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Thursday, February 25, 2010

"Groupthink" 2010 style

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Writing in the winter issue of God's Revivalist and Bible Advocate , Kenneth Farmer finds striking similarities between Orwell's ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Jerry Bridges on "Gospel-Driven Sanctification"

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The problem: As I see it, the Christian community is largely a performance-based culture today. And the more deeply committed we are to foll...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Back at you, Dick

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Yesterday on Meet the Press Gen. David Petraeus argued against the "enhanced interrogation techniques" a/k/a torture that continue...
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Augustine: facing the wrong way

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And what did it profit me that I could read and understand for myself all the books I could get in the so-called 'liberal arts', whe...
Saturday, February 20, 2010

Sean, Tiger and atonement

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The ideas of sin and guilt before God are rapidly becoming alien concepts to contemporary Western society. Most Americans or Europeans don...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Humility and moral seriousness: requirements for knowing God

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To whet my appetite for this Sunday's meeting of the Socrates Cafe of West Palm Beach (you're all invited!) I've been revisitin...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Remembering Gene

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Gene Siskel died eleven years ago, in February 1999, from a brain tumor. He was fifty-three years old. He had suffered terrible headaches in...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

God's faithfulness in the details

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The Old Testament Book of Joshua has some of the most exciting action narratives in the Bible, but it has a lot of boring parts too. In fact...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

The Misfit's theology of crisis

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"Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He thown every...
Friday, February 12, 2010

Revisiting the "long take"

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A while back on Friday is for film I wrote about the long take , and included one of my favorite examples from Robert Altman's The Playe...
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