A Must-Read Article on Female Characters in Popular Culture
Excerpts from a lengthy, incisive, must-read from Alastair Roberts: The supposed shallowness of pop culture is deceptive: It is a realm where brilliant and talented people go to try to shape minds at their most unguarded and impressionable. It is on the ground of entertainment media that the so-called culture wars have largely been lost. On more recent Disney princesses: Despite their likeableness and roundedness as characters, these new princesses betray some concerning anxieties about...
Denying What Anyone Can See
Here's what strikes me about this oft-shared-on-my-timeline video: Christians (and creationists in particular) have been roundly criticized by scientific naturalism for denying "what anyone can see with their two eyes," for denying the "clear evidence" against the faith and for macro-evolution. What this video illustrates is that everyone relativizes the evidence we experience to an authoritative standard to which we don't have empirical access. These young people are clearly not dummies; they...
$9.99 for Three Good Audio Books
Here's a great deal on some good books from Christian Audio (I've read only Spiritual Disciplines, but I have reason to believe the others are also valuable). Also, I like the cover designs of the newer two...
Freedom from Inerrancy?
X, a friend of a friend, wrote an autobiographical tale of his journey from Protestant fundamentalism to the evangelical parachurch and into a (currently) non-inerrantist, post-evangelical view which is indebted to people like Kenton Sparks and Peter Enns. I won't link to the post, not because I think you should be an ostrich but because I don't want to put the focus on this individual. I wrote the following response for the benefit of the friend who brought the tale to my attention. So many...
Anybody Else See a Problem with This Cover and The Description?
Anybody else see a problem with the cover and the description on this old book?