If you want to watch a ten-minute video clip reminding you not to waste your life watching video clips, watch this video about Bhutan (warning: there are a few brief objectionable elements because they show American TV). It’s old news, but still relevant. Bhutan was...
Mark Ward
Great Quip
I read a little comment recently that the watchdog group Freedom From Religion is "like a fish starting Freedom From Water." To stretch the simile a bit and take it in a direction probably unintended by the original author, fish don't just live in an environment full...
Ultimate
A little shout-out for my favorite sport: Ultimate was #1 on Sportscenter's top 10 plays today! Check it out!
Dissertation Progress
I have added two tickers to my widgets. Don’t we all? Check them out beneath my Feedburner count widget on the right side of the home page, and pray for me if you would. I want my dissertation to be a benefit, however small, to the church. At least my own.
Fish on Liberalism Again
Stanley Fish, in Why We Can't All Just Get Along If you persuade liberalism that its dismissive marginalizing of religious discourse is a violation of its own chief principle, all you will gain is the right to sit down at liberalism's table where before you were...
Religion vs. Liberal Democracy
“Liberalism very much wants to believe that it is being fair to religion, but what it calls fairness amounts to cutting religion down to liberal size.” . . . . “The conflict between the liberal state, with its devotion to procedural rather than substantive norms, and...
True
“Apart from God, one can pursue truth and beauty, but at some point, one must cross the bridge to the Faith to complete the journey.” —My old boss, summarizing a theologian I cannot remember
One More Excerpt from Alan Jacobs’ Latest Book
Jonathan Swift, Jacobs says, looked for “some method . . . for ascertaining and fixing our language for ever.” Jacobs comments: This is a recurrent theme among linguistic academicians and their allies: a deep conviction that the dominant usage of their own time—or,...
Special Post for BJU Press Employees
I have a few readers at BJU Press. I encourage you, especially, to process all four posts in my Bible Integration series. I feel safe doing so because the core levels material is not original with me (though anything extra is not necessarily endorsed by the Press) but...
Alan Jacobs: BBEdit Freak, Essay Master
I keep insisting to my wife that I’m not a real reader. I play at it. I pretend by force of will to be a reader. I wanna be one when I grow up. That’s all. But there are those writers who turn me into a reader by their force of will, their skill and verve and depth....