Archive for June, 2005
As much as some of my cohorts in the religio-political arena rail against the destructive forces of uncritical acceptance of the Theory of Evolution, you would think they might be more careful to avoid the consequences of “survival of the fittest” themselves. Alas, what seems to happen in religious organizations is that people with […]
Why is it that I can’t get this Wilson-Phillips song out of my head? This is challenging my masculinity.
I know this pain
Why do lock yourself up in these chains?
No one can change your life except for you
Don’t ever let anyone step all over you
Just open your heart and your mind
Is it really fair to […]
I want Don Carson’s job. He gets to sit around all day and read and read and read. Then he puts it all together and speaks authoritatively to the leaders of the evangelical churches. Cool.
D.A. Carson has once again put his scholarly prowess with the pastoral heart to good use […]
More than two weeks and no posts from Jake? Madness!!!
I have just spent the last 90 minutes reading various articles on Men’s Health’s website. It’s not the kind of magazine I would have read a few years ago, but two different friends have recommended it to me recently, and there’s been a big […]
I am getting spammed on this site with unusual ferocity. Since the database can only take 5000 queries per hour, many hours each day the site is unusable. I am (slowly) removing old trackbacks and old comments.
George Marsden is an excellent historian. In his increasingly classic Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism: 1870-1925 he reveals a tale of biblical fidelity and cultural influence that gave rise to the movement that produced people like me – a fundamentalist, an evangelical, a conservative Christian, a crazed anti-scientific wackjob out […]