During an afternoon visit to the National Museum of the United Sates Air Force outside Dayton, OH I was struck with the amazing power of the human spirit. This reminder was brought home even more powerfully as I left Ohio to pilot an aircraft across the North Atlantic Ocean. Peering down from an altitude of [...]
Archive for March, 2007
March 25, 2007
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Justice, War, and the Human Spirit: Reflections Over the Northern Sea
By Tex in America, Christianity and Culture, War and Peace
March 22, 2007
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What I Should Have Said
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Intelligent Design, Philosophy, ScienceThe recent discussion on my post has been, if nothing else, illuminating and humbling. The criticisms, questions, and issues are overwhelming. While I unfortunately was unable to participate due to working two jobs and receiving major life news that kept me mentally occupied (more on that later, I think), it has been stretching to read [...]
March 13, 2007
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“Hey, Who Smuggled the Gospel in Here?”: Thoughts on Stranger Than Fiction
By Andrew McKnight Selby in Reviews (Films), UncategorizedWarning: I’m writing this assuming you’ve seen the film. There are spoilers. (Then again, C.S. Lewis thought it was a vulgar pleasure to want to know what happens in a story.) “Harold,” Dustin Hoffman’s remarkable character flatly states, “I’m sorry. You are going to die.”
March 12, 2007
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Sanitizing Darwin
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Intelligent Design, Philosophy, ScienceJesus was no stranger to controversial or confusing claims: “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace on the earth. I did not bring come to bring peace, but a sword.” “Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be [...]
March 12, 2007
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Mary for Evangelicals
By Keith E. D. Buhler in Theology (Church)How ought evangelicals to think about Mary, the mother of Jesus? I am a born-and-raised protestant. I grew up in a “non-demonimational” Vineyard Christian Fellowship church. I have since spent a lot of time in Episcopalian parishes, but I have been called back to the Vineyard church of my youth, and there I shall remain, [...]
March 11, 2007
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Fact and Theory
By Tex in Theology (Christian Life)Why does the Bible simply proclaim, rather than argue and defend, difficult Christian doctrines like the Trinity or the Incarnation? This question has been staring at me all afternoon from the little pocket notebook I carry with me to church. This notebook of mine is usually filled with a mad mix of scribbled notes and [...]
March 11, 2007
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Mary, the Church, and Neo-Gnosticism
By Matthew Lee Anderson in UncategorizedI have sometimes argued that the evangelical church is afflicted by the ancient gnostic heresy. The old heresies don’t die. Like the eastern notion of reincarnation, they are always being revived and cast in different clothing. Gnosticism is one of these (as is Pelagianism, Docetism, etc). Tonight, Joe Carter wrote an appreciation of Catholicism that [...]
March 7, 2007
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Is Entails Ought: The Biological Basis of Homosexuality
By Matthew Lee Anderson in PhilosophyOne of the major critiques of traditional natural law theory is that it attempts to derive “ought”–moral responsibility–from the “is” of essences. While speaking at a youth group last Sunday, the topic of homosexuality arose. The students intimated that they didn’t think it was wrong because of the biological basis for the behavior. They were [...]
March 6, 2007
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What is the Good News?
By Keith E. D. Buhler in Apologetics, TheologyI spent my morning with a wonderful friend (who is now also my boss) inviting some high school-aged young people to attend Wheatstone Academy this summer. Our “marketing method” is simply to visit a classroom, in this case the Freshmen and Senior Bible classes at San Juan Capistrano Valley Christian School, and to engage in [...]
March 4, 2007
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Who is the Greatest Philosopher of All Time?
By Andrew McKnight Selby in PhilosophyWell, BBC listeners chose, surprisingly, Karl Marx by an overwhelming majority. The next three in the runnings also exercised great influence for what most would call evil: David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Frederich Nietzche. Finally, Plato gets in there, but his 6% pales in comparison to the 28% garnered for Marx. I’m interested in what [...]