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Kim on Carr on How Our Tools Shape Us
Joseph Kim at Second Nature quotes Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: Over the last…
July 16, 2013
Are People Basically Good or Bad?
For as long as I can remember, the idea that people are basically good has been taken to be a…
July 16, 2013
Authoritative Application?
My respected friend Joel Arnold probably does need to leave this country, as he currently plans to do. What he says…
July 11, 2013
Stanley Fish Paper Published in Answers Research Journal
I've been kind of super excited about this... I have finally thrown my tiny pebble into the pond! Now I'm…
July 10, 2013
The Kingdom of Christ
I'm embarrassed to say I did not know this, more embarrassed to admit that I never thought to ask: The…
July 9, 2013
Sloganeering and Homosexual Marriage
Sloganeering is not generally a persuasive form of argument: "God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!" Has any…
July 9, 2013
Whose God Is Their Belly
http://youtu.be/Ml8bQDnnkKk
July 3, 2013
Ode to Moses
Preaching weekly through Genesis over the last year or so has given me a much deeper appreciation for the literary…
July 2, 2013
Google Reader Replacements
I've been using Google Reader since before Al Gore was born, but now that it's nearing its death (Monday), it's…
June 28, 2013
Flavel and Piper on Antinomianism
According to Flavel, antinomians fail to distinguish, as they ought, between vindictive punishment from God, the pure issues and effects…
June 19, 2013
Excellent, Edifying (and Even Entertaining) Sermon on a Controversial Topic
My thinking—and my soul—really profited from this sermon by Kevin DeYoung. The thoughts were not new to me, since I'd…
June 18, 2013
Moral Esperanto
I shared with you not long ago MacIntyre's opening illustration in After Virtue, an illustration drawn from Canticle for Leibowitz.…
June 17, 2013
Walsh and Middleton, “The Transforming Vision,” (IVP, 1984), 62.
There are only two basic categories: the Creator and the created. If we do not worship God, we will focus…
June 17, 2013
Illustrating the Etymological Fallacy
I love words, and I love languages. I'm always running across little interesting tidbits when it comes to words; often…
June 14, 2013
Review: Five Views on Apologetics
Five Views on Apologetics by Steven B. Cowan My rating: 3 of 5 stars Once upon a time, a fellow…
June 12, 2013
Charles Bridges, Exposition of Psalm CXIX, 90.
But we must not be content with walking in this way; we must seek to "delight in it." Delight is…
June 11, 2013
Review: Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent by N.D. Wilson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Witty randomness…
June 11, 2013
Flock
I'm a Philistine. Not into poetry like a well-rounded liberal arts grad ought to be. I have nothing against poetry;…
June 7, 2013
Technology Help for Whetstone Conference Attendees
Minutes ago I finished presenting a brief session at my church's pastor's conference. In that session I focused on two…
June 6, 2013
Review: Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense
Simply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense by N.T. Wright My rating: 3 of 5 stars The main value of this…
June 5, 2013