Monthly Archives: December 2011

2011 Highlights

The Thinking Christian blog ends the year ranked at number 20 among religion blogs on the Internet, and number 73 among all blogs in the “Living” category, according to the premier ranking service Technorati. Those rankings bounce around a lot, based on who has linked here recently. Without your encouragement as readers, I never would …

December 31, 2011 – 8:15 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun, Miscellanea | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Comment Spam Poetry

Today in the comment spam quarantine I found this treat: I’ve discovered an exceptional will become even quicker as opposed to I did so your regular way. Maybe this is the kind of thing only a writer could love, but try reading it aloud. It has a rhythm to it. For best effect you need …

December 29, 2011 – 7:38 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged | Comments (1)

It Must Be Christmas: I Agree With Jerry Coyne!

I’ve been quite critical of University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne on more than one occasion, so I was quite surprised to find myself nodding in agreement with him today on a religion-related topic. He opened up this blog post saying, There’s a pretty dreadful piece by Tim Padgett in the latest online Time Magazine (I’m …

December 23, 2011 – 6:16 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Postmodernism/ Relativism, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Still looking for new Christian blogs to feature!

Here’s a reminder of something I wrote a couple weeks ago: Second Annual New Christian Blogs Feature: As I did last year, I’d like to feature several new Christian blogs that were begun this year. I don’t know of any list of new blogs, so I’m inviting bloggers to leave a comment here with a …

December 23, 2011 – 12:13 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Tagged | Comments (15)

A Christmas Reflection: Incarnation, Mission, and Worldview

Here’s a completely different kind of Christmas reflection for you: my BreakPoint column, Incarnation, Mission, and Worldview. It begins, It was about a dozen years ago that our church’s pastor came back from a pastors’ conference and told us our denomination was growing rapidly everywhere in the world except North America. We were shrinking here, …

December 22, 2011 – 3:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Deep Social Change, Service, The Faith, Thinking Christianly, Worldviews | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

Dawkins’ Principled Stand Against Most Forms of Genocide

Two Recent Headlines: Source 1      Source 2 Maybe Richard Dawkins would say that destroying Christianity is not like killing off a nation, morally speaking. If so, then he is blind to historical and geopolitical realities. Here’s what the Rev. George Pitcher said about it. You’ll find it in the second source article: But one of these …

December 20, 2011 – 10:02 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (34)