Wes Hill, guest posting at Abraham Piper's microblog 22 Words, writes: I’ve never understood the phrase, “the exception that proves the rule.” An exception proves there isn’t a “rule” to begin with, right? Here was my suggestion: Ok, try this: The general rule is that...
Culture
Gotta See
I hardly ever post YouTube videos, but this is amazing. Man's God-given powers are amazing. God is amazing. HT: Wes Hill
Capitalism Samizdat
I read nearly everything Carl Trueman puts out; I always find his analyses helpful. And he writes very well English. And he's a nice, uh, bloke, I happen to know from personal experience. His recent review essay shows how easy it is to boast that we're not "conforming...
A TV Ramble
With all these new flat screens, they can't really call it the "idiot box" anymore. What, "idiot slate"? Just remember: the medium is the message. And if you're watching the idiot box, what does that say? I get the biggest kick out of the vision of our society painted...
Why I Believe Again
The fascinating testimony of a Christian turned atheist turned (recently) Christian who once wrote a controversial biography of C. S. Lewis: Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely...
Chambers and Creationism
Another great quotation from Whittaker Chambers that has come to my mind many, many times: I date my break [from Communism, which Chambers lived for and which, he says, was inherently atheist] from a very casual happening. I was sitting in our apartment on St. Paul...
Theologically Exhausted
I've just had the longest post famine in the history of my blog (excluding my honeymoon), I believe. I'm afraid I'm currently focused on work and dissertation, both of which have required significant attention recently. But I can't let my blog readers—both of...
Genesis 1 and Exodus 19, A Canonical Connection
Do you find yourself baffled by the Old Testament? You want to apply it to your life, but many passages seem impenetrable and the lessons you hear drawn from others just don't ring true? One idea I was taught in seminary that has begun to yield some rich results for...
Jacobs on Augustine on the Hermeneutic of Love
To persons who claim that their understanding of Scripture comes from God alone and not from mere humans, Augustine replies that God didn’t teach them the letters of the alphabet. —Alan Jacobs, A Theology of Reading: The Hermeneutics of Love
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
What's going to happen now that the internet has blown the old financial model which kept newspapers afloat for so long? An interesting essay by Clay Shirky suggests what I, too, think is the right answer: I don’t know. Nobody knows. We’re collectively living through...
How Science Fiction Found Religion by Benjamin A. Plotinsky, City Journal Winter 2009
Popular art both reflects and forges popular culture. Science is the ultimate authority for so many in the West, so it shows up in movies. “The Force” is one detail in which the new [Star Wars] films are actually less spiritual than the old. In the 1977 movie, Obi-Wan...
Laissez-Faire Must Not Be Lazy but Must Strive to Promote Fairness
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...