Great Insight on Love
A great insight on love from my friend, and fellow Jonathan Edwards dissertator, Ryan Martin: Love in popular culture could never be cultivated, or else it would be inauthentic. Inauthenticity is adding any kind of layer to what is most natural and “free” (cf. 2 Pet 2:17-19). Read the article here.
Augustine on Inerrancy
I searched for probably two hours for a fantastic Augustine quote I simply cannot believe I didn't save or blog already. I could not find it anywhere, and I'm pretty OCD with my notes and files. So I resorted to Quora. Thank you, Quora! I asked, St. Augustine once used the same "slippery slope" argument for inerrancy that modern-day evangelicals use—I'm sure of it. But where? As I recall, he said something like, "If we admit errors in one portion of Scripture, by what principle can we...
Listen to YouTube
I don't have time to watch YouTube videos that exceed 8 minutes in length. But there are plenty of lectures and sermons on YouTube that I'd like to listen to that I don't need to watch to benefit from. For the last several months I've been using listentoyoutube.com to easily convert those YouTube videos to audio files so I can stick them in my personal podcast feed (with the help of Justcast and Huffduffer). UPDATE: And here's a site that can do Vimeo. It seems a bit slower on YouTube videos...
My New Favorite Choral Group
Voces8 blows me away. So smooth. I've been listening to their classical albums on repeat for weeks as I write (their early pop stuff is kind of silly), and Rachmaninoff is a perfect way to show off their skill:
The Grand Narrative of Scientism
From Oxford historian of science Peter Harrison's (so-far excellent and fascinating) The Territories of Science and Religion: The history of science, on one very common understanding, has three distinct stages. Science is said to have had its origins in Greek antiquity when philosophers first broke away from the myths of their forebears and sought rational explanations for natural phenomena. Science subsequently suffered a setback with the advent of Christianity, going into significant decline...