Monthly Archives: June 2010

Pagan Christianity

[I've updated links on this 2008 posting] There are useful critiques of Viola & Barna’s 2008 book, Pagan Christianity, over on Ben Witherington’s blog. To quote a bit from the second posting (July 1, 2008): Small group gatherings are wonderful … Continue reading

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Sharing Bagels

A meal at Daniel’s place:

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She is Black; but She is Beautiful

Here’s the beginning of a lovely meditation on the Church, by Anthony Esolen: When Dante rises with his guide Beatrice to the circle of the lovers, symbolized in Paradise by the planet Venus, he is told that the most brilliant … Continue reading

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Why the News Makes Us Dumb

From First Things: What happens when you sell information on a daily basis? You have to make each day’s report seem important, and you do this primarily by reducing the importance of its context. What you are selling is change, … Continue reading

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The Age of Faith and Reason

From an article by Michael F. Flynn: To summarize briefly, the Latins believed that: The universe was rationally ordered because a single rational God had willed it into being, This order was knowable by autonomous human reason by ‘measuring, numbering, … Continue reading

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