I came across this a while back and have been meaning to share it. Finding Waldo twice over at GenCon, when I wasn't even looking for Waldo, reminded me to do so. I found some minimal information about the illustration (which is by Josh Mecouch, a cartoonist for MAD Magazine), and the tweet by Saragh Adams that inspired it, here. Read more
I saw this image on Facebook recently: While some object that there aren’t really people who engage in scientism and reductionism, that it is a caricature, clearly whoever made this image thinks that love and oxytocin are equivalent in some respect – although what in fact the heart represents is itself open to discussion, I suppose. But at any rate, I do think that there is a danger to fail to do justice to different levels of reality. Understanding how... Read more
On a recent trip to Chicago, when I unfortunately found myself stuck in rush-hour traffic that would add more than an additional hour to my journey, I did what anyone in my situation would do. I pressed “play” on a Doctor Who audiobook. I had heard good things about the Eighth Doctor adventures from Big Finish. And so I started with “Storm Warning,” the first of those. I liked very much the character of the Doctor as depicted by Paul... Read more
An interesting video on income and wealth inequality from The Atlantic. HT Timothy Michael Law Read more
Today is the birthday of Rudolf Bultmann, a great New Testament scholar and thinker about the Christian faith. As with most great thinkers, he had ideas that have not stood the test of time. But so much of what he proposed is insightful that he is still very much worth reading. Conservatives have probably heard him criticized, and never read him for themselves, and so will not realize how much of every kind of New Testament scholarship and thinking about... Read more
Regular commenter Ian said the following, which made an important point clearly and succinctly, and so I wanted to share it. He wrote: Being shown in detail that you’re wrong is often confused for a personal attack. I have heard so many people, when presented with counter-evidence to their views, complained that the person criticizing their views was committing the ad hominem fallacy. The irony, of course, is that if you attempt to correct their understanding of the term ad... Read more
From PHD Comics. HT Ben Witherington Read more
I saw a news article today about the murder of Narendra Dabholkar in Pune, India. Dabholkar was an activist opposing superstition and blind faith. He was killed, not by a spell or a lightning bolt, but by human beings whose love of superstition of whatever sort did not give them supernatural power. They used technology, and illustrated the dangers in the sorts of irrational ways of thinking that Dabholkar opposed. We see the same sort of dangerous ideology at work... Read more
There are things which, when you are an inerrantist, never cross your mind, and yet when you cease to be one, you wonder how you could possibly have failed to think those thoughts, notice those things, and ask those questions. A case in point: the New Testament authors did not write as though they believed their writings to be inerrant. The case of the Gospel authors who rework and transform the Gospels which went before them is a fairly obvious... Read more
Menachem Wecker has written an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s “Vitae” online career hub, on when to decide to leave a job, drop a book project, or otherwise cut one’s losses and move on. Click through to read it. I get quoted in it! Read more
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