Monthly Archives: January 2011

Mobile Upgrade

Readers who use mobile phones to access this blog will notice a significant upgrade as of this morning—easier to read, easier to navigate, easier to comment.

January 15, 2011 – 9:12 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Unfiled | Comments (1)

New in 2010: Attempts at Honesty

This entry is part 7 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. There’s something really refreshing about the Attempts at Honesty blog. For one thing, it has a virtue I’ve never been able to lay hold of here: brevity. That’s a good thing, but it’s …

January 15, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (2)

New in 2010: Answering Mormons

This entry is part 6 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. I’ve never involved myself much in counter-cult apologetics, but I appreciate those who do. Jamie Pellew is one of them. He grew up surrounded by Mormonism, and since last May he has been …

January 14, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Religions | Comments (5)

New In 2010: Noumenal Society of Apologetics

This entry is part 5 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. I was fascinated by Adrian’s account of a meeting with pagans at Long Beach Community College on the Noumenal Society of Apologetics blog. He (I assume Adrian is a he) said, “Truth is …

January 13, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (4)

Bandsaw Magic

Totally off topic. Totally stunning, too:

January 12, 2011 – 6:25 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Comments Off

Benjamin Wiker’s *Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists*

Book Review The book is titled Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists, but it’s really the continuing and very contemporary account of centuries of contentious struggle between two “rival moral universes [that] have nothing in common” (page 311).  The Western world’s moral battles are not just differences of preference or opinion. They are the result …

January 12, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, Thinking Christianly | Comments (3)

“Apple Takes a Stand Against Anti-Gay Extremism, Not Against Christianity”

So here is the way change.org spins Apple’s latest decision on the Manhattan Declaration app: Turns out that Apple isn’t anti-Christian. They just don’t like seeing hatred peddled under the label of Christianity. [From Apple Takes a Stand Against Anti-Gay Extremism, Not Against Christianity | Gay Rights | Change.org] In other words, Apple knows what …

January 11, 2011 – 2:31 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Comments (1)