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In Search of a Final Accident
David Brooks links to some of the best magazine writing of the past year, and one of the articles is about the origin of the universe. In The Accidental...
The Curious Case of Robert Gundry
Ivan Karamazov worried that if God is dead then all things are permissible. Likewise, so evangelicals have been told, if there is no magisterial authority, then all biblical interpretations...
The Moral Landscape (a review)
Does science have anything to tell us about the nature of morality? Could use of the scientific method help us apprehend the nature of good and evil? Sam Harris...
Some 4th of July Humor
How to have the perfect 4th of July BBQ:
The Facebook Fallacy
In the wake of the Anthony Weiner scandal, the Washington Post’s calls attention to the modern phenomenon of the ‘e-fair.’ This is nothing new, of course, as social media...
Taylor, Bell, and Bull
If you haven’t already heard, Rob Bell is being judged. Or so say his defenders in the wake of a post by Justin Taylor that concluded that Bell “is...
A Scholar’s Prayer
A university faculty prayer inspired by the Chorister’s Prayer of the Royal College of Church Music. Adapted by the CS Lewis Foundation Bless, O Lord, us your servants,Who are...
I Told Me So
Gregg Ten Elshof’s I Told Me So is one best books I’ve read this year. In it he meditates on the fascinating phenomenon of self-deception, and lists a variety...
Frank Schaeffer Cannot Forgive Himself for the Religious Right
PBS has a new miniseries God In America that seeks to get “Inside the tumultuous 400-year history of the intersection of religion and public life in America.” Later, the...
The ‘Sanctification Gap’
In 1973, Richard Lovelace penned an important article detailing the causes of an acute problem that persists in the lives of many evangelical Christians. He calls it the “sanctification...
Evangelicalism and the Tower of Babel
Looking over the blogosphere as it relates to evangelicals has been an entertaining, yet frightening exercise. It is entertaining, so far as blogs go, to produce and weigh in...
The Sheer Ugliness of Baseball
After reading David B. Hart’s essay on baseball, A Perfect Game, in this month’s issue of FIRST THINGS, I soaked up his idyllic metaphors as I entered Target Field...
On Ecumenical Questions
I am afraid to say that I have become a more regular listener to a podcast from an atheist blog than I am a poster here at Evangel. Luke...
Goldman Sachs: Ethics for Sale
At the end of their 4-page Code of Business Conduct and Ethics Goldman Sachs declares that they reserve the right to “waive” certain provisions contained in the document. Well that...
The Happy Faces of Yahoo!
Everything is so empty.
