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Husband, Father of 5, Pastor

Phil Vischer Podcast on Dreams and Lupita Nyongo

Posted on March 11, 2014 by PaulVK

Conversation starts around minute 30. Following Mark John Reynolds on Lupita Nyong’o’s Oscar speech and the follow up. This is a hobby horse for Phil and Skye challenges him. The Barna movie link

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Inspiration and Implications from Jesus Creed

Posted on March 11, 2014 by PaulVK

Jesus Creed Here’s a list. Click through for details

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Is Evolution a Random Process?

Posted on March 11, 2014 by PaulVK

Jesus Creed RJS The point being made in this clip is that the scientific definition of randomness does not imply that something is is open-ended and purposeless. The evolutionary process is an efficient search algorithm optimizing for specific functions. In … Continue reading →

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Studying Church

Posted on March 11, 2014 by PaulVK

The Science of Church A piece was recently posted on an admittedly unscientific survey of CRCs that have grown by 20% in the last 5 years. It drew some comments on CRC Voices and other places. I thought it might … Continue reading →

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Sullivan and Dreher back and forth on Discrimination and Religious Freedom

Posted on March 11, 2014 by PaulVK

Dreher, he links to Sullivan and you can retrace back from there. And Douthat joins in, or rather he started it. 

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Who Invented the Individual?

Posted on March 9, 2014 by PaulVK

http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/5430/full HT: The Dish But where do our ideas about the meaning of liberty come from? This is the topic addressed by Larry Siedentop in his erudite and elegantly-written Inventing the Individual. No doubt to the dismay of many, Siedentop’s thesis … Continue reading →

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The Ten Commandments Sermon Series

Posted on March 8, 2014 by PaulVK

Introduction: God Makes a Public Appearance You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me You Shall Not Make For Yourself A Graven Image You Shall Not Take the Name of the LORD in Vain Honor the Sabbath Day and Keep … Continue reading →

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The Problem of Evil and the Temptations of Christ

Posted on March 8, 2014 by PaulVK

The Death of God Elie Wiesel was born in the same town as Izidor Ruckel’s orphanage.  He was a teenager when the Germans rolled into town forty years before the orphanage. They began the process of rounding up the Jews for … Continue reading →

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Belief and Evidence

Posted on March 8, 2014 by PaulVK

I continue to follow Ryan Bell and his blogging. He’s working his program working to bolster the position he’s been creeping towards by immersing himself in atheist literature. Within this post he posts an idea I hear regularly. It is … Continue reading →

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More from Linker on the “real gay bigots”

Posted on March 8, 2014 by PaulVK

The week That’s why the premier liberal virtue is toleration and not recognition. Toleration is perfectly compatible with — indeed, it presupposes — a lack of unanimity, or even majority consensus, about ultimate goods. It leaves the diversity of views … Continue reading →

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