A Wrinkle in Time and Other Books

Anne BoemlerJanuary 15, 2010

It’s always delightful to revisit books from my childhood. There is a security, a wholesomeness, in extremely good children’s books that can be matched by very ...

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“Believe” Is Not an Intransitive Verb

Nick NowalkJanuary 13, 2010

“Faith is being exalted so high today that men are being satisfied with any kind of faith, just so it is faith. It makes no difference what is believed, we are ...

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Reason & Faith I: Overcoming Disconfirmation Bias

Jordan GandhiJanuary 11, 2010

One of my favorite passages from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity is his first chapter on Faith, which has gotten me through many of my doubting periods. One of my...

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Heaven and Hell at the Louvre

Anne BoemlerJanuary 8, 2010

One of the luxuries of winter break is having time to go to museums. Yesterday, I saw an exhibit of masterpieces borrowed from the Louvre. The two works that st...

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Atheistic Moral Realism?

J. Joseph PorterJanuary 7, 2010

Via exapologist, a paper by philosopher Erik J. Wielenberg which is essentially a response to various theistic criticisms of atheistic moral realism (or, more...

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Generate Love

Roshni PatelJanuary 6, 2010

“Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be. Remind me that my days are numbered—
how fleeting my life is. You have made my life no longer than the widt...

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Story and Authority

Nick NowalkJanuary 4, 2010

Over the holidays I sat down to read through George Lindbeck’s justly famous The Nature of Doctrine, published in 1984.  Rarely can I remember a book stirring u...

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On College Christian Ecumenism

Samir PaulJanuary 4, 2010

Let me preface these thoughts by saying that I came back to Christian faith in a college Christian community and have been shown intense love over the past few ...

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A New Year’s Resolution

Anne BoemlerJanuary 1, 2010

Be thankful. Three days ago I went snowshoeing in the woods of northern Minnesota, where our family has a cabin on an island. We went out through the fresh dri...

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Christianity Disentangled

Jordan GandhiDecember 28, 2009

A few weeks ago, I finished an incredibly long-take home final for one of my favorite classes: the Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics with Professor Ned Hall (I hi...

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