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Andrew SelbyPolitics

Californians: Contact Your Senator about the Judicial Nominations Filibuster

Just 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

TexChurchEvangelicalismTheology and Practice

Trent, Reformation, and the Spirit of Our Age

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

Andrew SelbyEducationEvangelicalism

Building on Matt's Post about Short-Term Missions

I 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

Matthew Lee AndersonBible

We May Have been Wrong

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 […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophy

Fun Reading on the New Pope

First, 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

Matthew Lee AndersonEvangelicalism

Short-Term Missions and the Priorities of the Evangelical Church

I was perusing Jeremy Pierce's site and I saw the plug for the latest Christian Carnival. I've not yet entered any of my posts in the

Matthew Lee AndersonBible

The Sort of Thing Mere-O Goes Nuts Over

From the Independent: Now, in a breakthrough described as the classical equivalent of finding the holy grail, Oxford University scientists have employed infra-red technology to open up the hoard, known as the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, and with it the prospect that […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Mind and Media Review: Seeds of Deception

This is the first official review of the (Lord willing!) many I will be doing for Mind and Media. Some books, no matter how badly written, still merit a reading on other grounds. Georgiana Preskar’s Seeds of Deception, which is […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPhilosophyScience

Scientism and the Death of Wisdom

Many thanks to Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost for hosting the symposium. Ethics in our ostensibly pluralistic society have become increasingly dominated by a single voice: science. In the 2004

Andrew SelbyPhilosophyScience

More fun at naturalism.org...

Check out the "Naturalism and Spirituality" page. The first line strikes me as a bit funny and ironic: Although naturalism may at first seem an unlikely basis for

TexScienceEpistemology

(Inevitably) The Center for Naturalism strikes me as laughable

Thanks to William Dembski's link, I began reading through the official website for the Center for Naturalism and found myself laughing hysterically. It really couldn't be

Keith E. Buhler

Intellectual vision makes for excellent production.

In an ongoing effort to be radically experimental, the following post is a philosophical dialogue I have written regarding the usefulness of “seeing” what you are going to make before you make it. Please let me know how you like […]