Things Heard: edition 16v3

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 8:11 am

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Alevis … an Islamic sect I’ve never heard of featured.
“Off with their heads”, said the Queen of Hearts … and in a different story, on the plight of the headless.
I hope that’s art, because otherwise … it’s really stupid.
Speaking of stupid.
Two cultures, love and life vs death and utility.
A Christian Jewish girl making waves … in Israel.

Things Heard: edition 16v2

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 8:01 am

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Putin and Georgia.
Friendship and the whole me Tarzan you Jane thing.
Tongues of fire and … administration?
A picture of a man striving not to believe Emmy Noether’s theorem.
Monsters in our midst. (HT: Mere Comments)

Things Heard: edition 16v1

Monday, May 5th, 2008 at 8:15 am

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Witnesses, rape/incest, Islam and why.
A list of 10 things to be happy about in the Church and its movement in the 20th and 21st century.
Because “we like nihilists have gone astray” sounds really stupid (or free thinkers)
A look at Cuba.
Smile!

Things Heard: edition 15v5

Friday, May 2nd, 2008 at 7:57 am

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Jesus mails it in.
Ms Cyrus and the meatgrinder.
An amazing lady.
The Christian carnival comes to town. Weekly.
Denial of reality, reaching for the (cheese) moon.

Things Heard: edition 15v4

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 7:20 am

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A peer reviewed paper contra-global warming.
Iron Man.
Hmmm, are Roman Catholics the largest American protestant denomination?
Welfare and despotism.
I’d go for that, … if the socialists in America tied their socialism to completely unfettering the market, a compromise I’d make.

Things Heard: edition 15v3

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 at 6:58 am

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Saving the Book that came from Hell (or a place very close to it).
An evangelical and Mr Dawkins. In many ways … not what you’d expect.
Considering a pacifist who planned murder.
Feminism … and making sense.
Feminism and evangelicals … “used to agree” on the fight against pornography … do they still? Related post here.
Climate.
Men in goofy rubber suits … returning?

Things Heard: edition 15v2

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 at 8:30 am

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Homosexual practice and divorce compared. One problem, not confronted in that essay is that the contention “Divorce and remarriage has become generally acceptable even in socially conservative circles in western countries” is itself not by any means good or to be applauded but instead vehemently countered (if true).
Praise of the former President Carter.
Free-Tibet flags … made in China!?
On the other hand, a contention that all global warming models share a feature in which the most marked warming is to be found in the equatorial troposphere … but it isn’t to be found there. A serious problem for the global warming devotee I’d think.
Black liberation theology out of the closet.
Beauty in song.

Things Heard: edition 15v1

Monday, April 28th, 2008 at 9:13 am

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Church. You can’t fix it from the outside.
Wife beating and old stuff under water.
I think, which upon reflection is really quite odd.
A poem of pain.
God and film.
Don’t waste the moon.
Screwtape email.

Things Heard: edition 14v5

Friday, April 25th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

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Unimpressed with future prospects.
A Christian response to men collecting alimony.
“Atheist“.
On Good, Evil, and Darwin.
Heh.
Bully for him.
Famine, Joseph, Egypt, and archeology.

Things Heard: edition 14v4

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 8:06 am

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Carl Olson watches the race to the (moral) bottom. Ms Boxer “wins.”
Religious freedom in Russia … or the lack thereof. Good news for Russia on the other hand, their oil rents might be ending.
One problem with mocking the anti-communist stance is, well, it was right. If one says, “A similar dynamic exists with the whole “Marxist” bit that Kristol and Fightin’ Joe Lieberman recently trotted out. My hunch is that younger people thought this accusation was too stupid to warrant much of a response. But to older people, it still likely packs a punch. Remember that the neoconservative movement — and Reagan more generally — rose to power on anti-communist fearmongering.” Communism was worse than the right remembers and far far far worse than the left pretends.
Wylie E. …. in nappies.
A Reformed scientists reviews Expelled.
Geometry of Scripture.

Things Heard: edition 14v3

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 8:21 am

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Claude looks at Flew.
Contra the politics of the freak show.
Taking a bath.
Un-necessary compartmentalization? See for example: this book
A lesson from St. Isaac the Syrian.
A view from Chernobyl.

Things Heard: edition 14v2

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 am

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Flew and his journey to theism, in which he noted science led him to belief in God. Pinker goes the other way it seems. Ships in the night?
Language and learning, in which seminary Greek is coined “not learning” a language.
Property and the Jewish tradition.
For earth day … a birthday remembered.
I disagree. Art as commodity … the first and primary task of the artist is to create beauty.

Things Heard: edition 14v1

Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 8:32 am

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A rebuttal of the notion that the rising food prices are due to biofuel demand.
It’s Holy week for us Orthodox. For Holy Monday, a few links … here and here plus a Palm Sunday link roundup.
Theodicy and modernity.
Surging back?
Earth and oil.
Cube.

Things Heard: edition 13v5

Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 8:14 am

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A book (for kids) supporting an erroneous view on beauty.
Those ignorant of history are doomed to … make really stupid signs.
Logic and the Left on abortion … or not.
Weird computer tricks.
On polygamy in Texas … one question asked elsewhere would be how this would be treated (by the state and the press) if the polygamist sect was Muslim?

Things Heard: edition 13v4

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 at 8:17 am

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In praise of the country priest.
On gossip and communion.
Always resist “religion is a private matter” — an injunction.
A good book noted. Praised? Recommended? All of the above?
Some quotes on being Christian.
And a meme on beauty.

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