Monthly Archives: March 2009
Robby George and Greg Thornbury on Natural Law: A Valuable InSight Podcast
The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina has just released an excellent podcast on natural-law thinking featuring an interview conducted by Doug Baker with constitutional law scholar Robby George and systematician Greg Thornbury. It is called “Morality: Past its Prime”, … Continue reading
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“Learning to Be a Man”: Deodorant, Debating, and Same-Sex Classrooms
I found this NYT article by Jennifer Medina, “Schools Try Separating Boys from Girls”, interesting. The following are some of the highlights from this article on same-sex education: Different Approaches to the Sexes: “Michael Napolitano speaks to his fifth-grade class in … Continue reading
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The Link 3.6.09–Mat Kearney, Al Mohler, Collin Hansen, and Emotional Ethics
1. Christian Audio is giving away Don Whitney’s Spiritual Disciplines Audiobook during this month. Find it here. If you have not read this book, it is an absolute classic. I’ll never forget learning from it what meditation of Scripture entailed. … Continue reading
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Skateboarding Class at High School, and Other Signs of the Demise of the West
As Carl Trueman recently said, I am about to switch my blogging flamethrower to ‘Total Righteous Destruction’. Before I do so, allow me to list a few quotations from a VOA news piece by Sahar Sashar entitled, “Skateboarding Class at … Continue reading
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The Moral Vision of a Tormented Man: The New Yorker Remembers Author David Foster Wallace
The New Yorker has just published a piece about the writer David Foster Wallace entitled “The Unfinished.” It details a depressed man who grasped for a moral vision and a lasting joy. Sadly, it seems, he found neither, as the … Continue reading
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What Masculine Provision Looks Like: From Six Figures to Cleaning Urinals
This from a sobering story on the downturn from the NYT called “Forced from Executive Pay to Hourly Wage” by Michael Luo that follows a former six-figure executive in his daily work: “Some unemployed professionals said they decided not to … Continue reading
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Stanley Fish on the Drama of Redemption
In a moving and surprisingly orthodox (even evangelical) piece on the downturn called “Faith and Deficits,“ literary theorist and anti-foundationalist Stanley Fish of Florida International University offers the following words on debt and forgiveness: “The same message, of debts forgiven … Continue reading
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