Joe Carter

In Jasper Fforde’s charming alternate history The Eyre Affair , England in the 1980s is a place where hardcore literature fans change their name to John Milton, roving gangs of surrealists rumble with French impressionists, and “Baconians” go door-to-door like Jehovah . . . . Continue Reading »

Since devoutly religious Jews are restricted when surfing the web (they may stumble across sexually explicit material), an Israeli company has developed a new kosher search engine for Hebrew-speaking Orthodox Jews. Koogle —a play on the name of a Jewish noodle pudding dish, known as kugel, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Cutting back on greenhouse gases isn’t enough anymore to stop global warming, says Jamais Cascio in the Wall Street Journal . He believes the only solution is to “think about cooling the planet” by using geoengineering. [W]hat geoengineering can do is slow the increase in . . . . Continue Reading »

The former Liberian warlord-dictator Charles Taylor famously has a “have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too” mentality (he once used the campaign slogan , “He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him.”). His latest life-changing decision shows that he really hates to . . . . Continue Reading »

Doubts about the legitimacy of Friday’s election results in Iran has lead to clashes in the streets between riot police and hundreds of protesters. Gary Sick has more on what may be a political coup by incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, including this fascinating timeline of events: On . . . . Continue Reading »

Following up on my post about Baptists leaders calling for church-goers to have more children, Craig Carter provides a list of six reasons Christians should have large families : 1. God has never rescinded his command to “be fruitful and multiply.” 2. There are numerous passages in the OT . . . . Continue Reading »

We Southern Baptists tried that for awhile, Nathaniel , but it didn’t work out so well. Turns out that if you baptize a Baptist baby it just makes them cranky, wet, and Lutheran. . . . . Continue Reading »

Southern Baptist leader Daniel Akin is concerned about declining baptism totals, a benchmark used by the denomination to gauge the effectiveness of missions and evangelism. To fix the problem he proposes that the denomination focus on ten “commitments” including committing to biblically . . . . Continue Reading »

In his post Stephen contends that I may be trapped in a false dilemma: the choice between believing that certain processes are random or believing that they are directed by God. I don’t believe I presented such a false dilemma because I don’t believe such a false choice exist. In fact, . . . . Continue Reading »

To my surprise (and to their credit) the Washington Post has given a platform to John West, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, to discuss why ” Darwin’s theory poses such a challenge to faith “: The real sticking point is Darwin’s claim that all of life—human . . . . Continue Reading »