In his excellent post on evangelicals and nuclear abolitionism , Brian Auten notes that “it is important for, again, non-experts—national security and theological alike—to see that there are other, in some cases radically different and yet still Christian, perspectives to many of . . . . Continue Reading »
If nothing is sacred, nothing can be profaned.This line has been haunting me for a few months. The video of the fellow tweeting during his wedding brought it back to mind.As one commenter on put it in response to the video, “It seems to me the issue–an all-too common one these . . . . Continue Reading »
So some of you are thinking, “Frank, you’re a jerk, you know that? This is the Christmas season, and you’re ignoring the fact that the Angels we have heard on High sang Glo-o-o-ria in-ex-chel-sis-day-o. They were happy – John Piper would say they were happy. John Mark Reynolds . . . . Continue Reading »
Safe to say that Van Jones will never be president.Hanging out with a 9/11 Truther, people who are not sure that 9/11 was an act of terrorism by Bin Laden and company, is a good sign you are not fit to serve. Similarly the right has been plagued by people unsure whether President Obama was born in . . . . Continue Reading »
Longtime readers know of my obsession with mathematical beauty, so it should come as no surprise to find me hopping up and down most eagerly and pointing you towards Matthew Milliner’s very immodest proposal in Public Discourse. My only quibble with the article is that the proportion of . . . . Continue Reading »
“Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.” (Augustine, Confessions (Book 1)The longing of our hearts for something more, something beyond ourselves is powerful. Intuitively, we know that we need something to complete our broken hearts, . . . . Continue Reading »
Phenomenally weird religious things intrigue some phenomenally weird religious people.Now I don’t trust anybody without a sense of wonder and a great many things that appear bizarre on first glance turn out to be true. Ripley made a living out of helping us to believe what seemed highly . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently NASA’s James Hansen has been as secretive over at NASA as the UK climate warming scientists caught up on Climategate were, refusing to release data by which NASA had made its calculations puruant to a Freedom of Information Act request. A lawsuit is being filed. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
If the core data of a model is proven to be false, is it still a valid model? Worse yet, what if the very model itself becomes meaningless? What are we to do with a “science” where that “science” lacks either soundness or substance? The situation we know as . . . . Continue Reading »
Aghast by the church’s historical “moral sausage-making” when it comes to the political outworking of the gospel in the area of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Tyler Wigg-Stevenson—a Baptist minister and a nuclear policy expert—responded by launching the Two Futures Project . . . . Continue Reading »
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