Remember Terri Schiavo? Like Schiavo, Jesse Ramirez, a gulf war veteran who was comatose as a result of a car accident, was slated to have his feeding tubes removed. They were taken out for five days but then replaced when the Alliance Defense Fund, a pro-life organization in Arizona, sued. On Tuesday, he “was found [...]
Archive for June, 2007
June 28, 2007
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The Deep South (Jordanian Style)
By Tex in TravelMy camping trip to Wadi Rum and Petra in southern Jordan was a rather exhilarating change of pace after last weekend’s rather plush accomodations on the Red Sea—I’m not sure this opinion was shared with my fellow student though, as his first comment upon learning that we would be staying at the Desert Oasis Camp [...]
June 27, 2007
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The Arab Virtue
By Tex in TravelToday the king of Saudi Arabia visited Jordan. Even if you didn’t have access to television, radio, or any of the newspapers you knew he was in town; every major road was shut down. Public and private transportation ground to a halt and no one seemed to know when things were going to open up [...]
June 27, 2007
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Neocons in their Own Words
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Reviews (Books)To speak of the “birth and death of the neoconservative movement” would be a misnomer. After all, there was no such movement. Rather, as Irving Kristol argues, neoconservatism is a ‘persuasion,’ a persuasion that happened to find its intellectual attitudes in favor after 9/11. After all, George W. Bush ran his first campaign on domestic [...]
June 26, 2007
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God’s Secretaries
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Reviews (Books)I have sometimes thought that the best way to learn history is not to read a textbook or historical synthesis, but to read about one event, one person, or one cultural artifact. In order to understand the significance of any historical particularity, we must understand the surrounding context. But if we wish to understand the [...]
June 25, 2007
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Blink and the Subconscious Christian Life
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Christian Life)First impressions matter. It’s been a truism in business and sales circles, but no book has demonstrated it as clearly as Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink. In the first two seconds of seeing someone, we have already disposed ourselves toward them in a certain way. Life is not just a matter of our conscious thoughts or our [...]
June 24, 2007
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For Sunday: The End of Anger
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Christian Life)When I was young, I had a frightening anger problem. I would throw things, bite people, kick and do whatever it took to get them to understand the depth of my rage and respond as I wanted them to. As I grew, I began to become less angry with the world. I learned to lose [...]
June 23, 2007
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Mark Roberts’ Saintly Smackdown
By Matthew Lee Anderson in ApologeticsI have been tempted to read Christopher Hitchens’ latest screed against religion, but have held off in favor of other projects and interests. My main question is whether the new atheists are really any different than the old atheists. I once started reading Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian, only to stop a [...]
June 22, 2007
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Book Review: Blink
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Reviews (Books)“I didn’t like his face.” It’s an apocraphal story of Abraham Lincoln and a favorite for preachers everywhere. As a young lawyer, Lincoln allegedly once rejected a prospective employee on the grounds that he didn’t like the man’s face. When his fellow lawyers incredulously pressed him to explain, Lincoln responded that every man older than [...]
June 21, 2007
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Refractions
By Tex in TravelWhen some people smile they can give you the impression that they still are frowning; when others smile, it can seem like their whole face can’t contain the joy within themselves. And then there is Mary (pseudonym). When she smiles, her face refracts its smile into a thousand differerent smiles that spread across her mouth, [...]
June 21, 2007
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Death and Life: An American Theology
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Reviews (Books)Arthur McGill is a relative unknown in American theology. His works have mostly been consigned to the “out-of-print” stacks. A quick Google search for “Arthur McGill” turns up only 1700 results, while Google Scholar weighs in at a whopping 47 and Google blogsearch turns up 7 results, 5 of which don’t have to do with [...]
June 20, 2007
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Quotable: Simon Chan on Technology in the Church
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Quotations, UncategorizedSimon Chan, author of Liturgical Theology and Spiritual Theology, recently sat down with Andy Crouch to discuss Christianity’s contemporary expression. Chan clearly is extremely thoughtful and very grounded in tradition. On missional theology: I think that missional theology is a very positive development. But some missional theology has not gone far enough. It hasn’t asked, [...]
June 19, 2007
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Top 13 Book Hacks for the Library Crowd
By Elliot Ravenwood in TechnologyOne of my favorite blogs is Lifehacker, where the motto is “Don’t live to geek, geek to live.” Though not quite a geek myself, I enjoy perusing the site’s daily diet of surprisingly helpful tips for making time on the computer more productive. Today, the Lifehacker team dished on the top thirteen “book hacks”, i.e. [...]