Bottom Line: Much as I love gaming, I personally cannot justify playing Grand Theft Auto. This post is an attempt to get people who will thoughtlessly pick up this game to at least consider whether it is a good idea to play. I understand the desire to play, but cannot make it work for me. Here I rehearse my (initial) thoughts to provoke conversation. I am of course willing to ...
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Lots of Americans don't like Evangelicals, especially in the academy. That is sad, since much of the dislike is based on falsehoods and irrational prejudice.
Some people cannot disagree without hate. Thank goodness that the millions of Evangelicals in the United States can see their deeply held beliefs mocked without reacting with the violence so common to many communities....
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As Light prepares to dawn, at long last, for Christians with windows facing East in the many mansions of God's house, my mind turns from politics, pop culture, and even Plato to better and more beautiful things.
Last night while returning from church our family was totally quiet all the way home. You have to know us to realize how rare this is. Any gathering of Reynolds in a...
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Bottom Line:
If Senator Obama is part of a new elite that assumes all thoughtful and good people, fit to rule, are SLAG (secular, liberal, and globalist), then he will lose this election.
Argument:
Of late, Senator Obama has been accused of being an elitist. He may be an elitist, but if so he is one in the painful sense of one trying to "make it" from outsider roots...
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From Torrey alum and Scriptorium Politics editor Rachel Motte:
There's still time to get your essay in for the Evangelical Outpost/Wheatstone Academy blog symposium. Read about it here.
There are some pretty amazing prizes available, so you don't want to miss this. We're asking for blog posts on the following question:
If the medium affects the message, how will th...
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My family home schools. That means computers are necessary and everyone in the family has their own. I have been running a home network of seven computers for the last five years. It has been a nightmare job.
One day I noticed that my personal Mac was never causing me troubles. It was older and slow, but always doing its job. Once a hard drive crashed, but I had backups (whi...
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Yes, I know.
My favorite movie is a black and white silent film on Joan of Arc. My daughter is (sort of) named after a character in a John Wayne movie. I cried when Spock died. I am convinced of the greatness of a sort-of-science-fiction film made in the Soviet Union which features a seemingly endless and probably pointless ride in a taxi. Black and white films about icon w...
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I have written two plays for my kids to perform based on the sinking of the Titanic, surely a strange parenting technique, and have been interested in the doomed liner most of my life. One of the plays will be performed this weekend, so if you are near Biola, you can get my take on what the sinking of Titanic meant.
For the rest of the cosmos, including the better looking, b...
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From my frequent email friend the Rev. Dale Owens:
I finished reading everything posted on the Internet yesterday.
Of course, one cannot read literally everything on the Internet! In order to make the task manageable for the afternoon designated, I decided to limit myself to things written in English. I apologize if this review is, therefore, English-centered, written in ...
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Joe Carter is a great writer, a good man, and a fine American. He could beat me up without noticing the effort.
He is Red Bull in the blogosphere to my Skim Milk.
He is, in all probability, more influential than Senator Tom Coburn.
He is an omnivorous reader with the sense to enjoy both pop and "high" culture. On a good day, Joe Carter shows why blogging should be take...
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Today marks the defeat of General Robert E. Lee to U.S. Grant. Lee was a gentleman and there is much to admire about him. One of those things is not the cause he used his massive intelligence to defend.
The great rebellion against the Republic was effectively crushed by Mr. Lincoln today and the world was a better place. The Civil War was a just war that ended a great evil a...
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I am often asked for a few fairly-easy to read books that would give a traditional Christian insight into how to do cultural analysis or "cultural apologetics" of the sort pioneered by Francis Schaeffer.
Since some of Schaeffer's heirs are coy about their support for both the traditional Christianity and the culture of life he defended, it falls on the rest of us to give wh...
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Learning from your friends is one of the joys of life.
Good friends present alternative ways of doing things that challenge our own ideas. Our Wii- centered household must accept friends that have succumbed to the expensive and brutal delights of the Playstation, though we beg owners of the X-Box not to tell us so our friendship can remain intact.
Having more than Faceboo...
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