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...
Culture
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...
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...
I Spy
Find the Russian spy on this page. I am using invisible e-ink to write half of this blog post.
Religious Liberty
The Supreme Court recently voted 5–4 to keep a Christian campus group at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco from barring non-Christians from their group, homosexuals specifically. I’m decidedly against alarmism, but I believe this is quite a serious matter....
Radio Carbon Dating vs. Radio Carbon Courtship
From an advice column at CNN.com: I have been dating my boyfriend for about three months. We get along great and he would do anything for me. We just have one problem. He doesn't believe in evolution and I very passionately do. We got in a discussion about it, which...
Narnia Story 3
Before the first Narnia film came out, I was very skeptical. I simply did not believe that non-Christians would get it right. Narnia is suffused with a Spirit they do not know. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe managed to exceed my low expectations, but it still...
Count the Biblical Allusions in This Sentence
From a Chronicle of Higher Education article on the future of libraries now that Google Books is here: As someone with experience in print and electronic publishing, Darnton is seeking "common ground" between the Luddite jeremiad and come-to-Jesus...
Soccerball
Opinionator at NYT: Soccer is "a game that teaches you that life is unfair. Because goals are so scarce, it is possible for a team to be outplayed for 89 minutes and yet still score one fluke goal and win the game. Superior performance often does not translate into...
Beautiful Father’s Day Article for My First Father’s Day
Read it; it’s about a father who went to war—World War II—and was deeply affected by it. I just read Stalingrad on my Kindle, a fast-moving and terrifying account of one of the most famous portions of WWII. Now I’m on to 1776, also on the Kindle. What a gift and...
Bloggingheads at the NYT
I just watched a New York Times bloggingheads debate between Molly Ziegler Hemingway of Christianity Today Sarah Posner of Religion Dispatches over the matter of same-sex marriage. Hemingway took what appears to me to be the most popular evangelical line, a...