NOTE: This post is part of a series – I am ‘reading the classics together’ at Challies.com, and blogging my way through J. Gresham Machen‘s Christianity and Liberalism (1923) 1. Machen employs a cool, evaluative, intellectual, dialectic approach My first observation is that I...
Some fun with words and definitions – big words are very useful, but big words, not to mention copious words, can obfuscate rather than clarify. Here’s some fun words related to words. Got more? bombastic grandiose but with little meaning, ostentatiously lofty in style grandiloquent...
In case you missed the hilarious scientology episode of South Park, you can watch it here (WARNING: Explicit Language). You can also learn all about scientology through this funny flash dealio (WARNING: Explicit Language). And of course, you can find even more fun stuff like...
Prosthesis tagged me to answer these questions. A. Seven things to do before I dieB. Seven things I cannot doC. Seven things that attracted me to [my spouse or significant other or best friend]D. Seven things I say most oftenE. Seven books (or series) I...
One of the more informative podcasts I listen to regularly is Issues Etc. Recently, they interviewed Joel Heck, who’s written a very inexpensive book entitled In the Beginning, God: Creation from God’s Perspective, which examines the questions surrounding the historicity and interpretation of Genesis. I...
The New York Time (as always) is advocating controversial science with no need for public debate. In an editorial yesterday, the Times editors attempted to calm any doubts or fears about the creation of chimeras (animal-human hybrids). There’s no problem they assured us. Researchers just...
With the upcoming Sesquicentennial (150 years) of the Civil War, a lot of discussion is occurring around racism in America, as well as the role of religion and politics in the making and unmaking of slavery and racism in America. Here’s two really good resources,...
In my last post, I discussed the various defenses of the eternality of hell – this time, I would like to compare the role of punishment in the temporal world (our current temporal time frame) and in eternity (eternal time frame). 1. What does EARTHLY...
