Sometimes, I have my doubts about the numenous content of the bible. And I don’t mean about its truth, I mean about its potency. The phenomenal aspects of the lives of the prophets and other biblical subjects are very important as parallels and examples to our own lives, but the fantastical aspects of the bible…
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I have been reading more and more of and about J. R. R. Tolkien these days, and it is becoming clear that the man is exactly the role model I want to move toward for the rest of my life. There is little else that needs to be said about the man other than the…
DetailsMost of us are familiar with C. S. Lewis’s theological and philosophical writings, but you’ve made a point of drawing us to a neglected aspect of his thought, a deep-seated antipathy to “statism.” First of all, what is statism? Theroux: Statism is the view that all social and economic power in society should be…
DetailsAlvin Plantinga, perhaps the greatest living philosopher of religion / theologian of philosophy, Calvinist extraordinaire, almost Amish-looking, and very deep-voiced gentleman gives your lecture this week, about the argument for God from naturalistic evolution, for which he is famous. A tricky one, this guy…
A Russian billionaire rods around in this thing. Which is a pretty awesome thing, but c’mon, guy. No one needs a $300 million dollar yacht: No, the solution isn’t having the government take it away from him and distribute the proceeds to various charities. The solution is that this man is a very large Camel…
DetailsWhere feminism teaches that Men and women tend to behave differently because of social conditioning, not because there are innate biological and psychological differences between them. The chief reason women have been less often represented in the first ranks of public achievement in scholarship, the arts, politics, and war, is that in every human society…
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