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March 12, 2015
New Testament 102
Matthew 10:34-36 Luke 12:51-53 The fruit of the Gospel is peace. But the simple fact is that encounters between Zion and Babylon are often accompanied by friction — and that, unless and until one or the other surrenders, this is likely to continue. And Zion won’t surrender. That said, we must do all [Read More...]
“Apostasy in Saudi Arabia and Utah”
The eminent Austrian-born American sociologist Peter Berger takes a (somewhat curious) look: http://www.the-american-interest.com/...
America’s first lesbian “throuple”!
Colbert, of course, thinks it’s a joke, and yucks it up to the max before his fawning and uncritical audience, who’re no doubt eager to be seen as thoroughly au courant and not to be regarded as narrow-minded provincial rubes. He implicitly suggests that anybody who might regard this kind of thing as [Read More...]
“Do we pay too much attention to radical Islam?”
For all my concern about the evils of radical Islam, including the metastasizing nihilistic death cult calling itself the “Islamic State” — ISIS now has affiliates and imitators in Libya, from which it’s fantasizing about an assault on Rome, as well as in Syria and Iraq, and there are reports that the murderous [Read More...]
Slippery Slope Installment 7346:, or, O Brave New World!
In which elements of the United Methodist Church in Alabama (!) abandon even the pretext of a traditional Christian sexual ethic, now that marriage is being redefined: http://juicyecumenism.com/2015/03/10/...
March 11, 2015
“Copernicus and the Church: What the History Books Don’t Say”
Was Copernicus an enemy of the Catholic Church? Did the Catholic Church hate and fear his model of the Solar System? Revisit an important element of the mythology of the permanent war between religion and science: http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2...
Science as an impetus to religion?
“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defense against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see. ” The senior devil Screwtape, in C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Thanks to Anne Palmieri for reminding me of this [Read More...]
Disease and intelligence
“The speed of the human brain’s expansion is one of the most remarkable phenomena in evolutionary history,” says an article entitled “A faustian bargain” in the current issue of the Economist. “It has tripled in volume in less than 4m years.” The article reports on cell-biological research in Italy, Germany, and the [Read More...]
New Testament 101
Matthew 10:26-33 Luke 12:2-9 Compare Mark 4:22; 8:38; Luke 8:17; 9:26 This is an exhortation to absolutely fearless discipleship. Even those who can kill the body have no real power over the followers of Christ, who should, rather, fear spiritual death or damage to their souls. They — we — [Read More...]
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