Archive for December, 2007
Protestant Knee-Jerking
Philip Meade is a great blogging buddy over at The Beast’s Lair whom I’ve enjoyed reading for quite some time. Currently, I believe, he is a student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY whose president, by the way, Albert Mohler, is an active blogger himself. See here for President Mohler’s [...]
Tale of Two Christmases
In America today, there really are two distinct holidays celebrated on and around December 25th. Both celebrations are called “Christmas.” One is a cultural celebration while the other is religious. These are not necessarily mutually exclusive although it seems common for people to observe one and not the other.
See the seminary blog [...]
NEW Seminary Blog!!
Hey, check this out! The Admission Department of Concordia Theological Seminary-Fort Wayne, IN now has a blog. Here it is. It’s called Concordia TheoBLOGical Seminary. Cute, eh? Please come by and say howdy to me and the gang. And check back often too because we plan to post daily.
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Eastern Promises: Violence and Horror in Film
Eastern Promises is the latest film directed by David Cronenberg and stars Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
Cronenberg has a bizarre repertoire of films with a flair for the grotesque. Not only are his movies often graphically violent, but they serve as veritable meditations on the effects of violence, both emotionally and bodily. [...]
How Do Atheists Celebrate Christmas?
How do atheists celebrate Christmas? That’s the question posed by the always articulate Dinesh D’souza here.
The added question, for me, is WHY do atheists celebrate Christmas?
Oh, I see. Parties and booze. Parties and presents. That’s the ticket.
I don’t know. It seems pretty disingenuous to me. I would not trouble [...]
Vatican Blasts "Golden Compass" as Godless and Hopeless
That is the headline from Reuters earlier this week. Calling for a boycott of the recent film based on the controversial trilogy, His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman, the Vatican statement elaborates: “when man tries to eliminate God from his horizon, everything is reduced, made sad, cold and inhumane”. Also according to Reuters, [...]
May Women Serve as Pastors?
New Book on Women’s Ordination Includes Essays by Several CTS FacultyFORT WAYNE, IN (CTS)—A collection of essays on the ordination of women, Women Pastors? The Ordination of Women in Biblical Lutheran Perspective, edited by Concordia Theological Seminary professor John T. Pless and Matthew Harrison has been published by Concordia Publishing [...]
Greatest First Lines of a Novel
Of all the books, you’ve read, wanted to read or wanted to write, which has the most memorable first sentences?
Naturally, someone has compiled a list of the top 100. Someone’s choices for the top 100, that is. See it here.
There are a lot of books on there which I’ve never read and many [...]
Bacon: One of Life’s Greatest Delights!!
Who doesn’t luv bacon?
For bacon-related products go here. Just in time for last minute Christmas shopping.
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The Golden Compass Lost Its Direction
Hi folks,
I just posted a few comments on the Pullman movie over at my department’s new blog which you can see right here.
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