One Root of Our Problems; No, Two Roots
John Brockman, Publisher and Editor of the influential science-oriented website Edge, wrote this week: What I wrote in 1991 in "The Emerging Third Culture", still pertains today: A 1950s education in Freud, Marx, and modernism is not a sufficient qualification ...
Paul’s Ponderings
From Paul's Ponderings, a reminder for me of why we have discussions like we do here. It's not for the sake of argument but for the sake of life; and it's not because Christians are smarter of better than anyone ...
Can You Become a Better Person?
(Update 12/31/07: This blog entry presents a philosophical position on ethics. If you landed here because you desire really to become a better person, I suggest you try this blog entry instead.) Is it possible to become a better person: ...
Death Threats and a Student Assaulted at Princeton (Maybe)
FIRST THINGS is reporting the story of death threats and an assault on a conservative professor and five students at Princeton University who are also religious and social conservatives. The professor, Robert George, is a contributor to First Things. There ...
Dog Stained Glass Clocks
Our family was gathered in the kitchen/dining area of our home, doing some general cleanup. The others became quite concerned when they heard me cry out, "This is just awful!" I was looking at this ad, which came with this ...
Touchstone Magazine
Magazine Review In about two or three months Touchstone Magazine will be printing my review of The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case For the Existence of the Soul, by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O'Leary. I was a subscriber to the ...
Dr. Phineas Waldolf Steel™: Saner Than He Looks?
[Update: welcome to my visitors from Encyclopedia Dramatica. I know you're checking out this blog because someone there thinks I'm taking Dr. Steel way too seriously. Hey, how about giving me a break, and not take me too seriously yourself! ...
Compass Fading
From Kicking at the Darkness: I’m chasing the mystery. That's a healthy response to The Golden Compass, from a blogger who finds the movie's Magisterium more reminiscent of the New Atheist authors ("who discourage and deride any and every exploration ...
The Other Side of Christianity
Phillip Pullman's take on the Church is unremittingly, unrelentingly negative; so much so that it seems that even for a nonbeliever, such a one-dimensional view would be boring at best. It goes beyond caricature. This evening I'll be leading the ...
Not Another!
2 Shootings in Colorado at Christian Sites - New York Times: A gunman killed two people at a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, and hours later four people ...