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The Silver Bullet

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Over at Pajamas Media, actor Ron Silver has a blog . Silver’s TV work has run the gamut from Rhoda in the 1970s to the West Wing more recently, and in film from the serious— Silkwood, Enemies: A Love Story, and Reversal of Fortune (as Alan Dershowitz, no less)—to the goofy-sweet . . . . Continue Reading »

Karl Barth, Blogger

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Or is that bloggers who blog about Karl Barth ? In any event, there’s a second annual conference scheduled for June, and Der Evangelische Theologe is calling for digital papers. Imagine, though, if Barth did have a blog. “Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and . . . . Continue Reading »

Another Reason Not to Watch The Simpsons

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. . . may be this . People are aghast when I tell them I have never seen a single episode of the cartoon, which seems to have been on since Uncle Miltie was causing gender confusion back in the days when doctors did cigarette commercials. And my resistance is by no means due to some anti-TV . . . . Continue Reading »

Evolution vs. Atheism

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This is a recording of a Norton Lecture delivered by Dr. Alvin Plantinga on October 25 of last year. Here he lays out why there is deep discord between science and naturalism, or atheism. The argument goes (in super-simplified form) that, while Christians believe that one of the signal . . . . Continue Reading »

Online Book Chat

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So a Book TV-type chat show for the Web is scheduled to debut, called Titlepage. When I first saw the headline and who the host was going to be, I thought maybe the site was going to serve as an auction block for new books—publishers read the first chapter on their laptops and ask to see more, . . . . Continue Reading »