Monthly Archives: September 2011

To Be a Non-Person

Can you identify the context of this passage? To have a persona [to be a person] was to have a face before the law—which is to say, to be recognized as one possessing rights and privileges before a court, or as being able to give testimony upon the strength of one’s own word, or simply …

September 13, 2011 – 8:47 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged | Comments (4)

9/11: “Full Cognitive Meltdown” – Lessons and Fallout

Not long before 9/11 I was part of a group visiting The King’s College in New York, where the school’s leaders gave each of us a coffee cup as a small memento of our time there. It’s come to have special significance for me, as it features the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on it. …

September 10, 2011 – 10:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (8)

“Truth vs. ‘Truth’”

My September Worldview and You column is up now at BreakPoint. It’s on Truth vs. “truths,” including: Possibly the most insidious of all these “truths” is the one that says truths don’t conflict: that we can all live happily together with our various ideas of truth, that it’s impolite to suppose that any of us …

September 6, 2011 – 4:30 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , | Comments Off

And a little child shall lead them?

On a New Jersey school district’s summer reading list for middle and high school: one book depicting lesbian statutory rape, and another depicting a drug-fueled homosexual orgy. How did that happen? Call it the record-setting worst excuse ever for a bad policy! Chuck Earling, superintendent of Monroe Township Schools in Williamstown, N.J., told Fox News …

September 6, 2011 – 7:21 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

Practice What He Preached?

The other day I was stopped behind this car at a traffic light near home, and noticed a bumper sticker on it that I had never seen before. It had Jesus’ face on it along with symbols from 15 different religions, and it read, “Practice what he preached.” I was so intrigued I snapped this …

September 5, 2011 – 2:07 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (14)

British Humanists Run Away!

Be sure to watch all the way to the end! Hat Tip to Glenn Peoples

September 4, 2011 – 7:11 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Comments (1)

The Materialist As “A Kind of Childishly Complacent Fundamentalist”

I’m reading David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. I’ll post a review of it before long, but I suggest you not waste time waiting for me to do that. This is one of the best books I’ve read in years. Here’s a taste of it, and a topic for …

September 4, 2011 – 1:21 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)

Book Review: A Queer Thing Happened To America

Book Review A Queer Thing Happened to America: And What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been by Michael L. Brown. Let’s get straight to the point. Michael Brown has written a lengthy book on seamy practices in the “gay rights” movement. That means he must be (a) a raving homophobic fundamentalist, (b) an important contributor …

September 1, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (26)