Finally, we have returned to mediocrity. Enough bottom-dwelling for us. Week Four: vs. Quakers Recap: We finally came out strong. Jeremy, one of our best outside shooters, drilled a three on our first possession, and while it wasn’t all that smooth, that certainly set the tone. We were never behind for more by three or [...]
Archive for March, 2006
March 29, 2006
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Send Hilary to Jail
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsFor sale: star in a children’s book and send Hilary Clunkton to jail. WorldAhead Publishing, a local conservative political publisher, is selling the opportunity to be featured in one of their hit “Help! Mom!” books. It’s a fascinating opportunity; the possibilities are endless “Have lunch with Michael Jordan!” “Watch Barry Bonds take steroids” (okay, that’s [...]
March 27, 2006
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Da Vinci Code Takedown and Send-up
By Andrew McKnight Selby in Apologetics, Education, Outside Articles of InterestFred Sanders’ post on Middlebrow outing nine art errors in that atrocious, yet very popular and profitable novel, The Da Vinci Code is a gem. I had plenty of reason to disbelieve Dan Brown’s far-fetched historical claims, but I didn’t have much ammo about the art stuff. I thought there was something fishy about it! [...]
March 24, 2006
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An Exercise in Futile Public Relations
By Matthew Lee Anderson in NewsJacques Chirac’s crusade against English has led him to storm out (with aides right behind!) of a European Union meeting. When M Seillière, who is an English-educated steel baron, started a presentation to all 25 EU leaders, President Chirac interrupted to ask why he was speaking in English. M Seillière explained: “I’m going to speak [...]
March 24, 2006
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The Problem with Raising the Stakes in the Debate on Homosexuality in the Church
By Andrew McKnight Selby in Apologetics, Education, Outside Articles of InterestOver at the fantastic blog Mere Comments, Dante translator Anthony Esolen wrote a piece urging the church to “raise the stakes” in the debate on homosexuality in the church by “blistering and frank condemnations of fornication — based on a keen insight into what that sin can do to a human soul.” This would solve [...]
March 24, 2006
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Fleeting Goods are not False Goods
By Peregrine Ward in TheologyIn Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy informs the desperate Boethius that there are two kinds of goods: false goods and true goods. False goods are anything that can be lost. If one seeks is happiness in something fleeting, he is bound to be unhappy because a) he will eventually lose it, and/or b) he [...]
March 24, 2006
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The Method of Natural Theology
By Peregrine Ward in Apologetics, Theology, Theology (Revelation)I have met many theologians who are skeptical of or even hostile to what is commonly called natural theology–in short, the discipline that seeks what knowledge of God might be known apart from special revelation. An objection to natural theology would run something like this: since the God of the gospel is a Trinity of [...]
March 24, 2006
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A Matter of Logic
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Life in generalMy computer is no more. Blogging is light because, well, I have no computer. No computer=no internet=no blogging. As my students would say, “It’s a matter of logic.”
March 23, 2006
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on book-movie conversion
By Keith E. D. Buhler in Humor, Quotations, Words and LanguageNicholas Pileggi, on converting a book to a movie: “The book is the book. You gotta remember. The book is the book. I think a lot of writers miss out on this. You write the book. I am the director of the book. I mean I should have a shot person, a beraue, a writing [...]
March 23, 2006
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A Success of the War in Iraq
By Andrew McKnight Selby in War and PeaceAs always in war, this success is mixed: the battleground has shifted from targets in the West to the soil of Iraq. Of course we would rather the war went away all together and that radical Islam would perish, but as it is the war is currently not waged by terrorists in America. Terrorists vs. [...]
March 20, 2006
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Strange Bedfellows: Reasoned Debate Between Evangelicals and Homosexuals?
By Tex in Evangelicalism, People and RelationshipsA few weeks ago some friends engaged me in a discussion regarding an article by Joel Belz of World Magazine. The article offered the reader the opportunity to imagine himself as the president of a Christian college who had been approached by a group of Muslims requesting permission to come on campus in order to [...]
March 19, 2006
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Is Logical Positivism Possible? (The Discussion Continues)
By Andrew McKnight Selby in Epistemology, PhilosophyIn response to my earlier post and some astute questions by Mere-O’s own, Mr. Buhler, a writer named Soarin’Blonde took up the cause of the Vienna Circle and Logical Positivism. I respond to excerpts below: First of all, Mr. Selby and Mr. Buhler, death, and the non-propagation of one’s theories, is no means of evaluation [...]
March 19, 2006
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The Key to the Gospel of John: Part Five
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Bible)In my last post, pointed out that Jesus’s authority as witness of the Father is unique in that He and the Father are one. In this case, the thing being witnessed about (the Father) and the one who witnesses (Jesus) are ‘in’ each other. When Phillip asks Jesus to show them the Father, Jesus replies, [...]