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Andrew Selby

Easter Prayer after reading Augustine's "Confessions" - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Lord, you are good and your promises never fail. I bless you most precious God, maker and sustainer of the universe. I am learning much through Augustine right now. He fell away from you and must return, but can only […]

Andrew SelbyPro-Life

Pagan vs. Christian in the Schiavo Case

Pagan vs. Christian in the Schiavo Case

Matthew Lee AndersonPro-Life

European Birth Rates

European Birth Rates

Andrew Selby

Terri Schiavo Case - Bush gets involved - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

This case is really getting to my heart – I haven’t become this spirited about an issue for quite some time. Michael Schiavo, Mrs. Schiavo’s husband, is allowing her to slowly die since he removed her feeding tube. So far, […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Robert George on Terry Schiavo - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Robert George on Terry Schiavo (ht: Volokh Conspiracy): I don’t see that any just authority of the state of Florida is being displaced by the effort of Congress to ensure that Terri’s right to life is honored and that civil […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Charity Begins at Homo Sapiens - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Check out a recent article in New Scientist on the deep-seated altruism of humankind. The article isn’t conclusive, but it does pose problems for those who wish to collapse the fundamental distinction between humankind and the animal kingdom. Not that […]

TexPhilosophyEpistemology

Moral Relativism and the Air Force

Moral Relativism and the Air Force

Andrew SelbyFilm Reviews/Hollywood

“Their Eyes Were Watching God”

“Their Eyes Were Watching God”

Keith E. Buhler

Humour's purpose - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

Hypothesis 1: One purpose of humour is to make palatable truths so horrible and terrible that we would otherwise ignore them entirely. I take “humour” to mean something like the presentation of some speech or image whose intention is to […]

Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging

GodBlogCon Again

GodBlogCon Again

Keith E. BuhlerTechnology

Enourmously helpful addition to the Internet

Enourmously helpful addition to the Internet

Matthew Lee AndersonBlogging

GodBlogCon 2005 - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture

The Christian Blogosphere now knows what I’ve known for a few days: GodBlogCon 2005 will be hosted by the Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University. The official announcement is up over at Andrew Jackson’s blog. How, you ask, was I […]