That is the title of this Inside Higher Ed article about Christianity Today’s Books & Culture rejected an article questioning the past and future direction of Wheaton College. As someone with an MA from Wheaton I thought I might make various trenchant comments, but I will not. Just a couple of notes about the IHE [...]
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A modest proposal regarding the climate change debate
Might I suggest that the argument that the climate change debate is like Galileo and his confrontation with the Church (with, of course, the climate scientists playing the role of Galileo and the “deniers” in the role of the Magisterium) is a poor analogy. Surely it should be something like Newton v Einstein or Luther [...]
Casting stones
A colleague of mine each week sends me the Weekly Standard’s “Parody.” For those who are not familiar with TWS it is a very conservative magazine, edited by Bill Kristol. This week the feature is “Not a Parody” and I think is pretty fair. They begin with a quote from the White House Press Secretary [...]
Conference: Stewardship or Sacrifice? Religion & the Ethics of Climate Change
Things are coming together for our conference at PSU regarding religious and ethical dimensions of climate change. I will be a panelist and I am looking forward to it! From the conference website: Conference: October 7–8, 2009 Pasquerilla Spiritual Center The Pennsylvania State University All events are free and open to the public. Held at [...]
Palestinian Authority Officials ask Canada to Seize Dead Sea Scrolls
For some reason the most recent Royal Ontario Museum exhibition of Dead Sea Scrolls has ignited a lot of debate. The most recent headline to cross my digital threshold was one I had not heard before (but I don’t look for these things as a rule). They make some interesting arguments, perhaps fueled by the [...]
