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Category Archives: philosophical reflection
Why Smart Atheists Should Encourage True, Sacrificial Christianity
It’s Not In the Obvious Lifestyle Differences Theists and atheists don’t live lives that different from each others. This is a source of angst for both sides and actually a point for evolutionary atheism. We are deeply conditioned by our … Continue reading
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Believing what I Want to Believe to Learn to Do What I Don’t Want to Do
John Suk as Astronaut Someone today asked me if I knew John Suk before my habit of reading or commenting on his blog. I confessed that besides renting an apartment from him when I was in seminary I really didn’t. … Continue reading
How loose our grasp on reality
Been doing a lot of pondering about what we can know lately. I’m convinced of a few things: there is a real world out there our grasp on perceiving it, understanding it, and articulating it is tenuous at best. Brain … Continue reading
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If Darwin was Right, His Children Will Lose
Through The Cold Eye of Science We are frail, vulnerable creatures orbiting a burning ball of gas at 66,000 miles an hour, rotating on an axis at over a thousand miles an hour, the experience of which we are mostly … Continue reading
The Self Illusion or the Author and His Story
You are not what you think you are In Christopher Nolan’s psychological thriller Memento, Leonard Shelby attempts to avenge his wife’s murder. During the murder, however, Leonard suffered a blow to the head that left him unable to create new … Continue reading
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The Emergent Bizarro Twins of Mars Hill
Pt. 3 of The Postmodern Logic Behind Emergent Calvinism The Dream of Resurrecting the First Century At the core of the Protestant ethos is the dream that the root vine of the church of Jesus Christ can be tapped by … Continue reading
The Post-modern Logic behind Emergent Calvinism
What cultural conditions helped give rise to the surprising re-emergence of Reformed movement? Many of us who were part of ethnic and historical Reformed churches while appreciating our tradition sometimes considered it sort of an acquired taste. The evangelistic power … Continue reading
Postmodernity’s Submarine Races
Pt. 1 of The Postmodern Logic Behind Emergent Calvinism Defining Postmodernity I first heard the submarine race joke before I was old enough to get it. I remember my grade school brain racing to try to figure out “where in … Continue reading
Options to Endure Suffering
and what is needed to sustain a liberal democracy. This follows the transcript of the video done by Nick Wolterstorff and Miroslav Volf. I thought the whole interview was terrific, but the part that really caught my imagination was the … Continue reading
So This is Water, The Water Is Joy
Wow, very impressive. I would like to deconstruct it a bit though. The thesis is that education affords one the choice to consider a more generous outlook on the banalities of modern urban existence. This is true and helpful. What’s … Continue reading →