The commenter known as “Pete” has a picture that looks like a little kid, but he’s really a distinguished physician. He’s also among the top two Bob Dylan aficionados that I have ever known (the other being a good friend and former colleague). Pete went
A parable/thought experiment from the Hungarian writer Útmutató a Léleknek: In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here
In the early days of the Republic, Baptists supported Thomas Jefferson, even though he was not a Christian. Why? Because he supported religious freedom. Russell Moore says that Christians today need to develop that same mindset in their political activism today. He says that THE
Some smart people, from Bill Gates to Stephen Hawkings, have been raising the alarm that computers might get so intelligent that they could conquer the human race. But artificial intelligence specialist David W. Buchanan explains why this isn’t something we need to worry about, saying
At the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama asserted the moral equivalence of Christianity and radical Islam. Read what he said after the jump and consider: Though Christianity too has violence in its history, what is wrong with what he says? (more…)
Annie Holmquist compares a middle school reading list from 1908 to one from today. It isn’t just that the latter is dumbed down in comparison, though it is. She goes on to analyze the content of what is taught in these two sets of books
“Orthodoxy” means “right belief.” Now there is a new word, “orthorexia,” meaning “right eating.” The National Eating Disorders Association defines it as “fixation on righteous eating.” (more…)
Archaeologists have discovered and translated a trove of tablets from Iraq that were written by Jews exiled in Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon. (more…)
Democrats are reviving the notion that “conservatives are anti-science!” But what about the anti-science stance of liberals when it comes to abortion, genetically-modified foods, fracking, and environmental apocalypse? And did you know that far more Democrats than Republicans believe in astrology, flying saucers, fortune telling,
Literary scholar Karen Swallow Prior is kind enough to credit me for mentoring her through graduate school. I’m proud to see that she has become a “public intellectual,” writing regularly for both Christianity Today and The Atlantic. You have got to read her essay about
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