(Editor’s Note: During the Lenten season, we have invited guest writers to post reflections here at Mere-O. Micah Hoover is an engineer by day, and a blogger by night. He posts Kierkegaardian-style meditations on the Christian life at his blog Mere Devotion. We are happy to have him here.) Children were asked to describe God [...]
Archive for March, 2009
March 18, 2009
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Bono Got It Wrong
By Tex in UncategorizedSometimes conservatives are right to feel about silly or ashamed of their values and beliefs: the old Bill Gothard-esque penchant for oversized down jackets and dressing children in matching outfits or the thankfully short-lived movement to ban interracial dating at Bob Jones University. But these days, it’s the orange sunglasses and the cowboy hat of [...]
March 17, 2009
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Turkish Shoe Shine: An Illustration of the Superiority of the Free Market to Socialism
By Tex in UncategorizedMention the country of Turkey and most people think of exotic carpets and rugs, crusader castles and the Blue Mosque, Ottoman potentates, and the missionary journeys of the apostle Paul, but I submit to you that these are mere accidental images, nothing more than the deceptive work of extravagant and over-zealous poets and tour guides. [...]
March 9, 2009
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The Fast the Lord has Chosen
By Cate MacDonald in UncategorizedEditor’s Note: During the Lenten season, we have invited other writers to join us to help remove the pressure to produce content from us regulars. On that note, I am pleased to introduce Cate MacDonald, a friend, a graduate of Biola University and the Torrey Honors Institute, and a current student at the Institute for [...]
March 4, 2009
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The Politics of Nice
By Tex in Applied Philosophy, PoliticsMoral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. Niceness presents itself as benevolence, but is often merely an evasion of hard decisions that the realities of human nature require. And it has spread throughout our societies because it is often popular with voters. The road to hell, it is said, is paved with good intentions, [...]
March 3, 2009
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Be Still, and Wait without Hope: Reflections on Waiting for God to Enact Justice
By Matthew Lee Anderson in Theology (Christian Life)The past few weeks, I have had an ongoing conversation with a friend who has experienced traumatic evils and has questions about how to respond to them as a Christian. This is the latest installment in that series: it begins with their questions, with my reply following. Now, believing that God’s character means He would [...]