I derived some real profit from this James K. A. Smith editorial and the entire issue of Comment in which it appeared. Read the issue on a single flight; very convenient. I'm not quite on Smith's theological page—I've not read enough to discern exactly what page he's...
Culture
Fish on Academic Freedom
I call in thinkers like C. S. Lewis and Stanley Fish when I need some incision—when I need someone to help me cut through the rhetoric, to help me get down to those little tacks made of a copper-zinc alloy. Those little things are, it seems, always there. Issues...
James K. A. Smith on CCM
While doing a little Internet poking around on James K. A. Smith, I stumbled across this choice quotation from the pleistocine era of the blogosphere (namely about eight months ago). Sorry I missed it: Trevin Wax: How would you respond to the person who says the forms...
A Good Intro to the Neo-Calvinism vs. Two Kingdoms Debate
From an excellent, brief article on Neo-Calvinism vs. Two Kingdoms theology by David Koyzis: From my readings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, John Rawls and many other professed liberals, I have come to conclude that liberalism must be understood in terms of its...
WallBuilders and Media Ecology
I met an interesting, globe-trotting conservative Pentecostal technology wonk at a conference I recently attended. A sharp guy who has done significant thinking and speaking about the problems created in our brains by the overuse and misuse of technology,...
Rational Wiki Summarizes My Stanley Fish Paper
The skeptics and freethinkers over at Rational Wiki have done me the kindness of offering a one-line summary/review of my article on Stanley Fish's presuppositionalism. It was part of a list of many other of their summaries of articles in Answers in Genesis' Answers...
I’m Stuck
Henry Hazlitt (Economics in One Lesson) convinced me that protectionist policies are, in the long run, worse for everyone. Whether it be high tariffs or the (fictitious?) actions of Ned Ludd, protectionism is short-sighted because it fails to recognize that...
David Bentley Hart
David Bentley Hart with some wise words on the story of our times: The late modern picture of reality is, culturally speaking, something altogether unprecedented. In the days of, say, Thomas Aquinas, there was no particularly cogent alternative to seeing nature as a...
Vote for Me!
Will you vote for my comment at the New York Times? I'm trying to practice what I preach, to use Stanley Fish's anti-liberalism as an opportunity for gospel proclamation—or at least emperor-nakedness proclamation.
Kevin Bauder, Not Exactly a Doomsday Prophet, On the Coming Dark Age
We have been living in the daylight—that is, in a civilization that has been shaped largely by biblical perspectives and norms. We are about to plunge into the night. We are at the door of a Dark Age.... Christians must not view themselves as Moses, leading a nation...
C.S. Lewis on the Myth of Scientism
Those who accept theology are not necessarily being guided by taste rather than reason. The picture so often painted of Christians huddling together on an ever narrower strip of beach while the incoming tide of "Science" mounts higher and higher corresponds to nothing...
A Vision of the Good
One of the reasons Harvard prof Michael Sandel's book Justice was the most memorable book I read last year—and the biggest reason I highly recommend it—is that it makes one excessively important point: you can't not have a vision of the good. You read that right. It's...