The Week-est Link, August 16, 2008: The Death of Death

August 16, 2008 By 1 Comment

1. Have you read J. I. Packer’s classic introduction to John Owen’s The Death of Death in the Death of Christ? If not, you should. It’s illuminating and expanding. (HT: Monergism) 2. The Southern Seminary fall chapel calendar is up. Note the Darrell Bock Gheens Lectures in early November. (HT: Blake White) 3. Interesting Mark [...]

Filed Under: barack obama, Bible, darrell bock, J.I. Packer, John McCain, john owen, Mark Driscoll, monergism, new york times, southern seminary 1 Comment

Maureen Dowd, a Catholic Priest, and Marriage: It’s Actually Pretty Helpful

July 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment

This post is, I mean. It’s entitled “An Ideal Husband” and it’s written by notable (and single) columnist Maureen Dowd and published in today’s New York Times. In the piece, Dowd cites at length the wisdom of a 79-year-old celibate Catholic priest who speaks annually to groups of schoolgirls on the subject of the ideal [...]

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New Trends in Education That Really Aren’t New

June 25, 2008 By 2 Comments

Everything new is old again. So is the case in certain American schools, which are overturning sacred modern educational ideology by re-instituting special classes for below-average students. In “Holding Back Young Students: Is Program a Gift or a Stigma?“, Winnie Hu briefly reports on this trend and shows how it is igniting a firestorm among [...]

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The New York Times on My Alma Mater’s Food: And You Thought People Chose Bowdoin for the Academics

April 10, 2008 By 2 Comments

Actually, title of this blog aside, most people have no idea what Bowdoin College is, let alone why anyone would choose to go to this tiny school in Maine. But I, fair friends, am here to attempt to correct this cruel imbalance of perception by the ultimate stroke of modern agency: blogging. The reason I [...]

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When a Lawsuit’s a Boy’s Only Hope: Billy Wolfe, Bullying, and the Results of a Peer-Based Culture

March 25, 2008 By 8 Comments

It’s not every day that you see a story about one boy being bullied without headlines accompanying headlines announcing a vicious death or a closeted homosexuality. Yesterday, though, the New York Times published just such a story. Dan Barry wrote the piece, entitled “A Boy the Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly”, as a sober, [...]

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The Sad Tale Of Eliot Spitzer, and What it Tells Us (and What it Doesn’t)

March 12, 2008 By 4 Comments

Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York, has resigned after it became public that he had hired prostitutes through a “high-end clientele” business. The story is sordid, and very sad for the people whom Mr. Spitzer has let down. This would include, significantly, his wife, and, not insignificantly, the state of New York. In looking [...]

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