Freddie has written a post that forces me into the odd position of defending Sam Harris; the crux of which is the claim that once we accept the human mind as being a contingent accident of evolution, we necessarily must abandon any faith in the intellectual edifices constructed by such minds: For . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell Moore preaches one that everyone should hear, from 04 March 2010 at SBTS: Archived at Archive.Org if you want to podcast it and save it for later; you could also subscribe to the SBTS podcast and really give yourself a . . . . Continue Reading »
When the Tiger Woods scandal broke the initial reaction divided people into two groups: those who asked, “Would he get dumped by his wife?” and those who asked “Would he get dumped by his endorsement sponsors?”In Washington, D.C., most people were interested in the latter. . . . . Continue Reading »
Something you should know about: the weblog Old Life: Reformed Faith and Practice and the sporadically published quarterly newsletter the Nicotine Theological Journal edited by my friend D. G. (Darryl) Hart and John Muether ( subscription information here and archives here ). Both the weblog and . . . . Continue Reading »
As churches large, small, and at-large give consideration to the broad social issues of our day, one complaint that is frequently offered is that the church is doing little or nothing in such-and-such a field. The answer provided to resolve this complaint is that the responsibility must now lie with . . . . Continue Reading »
When Medicare Part D passed, the government gave private companies subsidies to induce them to keep retirees on private health care that covered prescriptions, toward the end of saving Medicare money by keeping those people off the prescription drug benefit rolls. Obamacare reduced these . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things editor Joseph Bottum considers the recent health care legislation : Instead of falling—or rising, if the left proves correct—on the great wave of Armageddon, we must wait, in this trough of exhaustion, to learn what happens next. Our apocalypse is a slow one; it smothers us . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times is a fascinating newspaper for the study of bias. Yes, of course we all have our biases and blind spots, and every publication has a point of view, but there is something about the Times ’ style and tone that suggest a loftier than usual view of their own objectivity and . . . . Continue Reading »
Does music shape not only our souls but the laws of a nation? Roger Scruton believes so : We know of music that is good-humoured, lascivious, gentle, bold, chaste, self-indulgent, sentimental, reserved, and generous: and all those words describe moral virtues and vices, which we are as little . . . . Continue Reading »
For the sake of balance, there are good reasons why Catholics become evangelicals. Books & Culture’s “book notes” features a post by Mark Noll about a book written by Chris Castaldo who is on the staff of College Church in Wheaton. He writes,Yet as a former Catholic who . . . . Continue Reading »
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