Since I’m now stationed at SBTS-Nashville and am something of a NASCAR fan (my enthusiasm dating back to my grad school days, when I would watch Richard Petty, David Pearson, and Bobby Allison at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway and yet others such as Bobby Isaacs, Elmo Langley, and Darrell Waltrip at the Talladega tri-oval), I thought […]
The “princess atheists” are at it again, attacking affronts to their sensitivities. (You remember the fairy tale of the princess and the pea. They knew she was the real, delicate thing when a tiny garden pea placed under a stack of mattresses still gave her a backache in the morning.) These are the people who
Maybe the IMF’s Dominique Strauss-Kahn thought he was wearing the Ring of Gyges, a mythical piece of jewelry which allows the wearer to become invisible. It shows up in Plato’s Republic, where Socrates posed the question whether the owner could behave himself. His interlocutor, Glaucon, suggested that, once invisible, few could resist stealing things, taking
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As a philosopher, I find it a little embarrassing that the only two direct Bible references to my discipline are sort of negative. First, there’s Colossians 2:8: “Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based
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The other day, the BibleMesh team received a photograph of a banner bearing our trademark motto, “One God. One Book. One Story,” along with “2011 The Year of the Bible.” It was hanging on a church fence in the UK and, no doubt, was doing some good, lifting up the Bible and its unity around
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The headline in London’s Telegraph declares, “Archbishop backs William and Kate’s decision to live together.” The article goes on to explain that Dr. John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, the “second most senior cleric in the Church of England,” takes a casual approach to pre-marital co-habitation, having seen a great deal of it as a “vicar
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