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How Do Atheists Celebrate Christmas?

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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 [...]

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December 23rd, 2007 at 10:37 pm

May Women Serve as Pastors?

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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 [...]

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December 19th, 2007 at 3:30 pm

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Academic Freedom Nonsense

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David Klinghoffer clarifies the Iowa State University flap over denying tenure to highly accomplished astronomer, Guillermo Gonzalez, because he harbors unpopular views in this Daily Standard article. It seems that every outrageous theory is defensible in today’s academia as long as you don’t ever imply a supreme intelligence behind the origin of the planet. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ [...]

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June 12th, 2007 at 8:36 pm

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The Lives of Others

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I direct you to a fascinating review of The Lives of Others by Barbara Nicolosi. She makes an interesting argument for why Hollywood has made so many movies about the Nazi atrocities but so few about the appalling stories of the Soviets or modern communists in Cuba, China or North Korea. I just added [...]

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May 30th, 2007 at 4:47 pm

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Why You Should See Apocalypto

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In my last post, I recommended Apocalypto, while warning that it is not for the squeamish. It’s a great film and I firmly believe, as I said, that if this had been directed by anyone besides Mel Gibson, it would have been hailed as a masterpiece by Hollywood elites and critics alike. It is simply [...]

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May 29th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

Well Calibrated Ignorance in UK School

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This is almost so outrageous, I’m tempted to think it’s a jest. It seems that some British schools are starting to drop certain topics from their history curriculum for fear of offending the Muslim children. Which topics, you ask? Namely the Holocaust and the Crusades. The reason, according to the Daily Mail, is [...]

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April 2nd, 2007 at 10:26 pm

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School House Rock and Worldview

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We went last night to our 11-year-old son’s school musical. It was based on all those awesome Schoolhouse Rock ditties from the 70s. I used to enjoy those on Saturday mornings. Still remember so many of the lyrics from Conjunction Junction, I’m Only a Bill, Interplanet Janet, etc. It was great [...]

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March 3rd, 2007 at 8:57 pm

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