A recent post by Christopher Benson on the Sunday of Orthodoxy in which he mused about the anathematising of the iconoclasts ... and what that says about him as a non-icon worshipping Christian. I’m not going to essay and defence of icons, the Lossky/Ousspensky book (The Meaning of Icons) is . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank Turk at Evangel is doing a short series on theodicy. I asked him how/when he would connect his discussion with Job and got the following response.Job is where everyone goes. I think the Scripture pretty much screams out from about every third page an answer which we don’t need Job to . . . . Continue Reading »
It is stunning to me that President Obama would yet again try to push the popularly rejected Obamacare plan through Congress. Apparently, his new proposal is more of the same, leaning more toward the Senate version than the House, e.g. no public option. The tax on “Cadillac” . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a follow-up of sorts to Joshua Sowin’s Why I’m Not a Creationist (Anymore). For the purpose of consistency with his post, I will also use the term creationist to refer to YEC (young earth creationism – 6ky to 10ky earth aging).But as much and as easy as it is for many . . . . Continue Reading »
I went down to NYU law school today to visit my friend Joseph Weiler —you are all coming to the Eramus Lecture he’s delivering on March 7th, aren’t you? Anyway, while I was there I saw posters for a lecture this afternoon by Eugene Volokh on the structure of slippery-slope . . . . Continue Reading »
From John Knight:God does not fit into easy categories because only God is free and righteous and just and holy – all in infinite proportions. When he says he creates some who are disabled, he is speaking and acting out of his infinite depths of knowledge and righteousness, not our . . . . Continue Reading »
A temple complex in Turkey —older than both Stonehenge and the Pyramids—may overturn many of the assumptions of modern archeology and anthropology: Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist [Klaus Schmidt] waves a hand over his . . . . Continue Reading »
BTW, I’m telling you this story because this is one of the stories God tells us in His book about what kind of universe he’s running here — and the atheist needs at least to listen to the story even if he’s not willing to buy the whole thing from start to finish. Continue Reading »
First Things senior editor David Goldman has an article in the Tablet about a private, subscription-based CIA : How would you like to tap into an exclusive private intelligence service staffed by ex-CIA analysts who glean exclusive information from shadowy sources, cross-grid raw intel to detect . . . . Continue Reading »
As you can see by reading THE REBEL YELL , I will be speaking on Alexis at UNLV tomorrow night. I won’t be going as far as Paul Cantor in saying that Tocqueville predicted Vegas, because he didn’t begin to appreciate the opulent and extravagant contribution our Italian and Jewish . . . . Continue Reading »
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