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Then Genesis 2 Told Me I Didn’t Hate Women

Posted in Culture, Literature, religion on Apr 18th, 2008

I have a new article up at Radiant Magazine. You can read it here.

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Update to King James English Post

Posted in Literature, religion on Jan 20th, 2008

Some of you may remember that I wrote a short post on King James English a little while back. I asked to be informed if anyone caught a mistake on my part. And Mike from Berean Research Institute caught a big one.
I mistakenly listed the second person plural subject form of “you” as “you.” It [...]

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Is Capitalism New?

Posted in Economics on Nov 28th, 2007

I keep encountering very intelligent people who claim that Capitalism is a recent phenomenon. Which I find interesting.
How is it possible that people only recently (let’s say, since the founding of America) noticed that money was attractive, and became tempted to build their lives around it?
(After all: “Capitalism” = “Capital-ism,” “Money-ism.” Right? Like “progressivism” [...]

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A Quick Lesson in King James English

Posted in Culture, religion on Nov 16th, 2007

Silly Me just commented on my post below using King James English. It reminded me that I’ve been wanting to correct some common misunderstandings of KJE (not that she made any. It just reminded me). So here’s a short tutorial. (Make sure to correct me if you find any mistakes :-)
Pronouns
First Person
Same as current English
Second [...]

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Powerful Women

Posted in Archeology, Bible, politics on Nov 9th, 2007

Time posted an ode to Hillary by Joe Klein yesterday. It’s title? “What Hillary Stands For.”
I was very interested to see what in fact Hillary does stand for, given my recent ponderings on leadership. The best I can gather from Klein’s piece is that Hillary stands for “pragmatism,” and “Getting stuff done.”
As opposed to “ideologues.”
The [...]

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Nice Christians

Posted in Ethics, Philosophy, politics, religion on Nov 7th, 2007

The Christian Science Monitor has a long piece on conservative Mike Huckabee’s progressive stances on being nice to people. Which is nice.
Time has a shorter piece on how Christians are starting to be nice about divorce. It’s one of those things where a writer expresses shock about how strict other people are. (Which means he’s [...]

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The Problem of Evil and Mormonism

Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2007

Mormons and evangelicals are or aren’t both Christians. We were wondering about that this morning, right? And whether the two groups share the same values and doctrines.
And before that, I said the Problem of Evil was one of the Philosophical Issues surrounding Creationism.
And I happen to have something to say about Mormonism and the Problem [...]

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