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Category Archives: On the web
Triggering and the Triggered in the American Conservative and some further thoughts
Visits to this blog have received something of a bump over the last couple of days, as both Steve Sailer and the American Conservative linked to a post of mine from a few months ago – On Triggering and the Triggered, … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Ethics, On the web, The Blogosphere, Theological
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On Triggering and the Triggered, Part 2
In my previous post, I dealt with the controversy that had developed around Jared Wilson’s post: ‘The Polluted Waters of 50 Shades of Grey, Etc.’ and the quoted comments from Pastor Douglas Wilson within it. Since writing that post, Jared … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies, Culture, Ethics, On the web, The Blogosphere, Theological
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Links and Jottings 2
Having a lot of half-formed thoughts prompted by various articles in my mind at the moment, I thought that I would quickly post a few of them here, along with some interesting links. 1. David Brooks writes about the crisis … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Culture, Ethics, In the News, Just for Fun, Music, On the web, OT, Quotations, The Blogosphere, Theological, Uncategorized, Video
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Mediations Wrapped in Mediations
I recently wrote a piece contrasting the Song of Solomon with pornography. It has now been posted over on The Media Res (lots of other great stuff there – do take a look!): The Song is a celebration of mediation. It … Continue reading
Posted in On the web, Song of Solomon, Theological
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Scorn and the Culture Wars
Timothy Dalrymple writes concerning the growing tendency among progressive Christians to launch vituperative and scornful attacks against ugly liberal caricatures of conservative Christians in order to represent themselves as more loving to the world. He remarks: This is selling anger, … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, On the web, The Blogosphere, Theological
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Matt Colvin on Missionary Support
Matt Colvin blogs on the subject of missionary support: One of the goals of giving a handout to a bum is to avoid entering into any deeper relationship with the beggar: toss him some money and walk on. By contrast, … Continue reading
Posted in On the web, The Blogosphere
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Tebow’s Faith and Ours
A friend just alerted me to Daniel Foster’s thought-provoking article on Tim Tebow. I am sure that a number of you will have read it before, and will be familiar with (and perhaps exhausted by) the discussion surrounding Tebow’s faith … Continue reading
Posted in In the News, On the web
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Marilynne Robinson on What Literature Owes the Bible
Thanks to Jason Goroncy for alerting me to this wonderful article by Marilynne Robinson, the author of Gilead. Literatures are self-referential by nature, and even when references to Scripture in contemporary fiction and poetry are no more than ornamental or rhetorical — indeed, … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, On the web, Quotations
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Is Christmas stolen from the Pagans?
Image from Calamities of Nature Read a thorough debunking of this old chestnut here, on a pagan forum, of all places (the claims to which the writer is responding are in bold). First of all, based on a more careful … Continue reading
Posted in On the web, Society
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Links
Links from the last few days: *** According to Dr Scaer, the most common way people join the Church is that someone invited them. Guess what? If church sucks, people don’t invite others. They don’t think “Man, my friends have … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Controversies, In the News, Lectures, N.T. Wright, NT Theology, On the web, Quotations, The Blogosphere, Theological, Video
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Alastair's Adversaria 