Author Archives: PaulVK

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Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

The Witch Temples of Mehandipur

The American Scholar examines exorcisms in Hindu India

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Douthat on Pluralism and Power

NYTimes It is easier for a majority to afford freedom to a minority when they are not considered a threat. It is also interesting how the two political poles switch sides on this debate.

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Healing Miracles

Fun episode of “Unbelievable” on healing miracles. Comment: Confirmation bias works on both sides. One sees unexplainable healing as unexplainable, the other sees it as the work of God.

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World Vision Changes Hiring to Permit SSM and Back Again

Christianity Today Gospel Coalition by Kevin De Young Rachel Held Evans’ post Comments I made to these links towards the discussion on the CRC Pastors Facebook Page Another element that this highlights is the strange gray area that is the … Continue reading →

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Evangelicals and Relevance

HT the Dish from Relevant Magazine

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from the Dish, the Space Theodicy

The Dish 

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New Calvinists and Old Calvinists

Challies had a post about the “new Calvinists” Oliphant conpiled the same list from the Piper talk D.G. Hart responds with some of his own comparisons

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World Downs Syndrome Day Video

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Pippa Biddle’s Voluntourist blog post

http://pippabiddle.com/2014/02/18/the-problem-with-little-white-girls-and-boys/ The the follow up posting Her observation in the initial post is of course not an unfamiliar one to folks with long term foreign missions experience like myself. The “value” she had was her relational connections with wealthy North … Continue reading →

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Fred Phelps

The Dish: The Bigot Everyone Loved to Hate (lots of links and excerpts) Dreher: The Wrathful Fred Phelps and Sand in the Gears

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