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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Rage Against the Machine

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Leftist terrorist groups are evidently experiencing a rebirth of sorts in Europe. Most of the terror organizations of the 1970s had died out...

Reclaiming the Culture

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In 1951 H. Richard Niebuhr wrote his classic Christ and Culture in which he argued that the faithful have throughout history adopted five d...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Everything

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I'm told this video has been around for a while, but a student just passed it on to me this week. It packs a lot of meaning into five mi...

Sudden Conversion

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Robin is a psychotherapist in Berkeley, California who is a converted leftist. In this piece she describes the suddenness of her awakening:...

Intelligent Design and Theistic Evolution

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Those looking for a concise discussion of the differences between Theistic Evolution (TE) and Intelligent Design (ID) will find a post by Th...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Double Whammy

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Shawn Tulley, a senior editor at Fortune magazine, narrates the following tale: A week ago, a good friend -- let's call him Anthony ...

Badgering Barney

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Via Hot Air , Jason Mattera goes after Massachussetts congressman Barney Frank. Mattera, who has written a book titled Obama Zombies: How th...
Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Co-Option

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Well, I'm not sure, given the etymology of "tea-bagger" (this is a family blog so don't ask me if you don't know) that...

Antony Flew (1923-2010)

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Philosopher Antony Flew was perhaps the most prominent and accomplished atheistic thinker of the latter half of the twentieth century. He su...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Against All Odds

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Casey Luskin at Evolution News and Views has a video of Roger Penrose, one of the most accomplished theoretical physicists of our time givi...

Whatever Happened to Truth?

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Some years ago a book about the post-modern subjectivization of truth titled Whatever Happened to Truth? was published. I thought of that t...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Winners and Losers

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In the brave new world of the coming decade things look bright for the 47% of Americans who pay no income tax. Like candidate Obama said, ev...

The Art of Compromise

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From time to time the complaint is aired that conservatives have been too unwilling to compromise with the Obama administration on policy, m...

Does God Torment the Innocent?

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Philosopher of religion Alexander Pruss constructs an imaginary dialogue at Prosblogion between "Ari" and "Cal" on the ...
Saturday, April 10, 2010

Metaethics

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In the course of a critique of the Sam Harris TED video about which we posted the other day, atheist philosopher Massimo Pigliucci of the C...

Feedback

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There are some thoughtful reader responses to recent posts on our Feedback Page. Please check them out. RLC
Friday, April 9, 2010

How You Can Tell If You're an RBH

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Jim Wallis at God's Politics blog grieves the regrettable nastiness of our current political rhetoric and offers readers a chance to s...

Rod Dreher on Bruce Waltke

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Rod Dreher at BeliefNet has an interesting post on the case of Bruce Waltke a theologian at Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando who has r...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

Intellectual Hares and Tortoises

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Have you ever been in the presence of someone really smart whose mental agility and power were so impressive that it made you feel, well, ho...

Coal vs. Nukes

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The West Virginia coal mine accident is a terrible tragedy, but for those of us not directly touched by the loss of life it might not be ins...