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Our Slippery Slopes
Most of my arguments with defenders of the legalization same-sex marriages have been friendly ones. I have…
Diogenes and the Delphic Oracle
The first century orator Dio Chrysostom narrates a conversation between the famous Cynic Diogenes and a pilgrim…
How Sex is Derailing Lutheran-Orthodox Dialogue
The outcome of the dialogue in Tallinn was sobering, as it is difficult to come closer on…
FIRST LINKS — 7.08.14
For Taylor Swift, the Future of Music Is a Love Story Taylor Swift, Wall Street Journal The…
ID and the nature of science
John Walton’s discussion of Intelligent Design is a mess (The Lost World of Genesis 1). He writes,…
Not All Heroes
US Army Captain Benjamin Summers warns against hero-inflation in a piece in the Washington Post: “Many veterans deserve…
Philosophy and Purity
Socrates claimed that the aim of philosophers was “to practice for dying and death,” and this means…
Genealogy of “Ritual”
“Ritual” wasn’t a hooray term in early Protestantism. Catholics had their rituals and ceremoniousness, and Protestants had…
European Court Decides Church Autonomy Case
I’m a little late getting to this, but I wanted to say a few words about Fernández…
Germanic Jesus
My friends at Romans Road Media have posted a brief essay of mine on the penetration of Christianity…
Abram’s Prophetic Call
Abraham is the first man in the Bible who is called a “prophet” (Genesis 20:7). A prophet,…
Sacred Music in Secular Society
Jonathan Arnold’s Sacred Music in Secular Society poses a question and offers an answer. Sacred music is popular:…
FIRST LINKS — 7.07.14
The Right to Be Wrong Ryan T. Anderson, Public Discourse Ground Down to Molasses Dave Byrne, Boston Review…
This Time Narnia is a City
Every town of any size in America seems to have a road called “College Street”; often there…
Reclaiming the mountains
Yahweh warns that He is going to measure out the wages for those who defy him (Isaiah…
