About Convergent Views
Convergent Views traces recurring patterns across nature, design, history, and human life—asking what gives them coherence, purpose, and life, and what their convergence might point toward. The project is shaped by a Christian point of view and by the conviction that honest inquiry—whether it begins in reason, creation, history, or human experience—can lead us beyond ourselves, toward the Creator who gives meaning, purpose, and love their reality.
Here you will find interactive arguments, historical sources, visual comparisons, and personal video essays. The site is an independent project exploring how careful reasoning, software, and visual design can make complex philosophical and historical material easier to understand and assess.
Why this project exists
Convergent Views is created and maintained by Bryan Fricke.
My perspective
I confess Jesus Christ as Lord. That is the worldview I bring to this project. I believe Christian faith can withstand honest inquiry, and I want to examine evidence on its merits, including where it challenges my understanding or an argument I have found persuasive.
Careful reasoning and evidence have played an important part in my own journey of faith. The work of Gary Habermas, Michael Licona, and William Lane Craig helped renew my confidence in pursuing these questions. Convergent Views brings that interest together with my appreciation for thoughtful visual expression, inviting readers to examine the arguments and sources for themselves.
Why “Convergent Views”?
Work in computer science and management led me to Agile practices, Christopher Alexander’s account of patterns and living structure, and Russell Ackoff’s writing about democratic organizations, purpose, and multidimensional systems. Living in and learning about a Craftsman house led me further into Arts and Crafts thought, including John Ruskin and William Morris. Across these different settings, I kept encountering a related intuition: systems become more humane and alive when they attend to the grain of reality, while creation detached from those patterns tends toward sterility.
Those paths raised recurring questions. What is the source of life and order? Are purpose and agency real, even when another level of description looks deterministic? Why do good forms seem discovered as much as invented? Philosophy, history, design, technology, literature, and art did not give identical answers, but they repeatedly pointed in the same direction.
That recurring pattern gives the project its name. The site gathers work that has grown from those convergences: arguments and historical sources, along with reflections on technology, design, and what it means to create. It is a selective, evolving project rather than a comprehensive treatment of any one field.
My background
My professional background is in computer science, user experience, and data visualization. I hold a Master of Computer Science from North Carolina State University and a UX Certificate from Nielsen Norman Group. I’ve also completed a Christian Apologetics Certificate through Biola University and coursework in web accessibility. I bring that combination of technical experience, design practice, and ongoing study to Convergent Views.
Sources & Acknowledgments
This project is especially indebted to Michael R. Licona, Gary R. Habermas, and William Lane Craig. Their work provides much of the foundation for the arguments and historical approaches explored here.
Michael R. Licona & Gary R. Habermas
The minimal-facts presentation draws on their The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (2004). Licona’s work also informs the project’s attention to historical methodology and the background assumptions that shape an assessment. His doctoral dissertation is a source for that methodological work.
William Lane Craig
The theistic-argument maps draw on Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics (2008). His comparative discussions of resurrection explanations also inform the hypothesis chart. Relevant essays and resources are available through Reasonable Faith.
The hypothesis chart’s Low, Medium, and High ratings are the site’s editorial mapping of Craig’s comparative language. They are not a numerical scoring table published by Craig. The chart’s help explains the interpretation and background settings.
C. Behan McCullagh & other sources
The hypothesis comparison uses explanatory criteria drawn from McCullagh’s work, as discussed in the scholarship informing this project. Additional authors, historical sources, and competing positions are identified within the relevant tools.
The interactive representations and editorial adaptations are my responsibility. These acknowledgments do not imply the authors’ involvement in or endorsement of Convergent Views.
AI assistance
I use AI tools, including large language models, to assist with developing text and code for this site. Responsibility for the content, presentation, and any errors remains mine.
Contact & corrections
For questions, feedback, or corrections, email me at parallaxviewsmedia@gmail.com. If you get in touch about a correction, please include the relevant page or claim and, where possible, a supporting source or passage.