Monthly Archives: January 2011

New in 2010: Sarcastic Xtian

This entry is part 11 of 14 in the series New in 2010

I’m featuring some selected new Christian blogs from 2010, which were submitted in response to an invitation last month. I suppose the first question about the Sarcastic Christian blog is bound to be, why the name? Why be sarcastic? J. Scott Smith’s answer to that question ends with, I believe there are things worth getting …

January 20, 2011 – 12:09 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (2)

Shoulder Surgery Update

Thank you to several of you who have asked about my shoulder surgery. I saw the surgeon the other day, and he said it looked like the surgery worked, and I’m recovering quicker than expected. Complete recovery will take 6-8 weeks, and so far it’s certainly not feeling cured. Shoulder surgery is famous for being …

January 19, 2011 – 12:45 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments Off

Sam Harris: Where Reason Fails, Resort To Dogma

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Sam Harris's Moral Landscape

Book Review My reaction to Sam Harris’s latest book has progressed from “painful” to “alarming”—alarming for what Sam Harris is doing to himself, and what he proposes for the rest of us. How, for example, does one explain a paragraph like this from one who claims to champion rationality? This does not mean, of course, …

January 19, 2011 – 9:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (7)

New in 2010: No Apologies Allowed

This entry is part 10 of 14 in the series New in 2010

I’m featuring some selected new Christian blogs from 2010, proceeding in random order with precedence given to ones that were submitted earlier. From the sublime to the … marvelous. Yesterday’s “New in 2010″ post featured one kind of artist, and today’s features another. It’s No Apologies Allowed, “Weekly apologetics cartoons and quotes for the faithful, …

January 19, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, The Faith | Comments Off

New in 2010: Words of Wisdom

This entry is part 9 of 14 in the series New in 2010

I’m featuring some selected new Christian blogs from 2010, proceeding in random order with precedence given to ones that were submitted earlier. The one thing I’m not sure of regarding the Words of Wisdom blog is its title. It’s not that there’s anything lacking in wisdom there. Rather it is that the artist who runs …

January 18, 2011 – 10:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, The Faith | Comments (1)

Watching Sam Harris Hurt Himself

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Sam Harris's Moral Landscape

Book Review I’m not sure which is more painful: seeing a brilliant intellect like Sam Harris be so deceived, or knowing how surely he is deceiving others. Either way I grieve. So far I’ve only read the introduction to his recent best-seller The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, but that’s enough to …

January 17, 2011 – 3:32 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (9)

Reposted: Christianity and the Abolitionist Movement

In recognition of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, a question: What was at the root of Dr. King’s methods and motivations? Would he be heard today? And a reposted discussion on the end of slavery in America: Randy Hardaman presents a brief yet extensively footnoted outline of Christianity’s place in the American abolition movement. His …

January 17, 2011 – 6:29 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change | Comments Off

(Sort of) New in 2010: Missiologist.com

This entry is part 8 of 14 in the series New in 2010

Missiologist.com started up in 2008, but only just barely; it didn’t really get rolling until early last year. I’m not being legalistic about these “New in 2010″ blog features, so I don’t mind including it. Today is a good day for it, since the author, M.V. Walker, is kicking off a discussion today with Ed …

January 17, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (1)