Apologetics
All Hail the Free Market
Phillip Adams | November 18, 2008 THE pile of corporate corpses grows ever higher. First came those carnivores of cash: greedy buggers who choked on their meals of money. Now major manufacturers are in the morgue while others, on their death beds, are pleading for transfusions from the taxpayer. But only some are victims of […]
So Is ‘Big Government’ all bad?
Tenets of the Catechism Harry T. Cook 12/05/08 Thanks to my daughter who keeps track of such things on her MacBook, I saw over the holiday weekend a reprise of the Sarah Palin-turkey farm interview. Not only were viewers treated to the bloodletting of seasonal fowl bound for Alaskan Thanksgiving dinner tables, but to more […]
A Summary of Rural Issues Raised by the Drought
From the Barham Baptist church Basic Premises: * The small family farm remains the best future for the sustainability of rural life * Australia needs to maintain a viable agricultural industry * Rural Australia needs healthy and functional small rural communities to support the agricultural industry and maintain our rural areas * Government action needs […]
Deconstructing Theodicy: Why Job Has Nothing to Say
December 02, 2008 Deconstructing Theodicy: Why Job Has Nothing to Say to the Puzzle of Suffering reviewed by Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio Deconstructing Theodicy: Why Job Has Nothing to Say to the Puzzle of Suffering by David B. Burrell Though Burrell’s short treatise is philosophically dense, it is a smorgasbord, an exemplar for interdisciplinary discussion. click […]
Debating the origin of evil in a godly universe
Michael Dirda on ‘The Best of All Possible Worlds’ Debating the origin of evil in a godly universe. THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil This Story * Jonathan Yardley on ‘The Man Who Invented Christmas’ * Michael Dirda on ‘The Best of All Possible Worlds’ By Steven Nadler […]
New essays in islam-watch
I don’t usually include Islam-watch items, but here’s a resource for those inclined in this general direction, in line with our policy of including varying points of view on important issues: Muslim Brothers of Indian Subcontinent: It’s Time for Homecoming, Part II – Radhasyam Brahmachari Lessons from the Jihadi Massacre in Mumbai – Abul Kasem […]
Opinions on the Financial Crisis
Sightings *12/1/08 — Martin E. Marty Last week we sighted post-election themes in the conservative religious magazine *World*. This week, we do the same in a liberal opinion journal, the doughty and durable *Sojourners *(December). Its focus is less on the aftermath of the election and more on “The Financial Crisis,” which the post-election nation […]
Politics and Inerrancy
*Sightings* 11/24/08 — Martin E. Marty “From a perspective committed to the Bible as the inerrant Word of God,” the biweekly glossy *World* (November 15/22) asks at almost issue-length what went wrong with the Republicans in the recent elections. To the editors’ credit, they do not spend much space in a blame game on what […]
Accredited Creation Scientists
The number of accredited Creationist Scientists, arguing from their accredited domains, is minuscule… If they were to receive an amount of time in the classroom proportional to their representation, they would barely get a sentence of mention. For example, I previously showed, that of the 15,000 professional astronomers world wide, none are Creation Scientists, not […]
Violence and passivity
I think of the two extremes that are operating here as violence and passivity (I still think some people have nonviolence in the passivity category despite my repeated emphasis that it is not). I think nonviolence IS the middle ground. Like violence it is an active force, but like passivity it doesn’t seek to hurt […]
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