Pseudonymous history professor Rufus F. remarks on the difficulty we have hearing—really hearing—music that is mediated by digital technology : I’m always amazed to read essays on classical music from the 18th and 19th centuries. The writers, often with no more musical training than . . . . Continue Reading »
Attention EVANGEL Blog crew and anyone who blogs. Extend the reach of your blog by making it an iPhone App and making it available to Kindle users. I just did it with my blog. Justin Taylor pointed me toward Rainsong Media who has done a nice job with the iPhone App version of my blog. The process . . . . Continue Reading »
David Walsh’s The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence, the magisterial concluding volume of a long-gestating trilogy, proposes a radical revaluation of modernity. Whereas Walsh began twenty years ago with the view that modern philosophy was complicit in . . . . Continue Reading »
Doesn’t this conceptual rendering of the new Harry Potter Theme Park look like it was painted by Thomas Kinkade?At first I thought it must be a strange coincidence and that it couldn’t be by the Painter of Light™ since it depicts people in the picture. But then I was looking . . . . Continue Reading »
I became a young-earth creationist in my sophomore year of high school. It was not a scientific decision. I had just become a Christian, and it was clearly taught on the first page of the Bible. I was young and impressionable. I took up the cause with zeal.A teenager who thinks they have the . . . . Continue Reading »
I came across a very perceptive and fascinating comment from a young man who has come out of the house church/Emergent church movement into Lutheranism. No, this is not a shamless plug for Lutheranism, but rather, for the purpose of this blog site, it is a fascinating look into what a growing number . . . . Continue Reading »
I hate to admit it, but God built me up to be a blogger. I’m really at my best when I am at 3 pages or less in final content (about 1500 words) and I try to stick to one subject — even by analogy.Kevin DeYoung may be my fellow blogger here at Evangel, but he’s not really a blogger. . . . . Continue Reading »
George Will has an interesting column today on Sarah Palin and “America’s durable but shallow reservoir of populism”: The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his . . . . Continue Reading »
I am in LA, near my old stomping grounds in the San Fernando Valley, where I just gave grand rounds at a Veteran’s medical facility to physicians, residents, and other medical staffers. We had a very good discussion about maintaining human intrinsic dignity as the fundamental purpose of . . . . Continue Reading »
If you’ve ever wanted to listen in to lectures on theology and apologetics by R. R. Reno, then you should check out the website for KVSS, a Catholic radio station in Omaha. They have some nicely done and substantive interviews with Reno discussing faith and reason in St. Thomas, John Henry . . . . Continue Reading »
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