House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was interviewed in a recent edition of Newsweek , in which she had the opportunity to set the bishops straight on the participation of Catholics in public life. I think you have had some brushes with [church] hierarchy. I have some concerns about the church’s . . . . Continue Reading »
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, the Princeton-bound Midwestern striver Amory Blaine says, “I don’t know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes.” Thinking this was a . . . . Continue Reading »
Similar to Hunter , who was surprised to find that Avatar was more than a “left-wing, pantheistic film,” my favorite localist apologist, Caleb Stegall , found something to appreciate in the recent blockbuster: It is curious to me that this movie has so obviously touched a raw nerve and . . . . Continue Reading »
A long time ago a very wise man said to me, a newby to the field of apologetics, “you need to ground your apologetics in your theology, not your theology in apologetics.” The point he was making relates to that unresolved debate between presuppositionalism and evidentialism/classical . . . . Continue Reading »
Over the Christmas holiday lull, I saw one commenter support Obamacare on the purely utilitarian grounds that the government should do that which benefits the most people. I almost spit out my eggnog. Obamacare will actually harm most people to benefit the minority by reducing the level . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on the Evangel blog, Nathan Martin has an interview with author and social critic Os Guinness : When was the first time you heard the term “Evangelical”? It is deeply written into the tradition of our family. My great great grandfather, who founded the Guinness Brewing Company, was . . . . Continue Reading »
In a recent post, Nathan Martin shared some interesting observations by Os Guinness about the state of Evangelicalism. It is a thought-provoking post. It made me realize that for all the years I’ve been reading about, and studying, Evangelicalism, self-understanding and self-definition remain, . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Steyn makes an interesting observation about the cultural “bilingualism”: Years ago, apropos a Spanish-language payphone in Vermont, I said I couldn’t understand why any country would voluntarily become bilingual. If you happen to find yourself in one for historic reasons, . . . . Continue Reading »
There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. — Victor Borge Comedians aren’t often known for their critical thinking skills and Mr. Spock —the Vulcan embodiment of cool logic—wasn’t known for his jokes. So at first glance it might . . . . Continue Reading »
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?Psalm 8:3-4HT: Ron . . . . Continue Reading »
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