Joe Carter

Remember this game you played as a kid: The first player whispers a sentence to the next player and each player successively whispers what that player believes they heard to the next. The last player announces the statement to the entire group, which invariably has changed in a quite amusing ways . . . . Continue Reading »

Concerns about online-privacy have always struck me as bit overwrought, if not downright absurd. The handwringing libertarian privacy absolutists would have us believe that information that is readily available in our offline lives deserves Top Secret level classification when put online . . . . Continue Reading »

While The civil rights movement was led by Christians, it is easy to forget how many believers—particularly in the South—did not support the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On this day set aside to honor this great leader we should read his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” . . . . Continue Reading »

On the internet you’re always just a few clicks away from learning about any subject that that interests you. But the aspect of the web that never ceases to amaze me is that you can also stumble on items that lead you to become interested in topics—or combinations of topics—you . . . . Continue Reading »

With our metrosexual worship leaders, two-guitars-and-a-drum praise bands, and “Jesus is my boyfriend” songs , I assumed we evangelicals had a monopoly on messing up church music. But at the always intriguing Catholic literary journal Dappled Things , Jeffrey Tucker argues that music in . . . . Continue Reading »

Football fans like me (How ‘bout them Cowboys?) like to think the sport is more action-packed than more boring games, like golf or soccer. But research shows that minute-for-minute a Beckett play has  more action than an NFL game : According to a Wall Street Journal study of four recent . . . . Continue Reading »

While most First Things’ readers won’t be surprised by the claim that the Hebrew language was used during the period of King David’s reign, this is still an interesting and significant archaeological corroboration : A breakthrough in the research of the Hebrew scriptures has shed . . . . Continue Reading »

Journalist Michael Kinsley once said that, “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.” Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley recently committed such a gaffe by telling the truth about what the Democratic Party stands for. In a radio interview this week Coakley said that . . . . Continue Reading »

Over on the Evangel blog, Kevin DeYoung has one of the most offensive posts I’ve ever read: Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I’m sorry, but it’s really annoying. We don’t discuss ideas or debate arguments, we try to figure out who . . . . Continue Reading »

In the Chronicles of Higher Education , Michael Roth, a humanities professor at Wesleyan University, explains how the notion of “critical thinking” has devolved into the game of just being critical of whatever someone says: A common way to show that one has sharpened one's . . . . Continue Reading »