquired in the course of his academic studies and professional work were put to good use when analyzing the cultural scene and offering ways to respond to it.

He is a scientist by profession and a philosopher at heart. For him, faith and reason are complementary, not contradictory. He believes they allow us to think about things from different perspectives, to explore the world of ideas, and to arrive at deeper understanding, thereby impacting the culture. He currently works in Silicon Valley (California), where he is the happy husband of one wife and the proud father of their son.

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