Monthly Archives: May 2011

Camping’s Crime: Turning Judgment Day Into Entertainment

The great thing about horror movies is that no matter how awful things look, no matter how terrified we feel, we know with absolute 100% certainty that everything will be perfectly fine in the end. I’m not talking about the movie plot: there’s no guarantee on that. I’m talking about ourselves as the viewers. We …

May 21, 2011 – 6:18 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Religions, The Faith | Comments (3)

“Why Churches Should Stop Performing Marriages”

Via Kim Moreland: No wonder that many in our culture imagine that a “marriage” could be between people of the same sex. If marriage is all about individual preference, why not define it however you want? It it’s just about two people making a temporary agreement, then why should consenting adults not be allowed to …

May 20, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Comments (12)

“Earliest mammals sniffed their way to smarts – Yahoo! News”

What do you make of an opening line like this? The unusually large brains of mammals apparently didn’t evolve so that we could ponder philosophy — but so we could sniff our way to success. A new analysis of some of the earliest mammals and mammal-like creatures shows their complex brains evolved in stages, starting …

May 19, 2011 – 4:48 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged | Comments (10)

“Gay columnist: ‘let’s face it, we want to indoctrinate children’”

Via Pearcey Report: While gay activists usually deny that they want to indoctrinate children, said Villarreal, “let’s face it—that’s a lie.” “We want educators to teach future generations of children to accept queer sexuality. In fact, our very future depends on it,” he wrote. Villarreal pointed to the tactics of a gay activist group FCKH8, …

May 19, 2011 – 10:28 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Comments (4)

Harder to Come Out As Christian Than Gay

From God and Mammon in London » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog: “It’s often harder for young people [in London] to come out as Christians than it would be for them to come out as gay,” she says. “Because of the vocal atheists – Dawkins and so on – people think your judgement …

May 19, 2011 – 10:24 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (4)

The Ehrman Project

I love this: The Ehrman Project. Short promo video: It’s Campus Crusade for Christ, UNC-Chapel Hill’s response to the infamous professor’s popularized attempts to tear apart the New Testament. It features scholarly responses on video to Ehrman’s major works. (His newest, Forged, does not appear to have a response posted there yet. I’m confident it …

May 19, 2011 – 7:08 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, New Atheism | Comments (7)

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“AlbertMohler.com – The End is Near? The False Teaching of Harold Camping”

Albert Mohler on Harold Camping: The church is not to be arrogantly setting dates, but instead to be eagerly waiting for him. Of that we can be truly certain. [From AlbertMohler.com – The End is Near? The False Teaching of Harold Camping]

May 17, 2011 – 10:34 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments Off