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Author Archives: Alastair Roberts
Links 2 – 17/8/13
This week’s links post. Once again, I will be posting links largely without comment. These particular links weren’t chosen because I agreed with them, but because they piqued my interest or amusement in some manner. I might have strong disagreements … Continue reading
Posted in In the News, Just for Fun, Links, On the web, The Blogosphere, What I'm Reading
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Atheists Are More Intelligent Than Religious Persons
A recent meta-analytical study has identified an inverse correlation between faith and intelligence. Such studies are relatively common: many of us will already have encountered a number of studies identifying the same correlation. One also sees similar research supporting the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, In the News, On the web, Society
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Links 1 – 10/8/13
It has been a long time since I last produced a link post, so I thought that it would be worthwhile to do one again. This time, I will be posting most of the links without any comment. Very few … Continue reading
Posted in Just for Fun, Links, My Reading, On the web, Video, What I'm Reading
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Online Discourse, Leadership, Progressive Evangelicalism, and the Value of Critics
The following are a few loosely related issues that I have been thinking about at various points over the last few days, in light of the millennials conversation and its aftermath. I have made a number of these comments in … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, The Blogosphere, Theological, Theology
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A Few Photos
It just occurred to me that it is a year since I had a long holiday in the US with my father, after which I posted dozens of photos (here, here, and here). Since that holiday, I have hardly posted … Continue reading
Posted in My Doings, Photos, What I'm Doing
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Why Are My Posts So Dense And Lengthy?
Almost every time that one of my posts is widely shared on Facebook and Twitter, I can predict with some certainty that I will receive several remarks among the length and style of my writing. These remarks run the gamut … Continue reading
Questioning the Questioners
I have just had a piece published over on Threads, a follow-up to yesterday’s post about millennials and the Church. Within it I call the popular emphasis upon questioning among millennials into question: Our questions reveal the terms within which … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Ethics, Guest Post, Society, The Blogosphere, The Church, Theological, Theology
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Talking About My Generation: Millennials and the Church
A few days ago, a Rachel Held Evans piece entitled ‘Why Millennials Are Leaving the Church’ was published on the CNN Belief Blog. Weighing in at little under 750 words, it nonetheless packs a considerable punch and has been linked … Continue reading
Questions for Gay Affirming Christians
In my previous post, I provided a list with some examples of questions that Christians opposed to homosexual practice could ask themselves. I invited my readers to suggest further questions in the comments. Within this post I wish to provide … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Sex and Sexuality, Society, Theological
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Questions for Christians Who Do Not Approve of Homosexual Practice
I have weighed in on the continuing debate on same sex marriage on a number of occasions on this blog. As I have done this, I have generally sought to distinguish that debate, which is primarily about the meaning of … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, Sex and Sexuality, Society, Theological
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Alastair's Adversaria 