Hunter Baker, evangelical economist (with a new Crossway book coming out soon), made some helpful points in this little blog article. His main point is that conservatives shouldn't be so pro-capitalist that they overlook the effects of the Fall in the market. Here's...
Mark Ward
R. C. Trench Vs. Lexicographical Prescriptivism (i.e., CONTROVERSY!)
I've finally gotten to a book I've had on my mental list ever since Dr. Randy Leedy, my Advanced Greek Grammar teacher, recommended it to his class some years ago: Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography. Sidney Landau is so far weaving a fascinating account...
Get a Free ESV for your iPod Touch
If you have an iPod Touch, you can now get the ESV on it for free by following these steps: 1. Set up a Kindle account. 2. "Buy" the ESV for $0.00 (thanks, Crossway!). 3. Get the Kindle app in the iTunes store (thanks, Amazon!). 4. Read away! You can sync your...
Fish on Faith and Finance
Always provocative. Stanley Fish. ...in another popular Christian discourse, there is no way out of debt, and bankruptcy is the condition we are in from the moment of birth. This is a Calvinist discourse in which the language of money is allegorized. The debt we owe...
FIRST THINGS: On the Square » Blog Archive » Just Give It Up
First Things will never be the same without Richard Neuhaus. His proto-blog at the end of every issue provided great insight—and, admittedly, some juicy quotes about Catholic doctrine for those of us who still oppose it. But here's an excerpt from a recent First...
New CSS
You complained. I answered. Thanks, old friend miahz, for updating my style sheet! Now links are much more easily distinguished from regular text, and a few other colors look better, too.
The Kindle Has Arrived—Carrying Technopolistic Questions!
My Kindle arrived today! It's very cool. I hope to liberate a lot of texts on my hard drive that I'm not reading. But I've been reading Neil Postman's Technopoly , and these lines struck me: "Every technology is both a burden and a blessing…. Technology giveth and...
Luther Turns Over in His Grave Again (He’s Been Practically Spinning for Decades, Really)
I saved this when it came out last week and just got around to reading it. I highly recommend you take a look! In recent months, dioceses around the world have been offering Catholics a spiritual benefit that fell out of favor decades ago—the indulgence, a sort of...
Don’t Miss the Mess!
Thanks to Phil Gons for an enriching discussion about Lexicographical Prescriptivism. I encourage others to check it out! Phil always made any class we took together much better by his trenchant questions. Let me remind everyone, too, that I believe this little topic...
Please Peruse this Post-Post
Note to a recent commenter on the issue of Lexicographical Prescriptivism: I don't think we can limit our usage surveys to “educated people.” That's a slippery category. I could, however, add that usage should ideally be “unselfconscious”: as soon as you ask people a...