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August 2009

August 13, 2009

Evolution’s Place? 1 (RJS)

What place can evolution have in a world created by a personal God? The Darwinian...

August 13, 2009

Atheist Delusions 4

David Bentley Hart, a historian of ideas, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable...

August 11, 2009

Atheist Delusions 3

David Bentley Hart, a historian of ideas, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable...

August 06, 2009

Atheist Delusions 2

Strident critics of "religion" today would like us to imagine a society without religion and...

August 04, 2009

Atheist Delusions 1

The worst society I can imagine is one where Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam...

July 2009

July 31, 2009

Friday is for Friends: David Opderbeck

Read this and ponder -- one to keep in mind.Garret's arms twist at sharp angles. ...

July 06, 2009

A Painful Letter and Request

I got this letter last Friday, July 3d, as a comment on a post and...

June 2009

June 30, 2009

CS Lewis: Outside the Pale? (RJS)

For those who don't know this, this post is written by our friend "RJS," a...

June 25, 2009

What do you tell your daughter if she says…

What do you say to your adult daughter if she tells you she's not convinced...

June 16, 2009

Tiktaalik roseae and Friends (RJS)

Nay, fly to Altars; there they'll talk you dead; For Fools rush in where Angels...

June 11, 2009

What About Miracles? (RJS)

SMcK foreword: RJS's question below stunned me this morning. Did God create in such a...

June 09, 2009

Darwin and the Bible 3 (RJS)

A couple of months ago we had two posts based on a book Darwin and...

May 2009

May 26, 2009

Faith and the Prospect of Death

I hope the title to this post didn't scare you off because I want to...

May 12, 2009

The Bible and Knowledge 3 (RJS)

We continue our discussion of Kent Sparks's book God's Word in Human Words (GWHW) moving...

April 2009

April 23, 2009

Enns, Sparks, Arnold, and Chapman on the OT: Part 2 (RJS)

A couple of months ago Peter Enns posted on his blog part one of a...

April 14, 2009

Genesis 4-5 – Biblical Genealogies (RJS)

We discussed the creation narratives in Genesis 1-3 in a series of posts earlier this...

March 2009

March 31, 2009

Education, Discipleship, and the Future 2 (RJS)

We started a discussion a while ago on University Ministry - a discussion I would...

March 19, 2009

Education, Discipleship, and the Future 1 (RJS)

Scot has been presenting a series of related posts pondering the future of evangelicalism and...

December 2008

December 29, 2008

Third Way and Determinism

Some Christians are functional deists: they believe in God but their God has very little...

December 26, 2008

Friday is for (Third Way) Friends

Adam Hamilton asks if there will be Hindus in heaven in the 12th chp of...

December 24, 2008

“I want Absolute Truth.” A Letter Continued

This is the second part of the letter we received the other day. Again, I'm...

December 23, 2008

“How can that woman believe?” A Letter

Here is a letter sent to me about a woman struggling with faith, and one...