Courtesy of our friends at Netflix, who are frequently mentioned on this site and consequently should be advertising here, the wife and I watched Bruce Willis’s movie, Surrogates. It’s a good movie with a decent though predictable plot, a few veteran actors provide a little panache, a . . . . Continue Reading »
Satan. A word which the LXX and translators of the Masoretic Old Testament chose different methods. A translator has two different choices when dealing with a proper name or title. Transliteration or translation ... that is make the word sound the same, or literally translate the meaning of the . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Doug Wilson has a great post today about American Exceptionalism. Here’s a piece of it:If anyone could believe in exceptionalism, and have actual verses to point to, it would have been the Hebrews. And yet note that God warns them of this pattern, which is as old as dirt. He included . . . . Continue Reading »
A new report delivered to the Obama administration claims that American foreign policy is hindered by its secularism and needs to factor religious issues into its dealings with other countries: American foreign policy is handicapped by a narrow, ill-informed and “uncompromising Western . . . . Continue Reading »
Having read the recent posts on creation and the age of the earth, I cannot but wonder whether the debate is finally an empty one. I would not stake my reputation on it, but I wonder whether the following might offer a way of getting beyond it. Could it be that God created, simultaneously and ex . . . . Continue Reading »
Joseph Bottum on anti-Catholicism in French thought : There remains to this day a snarl in French conservative thought, where all sorts of threads are knotted together: nationalists tangled up with anti-Semites, monarchists, anti-Dreyfusards, Lefebverists, and those aging colonialists who long to . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists are apparently getting ready to try and explain the lull in global warming over the last decade-+. From the story:Climate scientists must do more to work out how exceptionally cold winters or a dip in world temperatures fit their theories of global warming, if they are to persuade an . . . . Continue Reading »
The last time we mentioned that if Joseph had never been sold into slavery, he would have never been in a position to become what he became.And the wily atheist — the one who admits, btw, that even he might be willing to suffer for the sake of something, like being part of the 60 million who . . . . Continue Reading »
Martin Amis and Anna Ford are “having a go of it,” as they say. It all started with Amis’s complaint in The Guardian that newspapers make him out to be more controversial than he is . Ford, a longtime friend, responds with an open letter accusing him of narcissism and an . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Guardian , Toby Lichtig reveals how he is held hostage by the books he begins : Are you a non-finisher? A literary tease who picks up books on street corners and then discards them on page 45 without so much as a follow-up text? Are your shelves a sea of protruding bookmarks? Alan . . . . Continue Reading »
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