John Mark Reynolds in a comment to my (first!) post at Evangel offered:A child would view Favre well . . . but a real man would see him better. He would glory in his manly exploits as an image of excellence and be provoked to go and do likewise in his own chosen profession.This is in short hoping a . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of my critics claim that I am wrong to tie what happens in the UK to Obamacare. They are wrong. Obamacare envisions instituting centralized cost/benefit/best practices boards that would set the standards of care, what is covered and what not, and eventually who is covered and who . . . . Continue Reading »
Some Christians accept without reservation the teachings of their church, including the status of Scripture as the Word of God, but they nevertheless seldom read it and consequently do not know it very well. This is definitely not true of most evangelicals, who from an early age are taught to read . . . . Continue Reading »
Conversations about evangelicalism —its definition, its essence, its variety, its center and circumference, its history, its self-contradictions and periodic self-reinventions— are things I generally try to avoid. The noise to signal ratio is too high, and the likelihood of talking . . . . Continue Reading »
A blog article over at the Hastings Center opposes legislation that “scripts” what doctors must say during medical counseling. From the column by Howard Minkoff and Mary Faith Marshall, “Government-Scripted Consent: When Medical Ethics and Law Collide” . . . . Continue Reading »
Jared has clarified his critique of evangelicals, which seems to be a sociological critique that, regardless of what we say at the end of the day, our orientation reveals that the political has in fact become an idol.I think it’s worth bringing up at this point Joe’s post from way back . . . . Continue Reading »
This is an elaboration of a comment I left on Justin’s last post. Figured it could be brought up to the main page.I didn’t want to go through the rigmarole of registering so I could comment at the greater Wilson’s place, especially since only to do so would feel to me as becoming . . . . Continue Reading »