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2011-06-18T15:37:00-05:00

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Landmarks of Early Film #1

Last updated on: June 18, 2011 at 3:37 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

Over the past few years, I’ve been watching a lot of early movies in more or less chronological order. I started doing this fairly systematically in 2009, but the first early-movie DVD I got from Netflix was back in December 2007: Landmarks of Early Film #1. This is a collection of movies from the earliest days of the Edison company and the Lumiere Bros. through D. W. Griffiths and the Keystone Cops. It was a great place to start my... Read more

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2011-06-15T10:30:00-05:00

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“Blog tour” for my wife’s book

Last updated on: June 15, 2011 at 10:30 am By Edwin Woodruff Tait

It may seem somewhat improper to review a book by my wife, but hey, she asked me to do it and I’m being upfront about my “bias”! With said bias in mind: Jenn’s basic argument is that Methodists who pushed for the use of non-alcoholic “wine” in the Eucharist in the late 19th century were doing so based on a coherent theological/philosophical point of view based in “common-sense realism.” I’m no expert on commonsense realism, so I won’t discuss the... Read more

2011-03-18T12:50:00-05:00

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Response to Kevin DeYoung, Part 1

Last updated on: March 18, 2011 at 12:50 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

The most thorough and widely touted refutation of Love Wins is a lengthy review by Kevin DeYoung, a pastor in East Lansing. I applaud Pastor DeYoung for his thoughtful and substantive approach. He’s done an excellent job of explaining why conservative Reformed evangelicals (and no doubt many conservative Arminians as well) find Bell’s views so troubling. Pastor DeYoung clearly takes seriously his responsibilities to defend the faith once delivered to the saints and to protect the sheep of Christ from... Read more

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2011-03-15T22:49:00-05:00

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OK–now that I’ve actually read the book. . . .

Last updated on: March 15, 2011 at 10:49 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

Here’s a review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins. First of all, I had never read any of Bell’s books before this. I have never been a fan of Bell or of megachurch celebrities or of people who write books with short lines like this and even this. (For one thing, it seems really mean to trees–perhaps Bell really isn’t a liberal after all.) When my students mention _Velvet Elvis_ I want to shake my head and say, “Can we please... Read more

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2011-03-12T12:31:00-05:00

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George MacDonald, Rob Bell, and standards of orthodoxy

Last updated on: March 12, 2011 at 12:31 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

The evangelical world seems to be in a tizzy about a book that almost no one has yet read. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. That’s how the world of the tweet works. As a guy who blogs about every year or so, I find it hard to keep up. I’m still trying to digest things that happened hundreds of years ago. In a rare foray into modern times, I attended a talk last night about George MacDonald (1824-1905), an... Read more

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2010-07-27T15:28:00-05:00

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What I believe about the Church–a muddled manifesto

Last updated on: July 27, 2010 at 3:28 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

A year or two ago, on my friend Chris Armstrong’s blog (Grateful to the Dead), I got in an argument about whether there was such a thing as “mere Anglicanism.” As a result, I started writing what I called “An Anglican Manifesto,” laying out what I believe as an Anglican. A very disgruntled one, but as a Methodist theologian once said to my wife when she described me that way, “Is there any other kind?” The problem was, though, that... Read more

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2010-03-15T16:43:00-05:00

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Religion and art–followup to a Facebook discussion

Last updated on: March 15, 2010 at 4:43 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

Yet again I return to this blog after a very long absence (the longest yet). I hope to post regularly, but we’ll see what happens. At any rate, the occasion for this post is a recent Facebook conversation. One of my friends asked why Christians no longer produce great art. I replied that this wasn’t entirely a fair generalization, but that the proportion of good art to “kitsch” probably is higher than it used to be, for the following reasons:... Read more

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2008-01-22T13:17:00-05:00

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Which Church Father are you?

Last updated on: January 22, 2008 at 1:17 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

You’re St. Justin Martyr! You have a positive and hopeful attitude toward the world. You think that nature, history, and even the pagan philosophers were often guided by God in preparation for the Advent of the Christ. You find “seeds of the Word” in unexpected places. You’re patient and willing to explain the faith to unbelievers. Find out which Church Father you are at The Way of the Fathers! Read more

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2008-01-18T14:42:00-05:00

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Why does anyone vote for Romney?

Last updated on: January 18, 2008 at 2:42 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

It seriously puzzles me. OK, he’s no doubt a competent administrator. But who cares how competent he is if he’s sold his soul? Romney and McCain campaigned in Michigan on the issue of the economy and the loss of jobs. McCain was honest, Romney gave a lot of smarmy feel-good talk that didn’t mean anything, and Romney won. Did people seriously believe that Romney could deliver his promise to bring back lost jobs? Why would they believe a thing like... Read more

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2007-05-05T22:54:00-05:00

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Bush was right to veto the Iraq withdrawal bill

Last updated on: May 5, 2007 at 10:54 pm By Edwin Woodruff Tait

The war was stupid and wrong from the start. We (Americans, British, etc.) went into it on false pretences, and we have almost certainly done more harm than good. But we are there now. You can’t just charge into a neighbor’s house and make a mess and then run off. We have made ourselves reponsible for what happens. To withdraw unilaterally simply compounds the evil we committed by invading in the first place. We must withdraw when and only when... Read more

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