The blogosphere has rightly settled down from the fevered discussions on universalism occasioned earlier this year by, among other things, Rob Bell’s writings. However, distance has its advantages. In this case, the fact that universalism (or threats of it) is not quite the hot topic among . . . . Continue Reading »
David Berlinski has some useful advice for college students : I would suggest to any student . . do what I’m sure he hasn’t done: Go read the Old Testament. That should be your first challenge . . . .The Old Testament is the greatest repository of human knowledge and wisdom in the . . . . Continue Reading »
If they weren’t trying to destroy the economy of the world, keep destitute countries mired in poverty, undermine national sovereignty, and misusing science as a club to promote favored political policies, I might have some sympathy for all of the failed hysteria. You know what I mean, . . . . Continue Reading »
Liechtenstein rejects plan to legalize abortion Associated Press Mark Noll on the Foundation of the Evangelical Mind Christianity Today , Interview by David Neff If There Must Be Trouble, Let it Be in My Day DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed , Kevin DeYoung Keynesianism, Social Services, and Solvency . . . . Continue Reading »
Maureen Dowd resurrects an old meme in her most recent NYT column : The Republicans are now the “How great is it to be stupid?” party. In perpetrating the idea that there’s no intellectual requirement for the office of the presidency, the right wing of the party offers a Farrelly . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Licona is a highly respected Christian apologist, and the author of the massively researched The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach. He has come under intense fire from two other estimable scholars, Norman Geisler and Albert Mohler, for what they consider to be dangerous . . . . Continue Reading »
The answer to the question posed by the Headline: They all threaten to empower, in the words of President Dwight Eisenhower, a “scientific-technological elite.” Here’s the quote, via The Volokh Conspiracy blog:The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by . . . . Continue Reading »
I am still steamed at Pat Robertson’s blessing of abandoning a spouse with Alzheimer’s and moving on with life, so long as custodial care is provided, lamely excused by his claiming that Alzheimer’s is a “walking death,” and that such patients, “are gone, . . . . Continue Reading »
Something must be done. Dolphins are killing porpoises in Monterey Bay! From the San Francisco Chronicle story:The harbor porpoise that washed ashore last month at San Francisco’s Fort Funston was clearly a victim of foul play. It had two badly broken jawbones, fractured ribs on . . . . Continue Reading »
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