Tag Archives: Worth Reading

“Extremism in Defense of Equality”

All ideas have consequences. But the worst ideas usually have consequences for someone else. That’s from Mike Adams,  writing today on extremism in defense of equality. There’s much insight in this article, along with a healthy dose of Mike’s usual wry wit.

February 8, 2012 – 12:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Worth Reading | Tagged , , | Comments (25)

New Blogs in 2011: The Point

Here’s another of my favorite new Christian blogs from 2011. Like the last one I featured, I have a personal friendship connection to this one. In this case, though, it’s a group blog with several friends involved: The Point, with John Stonestreet. Amy Hall Brett Kunkle Chris Horst John Stonestreet Jonathan Morrow Mary Jo Sharp …

February 1, 2012 – 3:07 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea, Worth Reading | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

New Blogs in 2011: Reasons for God

It is a distinct privilege to be able to feature great new Christian blogs, as I’m doing now for the second year in a row. It’s even more of a pleasure when one of those great new blogs is written by a friend. I met Carson Weitnauer through a mutual friend who knew we both …

January 27, 2012 – 11:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Thinking Christianly, Worth Reading | Tagged | Comments (1)

Where experts gather to criticize

Something to think about: Wherever experts gather to hurl opprobrium, in other words, has often been precisely where a newly discerned truth is emerging. [From Image ◊ Good Letters: The IMAGE Blog ◊ Offending the Experts]

January 26, 2012 – 6:50 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Worth Reading | Tagged | Comments (0)

Brand New Blog You Should Know About

My friend Paul Gould, a Ph.D. philosopher who works with college faculty and students through Faculty Commons, has started a new blog. It’s a great design, and he’s an outstanding thinker. Check it out!

January 26, 2012 – 10:18 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Worth Reading | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Second Annual “New Christian Blogs” Feature

It’s finally time to begin my second annual “New Christian Blogs” feature. I had thought I would start this a couple weeks ago, but better late than never, as they say. These are all Christian blogs that began in 2011. Today I’m going to share the list of blogs that came my way through requests …

January 25, 2012 – 9:34 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea, Worth Reading | Tagged , | Comments (3)

“Engage the Culture, Pastor, If You Dare: Part 1 of 3″

The easiest approach is to remain aloof from the culture and condemn it. [From Engage the Culture, Pastor, If You Dare: Part 1 of 3] The easiest approach is rarely the right approach.

January 23, 2012 – 9:24 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Thinking Christianly, Worth Reading | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

“Is it still wrong if another culture says it is right? A teacher’s surprising discovery”

Denyse O’Leary writes: In “Moments of startling clarity: Moral education programming in Ontario today,”* Dr. Stephen L. Anderson recounts what happened when he tried to show students what can happen to women in a culture with no tradition of treating women as if they were fellow human beings with men…. They became confused. They seemed …

December 4, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Worth Reading | Tagged , | Comments (65)

Happy Belated Pre-Thanksgiving!

It’s the belated pre-Thanksgiving Christian Carnival, at Ichthus77.

November 27, 2011 – 8:48 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Worth Reading | Tagged | Comments (0)

“So You Would Give Me Joy? Then I Refuse”

From Holly Ordway, a sonnet on hell, beginning: Hell is not too small a space for me. You offer more, but I won’t pay the cost. I have what’s mine for all eternity: I have myself, whatever else I’ve lost. So you would give me joy? Then I refuse… [From The Problem of Pain Sonnet …

November 16, 2011 – 8:39 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, The Faith, Worldviews, Worth Reading | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)