ACPADI Book Club
Would you like to join the All the Cool People Are Doing It (ACPADI) Book Club? Our subtitular name is the Blogape Book Consortium (BBC) if you don’t like ACPADI. There are only two members so far, but we are willing to grant that more cool people exist, and we have left some room for them in our club. Here’s the deal: every week during the month of August we are going to read a chapter of Creation Regained: Biblical Basics for a Reformational Worldview. In order to be part of the club, you...
Same Old Fish
Marvin Olasky asks Stanley Fish intelligent questions. Check out the audio, too.
Four American Cultural Assumptions Revealed
When we address our culture, we have the benefit of lifelong immersion in it. But alas, that blessing is also a curse, for like fish in water, we cannot see the medium in which we swim. It is hardest to see what is always before our eyes, hardest to remark on values everyone accepts. We are imbedded in a web of assumptions and experiences and inherit biases and blind spots from them. Most Americans assume that freedom is essential to happiness, that innovation is good, that contact with other...
American Israelism
I recently stumbled across a Christian radio station broadcasting on the Internet. Its origin is the far-right, King-James-Only sector of Protestant (make that Baptist—they’ve forgotten that they’re Protestants) fundamentalism. A perky choir was singing the following: We pledge our lives to you, America, With every fiber of our being, Every breath within our soul! We pledge our lives to you, America, And pray that God will keep our land secure and whole; We pledge our lives! This troubles me....
The FREE (!) Dissertation-Writing Service that I Used
There is a great dissertation-writing service online that is completely FREE! You have to add appropriate footnotes, and it takes a while to produce a finished document of 300 pages, but with this helpful tool you, too, can get a Ph.D. It was created for the art world originally, but it worked great for me. For my dissertation, I just did some find-and-replace work to remove art terms and put in theological ones (dadaism became the New Perspective on Paul, for example). But some terms are both...