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October 2011

October 27, 2011

Are Christians Losing Their Generosity?

Tithing to churches has reached its lowest level in at least 41 years -- and...

October 19, 2011

Best Blogger in the World on Cyberwarfare

Walter Russell Mead is my favorite blogger. If you're not reading him, you should. Mead...

October 18, 2011

Chuck Colson Weighs In Against Jeffress

You know the Perry camp wanted Chuck Colson to take their side, but Colson apparently...

October 17, 2011

Best Comment on the Perry/Jeffress Kerfuffle

I do my best to interact with commenters at Philosophical Fragments. I get a lot...

October 17, 2011

Eric Metaxas on National Pride and the Destruction of History

I had the pleasure of meeting Eric Metaxas a couple months ago, when he was...

October 12, 2011

The Accidental Radical: A Conversation with Richard Foster, the Wisdom Chaser

I'm sorry to have posted sparsely this week. My newborn is facing some health complications...

October 06, 2011

Jobs for Jesus? What Would a Christian Steve Jobs Look Like?

When I heard that Steve Jobs had passed away, the first person I asked for...

October 05, 2011

The Church is Not Your Canvas

Mark D. Roberts has a piece at Patheos now that warns pastors against the presumption...

October 03, 2011

Rob Bell, Hollywood Celebrity?

Rob Bell recently announced his decision to leave Mars Hill Bible Church, the congregation he...

September 2011

September 21, 2011

It's Baby Time!

Astute followers of this blog will have noted that there has not been much blog...

September 15, 2011

Reader Writes: Reviving Judeo-Christian Values

Editor's Note: One of the purposes of Philosophical Fragments -- and indeed of the Evangelical...

September 14, 2011

Rick Perry: The Middle Finger of the Right

The Presidential primary pains me to watch. Not because the candidates are atrocious -- I...

September 13, 2011

The Absolute Integrity of the Human Person

Wow. A powerful piece from David Mills at First Things on some horrific medical experiments...

September 12, 2011

Remembering September 12th: Can Morning in America Dawn Anew?

Ronald Reagan's famous "Morning in America" campaign commercial heralded the end of a long dark...

September 01, 2011

An Open Letter to a College Freshman

Dear Freshman, At last your time has come. Leaving behind the old world and the deep...

August 2011

August 26, 2011

What's So Scary About Rick Perry?

Douglas MacKinnon writes at Investor's Business Daily: Beyond the usual suspects in the far-left media,...

August 23, 2011

Depression and Jobs

After writing the Morning Report for today, I came across two articles I had to...

August 23, 2011

Morning Report, 8/23: Credit for Libya, Perry as God of Texas, Martin Luther Kang, and Romney's Mormonism

In the News 1. While the pronouncements of victory may be immature, it does appear...

August 22, 2011

Morning Report: Spending Cuts, All the News That's Fit to Fabricate, UK Riots, the Morality of Atheists, and the Freshman 15

In the News 1. A recently-released survey of American economists finds that those advocating spending...

August 19, 2011

Everyday Transcendence: Rock Climbing in Yosemite

My Everyday Transcendence series has highlighted music and art and endurance in the midst of...

August 19, 2011

Morning Report – Pews: "Crazy Christians," Archbishop Chaput, Missionary Abuse, Persecution, and the Theology of Taxation

*** Morning Report - In the Pews *** 1. Lisa Miller of the Washington Post,...

August 19, 2011

Morning Report – News: Perry's Jobs Record, the Big Sort, Republicans Against America, and Rick Know-Nothing Perry

1. Texas has produced over the past five years more net new jobs than the...

August 18, 2011

Morning Report: The "Socialist" Early Church, Not Supporting Rick Perry, Washington Wealth, and "Submission"

In the News 1. Important pieces on "twin killings" or (more euphemistically) "reductions" -- in...

August 14, 2011

Is the Tea Party a 'Social Justice' Movement? – From the Vault

For my Sunday reposts, I choose pieces previously written, but still relevant, and share them...

August 14, 2011

Do We Know What God Looks Like?

Some time ago, we at Patheos held a conversation on "What does God look like?"...

August 12, 2011

Our Political System: Not Broken, But a Quagmire

It's a familiar refrain that our political system has grown dysfunctional, even broken. Congress, for...

August 10, 2011

Religious Quotes of the Day: Stott on Hell, Hating God, "Crisis Pregnancy Centers," and Mormon "Weirdness"

John Stott, quoted by Kyle Roberts: Emotionally, I find the concept [of eternal conscious torment]...

August 09, 2011

Political Quotes of the Day: Interracial Marriage, Economy Blame Game, and Mark Hatfield

Ralph Richard Banks: I came away [from my research] convinced of two facts: Black women...

August 08, 2011

Religion Quotes of the Day

Sociologist Bradley Wright in an interview from Patton Dodd at Patheos: There is this funny paradox:...

August 08, 2011

Political Quotes of the Day: Debt-Ceiling and Standard and Poor's Special Edition

I'm going to begin a series that I'll try to post every day. It will...

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