Category Archives: Culture commentary

Jonathan Haidt’s 5 Moral First Drafts

Posted on August 29, 2014 by PaulVK

Harm/Care Fairness/ Reciprocity Ingroup / Loyalty: only among humans can large groups join together. Authority/Respect: Purity/Sanctity 5 Best Candidates for First Draft of the Moral Mind Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delight  

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What Our Journey from Cold Warriors to Religious Consumers Means for the Church

Posted on July 29, 2014 by PaulVK

Mid-Century Modern The religious context for most North American congregations in the second half of the 20th century was fairly clear. Varieties of congregations that tried to live by the moniker “Bible believing”. Debates between them were seen as “intramural”. … Continue reading →

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Hobby Lobby and how Religion Doesn’t Fit in the Modern World

Posted on July 7, 2014 by PaulVK

This piece notes the rush of corporations looking for coverage in the Hobby Lobby fallout. It prompts a questions for me. 1. Are all of these companies going to opt out of ALL contraception or only the Roman Catholics? 2. Were … Continue reading →

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How We Don’t Live Out Our Confessionality, Why it is Unintelligible and Offensive to Many, and Why We Need to Stop It

Posted on July 4, 2014 by PaulVK

How does a Common Cultural North American understand a church “confession”? Tim Keller in a video on his book  Center Church talks about the common baseline assumptions North Americans have with respect to God and religion. He describes it in … Continue reading →

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Why has Climate Change not matched the political success of Same-Sex Marriage?

Posted on May 19, 2014 by PaulVK

Sea Change on Same Sex Marriage This week the Barna people posted a bunch of survey results on the speed at which Americans have changed their mind on Same-sex marriage. Apparently not only the President has “evolved”. There are a … Continue reading →

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Yes Hobby Lobby is run by hypocrites

Posted on April 2, 2014 by PaulVK

Breaking News! Mother Jones (via Forbes) uncovered the companies that Hobby Lobby has invested in, and guess what? They made money off companies who make the kinds of abortion products that they fighting to not have to fund via employee … Continue reading →

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Uncoupling as “Life is Beautiful” or Finding Life after the Nazis.

Posted on March 28, 2014 by PaulVK

Found this by @ErinBlaskie via Danny Fast. It’s an attempt to mitigate the loss of a marriage. Apparently the process is a Counscious Uncoupling. Be nice. Don’t fight. Be a grown up. All good things their child will benefit from. I truly … Continue reading →

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“God is Dead” has no meaning in the Dyadic World

Posted on March 20, 2014 by PaulVK

In this video from his speech to the national endowment of the humanities Walker Percy talks about the dyadic and the triadic modes of being in terms of understanding what science can and cannot address. There are no cats in this 50 … Continue reading →

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Atheists and Porn

Posted on March 12, 2014 by PaulVK

Also in the blogs this week by Andrew Sullivan  and Damon Linker about the morality of pornography. Not only are the young more in favor of Same Sex Marriage but also for porn. One article argues (predictably) that societal attitudes concerning pornography are a residue of asserted negative … 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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