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Rod Dreher on Whether Doctrine Matters to Liberal Roman Catholics

Posted on January 18, 2014 by PaulVK

The American Conservative Douthat on the same subject “Catholicism and Cognitive Dissonance – NYTimes.com” http://feedly.com/k/1jezFqy

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Doesn’t Mind the Charge of Living Off Old Christian Moral Fat

Posted on January 17, 2014 by PaulVK

Fascinating piece on Camels With Hammers about this man’s attitude towards Christians who suggest to him that his post-Christian moral behavior continues to depend upon its Christian legacy. So long as people don’t ignore and dismiss the numerous ways that … Continue reading →

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Is AA too religious?

Posted on January 17, 2014 by PaulVK

From The Dish from AA Verses the Doctors in Slate

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When God’s Public Appearance Didn’t Work

Posted on January 17, 2014 by PaulVK

A Manuel for Creating Atheists Peter Boghossian has written A Manual for Creating Atheists. The subtitle of chapter one gives the purpose: “To give people the conversational tools to talk people out of their faith and help them embrace reason.” In … Continue reading →

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Ryan Bell’s Quest for the Natural Elephant

Posted on January 17, 2014 by PaulVK

Ryan Bell certainly started out his year without God with a media splash. The first entries in his blog were mostly noting the splash. Now it seems he’s settling into the project a bit more and beginning to process. Getting … Continue reading →

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If God wrote my name in the stars in the sky

Posted on January 15, 2014 by PaulVK

A fun piece written by an atheist about a classic parable.

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Of Story and Physics

Posted on January 15, 2014 by PaulVK

Can science crack “story”? Science can analyze the paper and the ink, and social science tries to engage the effect of story, but story stands beyond physics. A young man kills himself because a girl says she doesn’t want to … Continue reading →

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Why TULIP Does not Equal Reformed Theology

Posted on January 15, 2014 by PaulVK

by J. Todd Billings So why does TULIP–a relatively recent creation that was never intended as a summary of Reformed doctrine–get so much press? A number of sociological reasons could explain this, but a central one is that Reformed and … Continue reading →

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LeadingChurch.com 2013 in review

Posted on January 14, 2014 by PaulVK

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 40,000 times in 2013. If it were a … Continue reading →

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Fairness is as Fictitious as God

Posted on January 14, 2014 by PaulVK

American Want Fairness Fairness is a big cultural value of Americans. It is one of the foundational assumptions between our idea of justice. Jonathan Haidt in his book The Righteous Mind shows how for individualist westerners the basis for our … Continue reading →

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