My brother has passed on to me the oh-so-infamous Farenheit 451 meme. You can read all about its history at Jim’s site. You are stuck inside Fahrenheit 451. What book would you be? As my brother points out, it’s rather a strange question at first glance. I’ll not repeat his explanation (since you should have [...]
Archive for April, 2005
April 26, 2005
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Egalitarian Histories and the Claims of Scripture
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology, Theology (Hermeneutics)The next couple days I’m going to revist a couple recent posts where people have left insightful comments that I would like to fully respond to. I’m going to begin with this post regarding PZ Meyer’s post about giving “proper reverence” to everyone who has gone before us, rather than singling a certain tribal people [...]
April 26, 2005
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Invitations Hat Tip
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsCreative guru Allison Howell, who is also a good friend, has recently started an invitation business. I was going to lavish praise on her, but then I realized that I’m not able to really capture how highly I think of her and her work, which you really must see. She is flat out good at [...]
April 24, 2005
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More on Education…
By Andrew Selby in Education, Epistemology, PhilosophyFor me, education is the most tantalizing subject, so I have to jump in. If you haven’t read Matt’s last post entitled, “King for a Day”, please read it before this one. Matt, I agree with you that education really ought to point students towards truth. However, it is unclear to me how such a [...]
April 24, 2005
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King for a Day
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Education, Epistemology, Outside Articles of Interest, PhilosophyMark at Pseudo-Polymath is dreaming about what he would do if he were king. His first item of business? Education. An excerpt: However beyond that (with one exception below) the only thing We would require of our primary education system is that it teaches its students how to be good students, i.e., how to learn [...]
April 24, 2005
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Matt’s Media-Life Update
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsThanks to Grace Hill Media, I’ve recently become more “in tune” with what’s happening in Hollywood. I am really starting to enjoy thinking about media and the possibilities of communicating messages to broad audiences. With this topic in mind, I attended Biola’s Media Conference today. Among the highlights: I don’t know if it will be [...]
April 23, 2005
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“What the bleep do we know?”
By Keith E. Buhler in NewsIf you haven’t heard of this cinematic sleeper hit, it’s about time you did. It’s a hybrid documentary/narrative intended to undermine the dusty, stale certainty in which many people spend their bored and boring lives and restore them with the fresh, uncertain vibrancy available only to those with the guts to stomach it. A daring [...]
April 22, 2005
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Californians: Contact Your Senator about the Judicial Nominations Filibuster
By Andrew Selby in PoliticsJust take a second and drop an email to Senators Boxer and Feinstein. Let them know that the filibuster is undemocratic because the minority are tyrannizing over the majority – the same majoritarian rule that lies at the heart of American government. Watch Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to see how a filibuster used to [...]
April 22, 2005
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Trent, Reformation, and the Spirit of Our Age
By Tex in Evangelicalism, Theology, Theology (Church)With all the news coverage of the passing of Pope John Paul II and now the election of Pope Benedict XVI, I have begun to hear more people abuzz with talk of ecumenism and the possibility of unity between Roman Catholics and Protestants, specifically evangelicals. There seem to have been three major evangelical responses to [...]
April 21, 2005
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Building on Matt’s Post about Short-Term Missions
By Andrew Selby in Education, Evangelicalism, MissionsI think Matt’s post was right on and I appreciated the thoughtful comments… Here’s a suggestion for you pastors out there: Churches ought to give scholarships to academically and spiritually reputable Christian institutions of higher education. (Biola, Wheaton, Westmont, etc.) They pay the way for the student(s) deemed most likely to succeed and benefit from [...]
April 20, 2005
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We May Have been Wrong
By Matthew Lee Anderson in News, Outside Articles of Interest, Theology (Bible)Recently, Mere-O featured a story in the Independent about previously unknown Greek texts being deciphered. It turns out the story may not be a story at all. From Hannibal at arstechnica: So as of right now, the rest of the papyrological community is waiting to hear Dirk Obbink at Oxford either back up for disavow [...]
April 20, 2005
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66th Christian Carnival Up
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsAnd yet it is Mere-Orthodoxy’s first. Mark Olson at Pseudo-Polymath is hosting the 66th Christian Carnival. For those not “in the know,” Carnivals arrange blog-posts thematically. Olson has arranged his liturgically. This post was our first entry. For those newcomers, we always welcome comments.
April 19, 2005
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Fun Reading on the New Pope
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Christianity and Culture, Outside Articles of Interest, PhilosophyFirst, read Andrew Sullivan’s responses to the announcement of the new pope, here and here and here. Then read Bainbridge’s response here. He politely says what everyone is thinking. Then check out Dr. Reynolds riff on Sullivan’s second post here. The money quote: Sullivan: His theology is indeed distinguished, if somewhat esoteric and at times [...]