Merold Westphal on hermeneutics and relativism: We are easily frightened by the specter of "anything goes," and there is no shortage of those willing to play on this fear in order to imply their own absoluteness. But there are three good reasons to resist this fear:...
This is What We Pay Andrée Seu For
Excellent, from Andrée Seu Peterson: Sometimes I wonder if the inventors of the other LGBT brand are a tad embarrassed. They keep having to add new letters to their acronym, and the more they tack on the weaker their case looks. In simpler days when it was merely an...
Most Popular Bible Verses by Country
YouVersion tells us that these are the most popular Bible verses by country: I feel guilty for complaining about people's choice of Bible verses... But not so guilty that I'll stop yet. You may guess, as I did, what people are looking to these verses to do. Listen to...
A Little Internet Wisdom
So true, from a CT movie reviewer: The trick to writing on the Internet and getting heard is making a very loud, very extreme argument. The Internet does not reward nuanced takes or people who wait a week and a half to think something through, and the...
If You Can’t Say Anything Nice About Contemporary English, Don’t Say Anything At All
When it comes to our common tongue, says Ammon Shea, “there are two things that have remained constant. The English language continues to change and a large number of people wish that it would not” (Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation, x). You know those...
Evangelical Atheism
Two posts for the price of one: 1. This is an absolutely fantastic, must-read article by non-evangelical atheist John Gray. It’s probably just as well that the current generation of atheists seems to know so little of the longer history of atheist movements. When they...
Harm, Consent, and Fifty Shades of Sexual Liberation
Why I can't help but read Doug Wilson, writing on Fifty Shades of Grey: If you create a world defined by the excitement of breaking taboos, then how is an insistence upon "mutual agreement" anything but the creation of the final taboo? Secular moral philosopher...
Wise Anecdote
A conservative describes his experience with radical secularist liberalism as a student at Harvard: In the intolerance, I also saw hope. During one particularly memorable day, when radicals started shrieking when I questioned why our professor referred to an unborn...
Cutting Both Ways
One big thing I like about presuppositionalism is that it gives me these special gloves—gauntlets, I guess—that I can use in one of two ways. I can throw them down, of course. But I can also catch swords when they're swung at me. I catch the sword, pull it out of my...
Human Rights and Responsibilities
I thought this was really insightful: The latter—the teaching of natural law and natural rights—is the view from the American founding. We may take our bearings from the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which speaks of “the Laws of Nature and of...