Category: History

Adam & ho anthropos

NPR’s Talk of the Nation Thursday had a 30-minute segment on “Christians Divided Over Science of Human Origins. Apart from a few callers and e-mailers, the discussion was basically between Daniel Harlow of Calvin College and Albert Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

I will not even try to sort out their debate overall, but Mohler said something I believe to be demonstrably false. Continue reading “Adam & ho anthropos” →

Tasty Tidbits 8/4/11

  1. Dust Furniture
  2. Super coup.
  3. What we can learn from American Muslims.
  4. Where are the religious progressives?
  5. If we were all terrorists ….
  6. Weapons in the hands of the righteous.
  7. Patent trolls.
  8. Lauren Ambrose does not strike me as the new Streisand.
  9. Why do Russians hate ice?

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Tasty Tidbits 7/16/11

Here’s some Tasty Tidbits du jour:

  1. Morality as heresy?!
  2. Sola Potatoes.
  3. The invisible elephant in the room.
  4. There oughta be a(nother) law.
  5. “This is a nation where no lovely thing can last.”
  6. Cat fight coming?
  7. The rehabilitation of Rupert.
  8. Keep your eye on SSRN, and don’t be put off by the homely exterior

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Tasty Tidbits 7/15/11

Here’s today’s Tasty Tidbits I’ve thought worth memorializing:

  1. Chaconne Klaverenga leaves the nest.
  2. Boy! Am I glad I proofread that one!
  3. National debt as a moral issue.
  4. History should be honest, so let’s gin up some stories about an oppressed minority.
  5. A little Harry Potter history.
  6. Consider the case of poor Caleb Warner.
  7. Obama lied.
  8. Maybe the phrase “one flesh” is way truer than the hookup culture imagines.
  9. Monkey copyrights?
  10. A testy tidbit among the tasties.
  11. Another lyrical interlude with Brother Bruce.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/13/11

  1. Anyone want to make any snide comments about the “slippery slope”
  2. “So this stupid, subhuman homeless person walks into a newspaper story and says ….”
  3. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cracker.
  4. Newt the Constitutional Scholar.
  5. Pandora gets — Holy smokes! Wouldja look at that! — a facelift.
  6. I do so wish that some GOP hopeful for 2012 would not race to the lunatic fringe.
  7. Can the study of history heal the culture wars?
  8. Souls experience strange things, apparently, when exiled from the body.
  9. “One of the Best Ones” is one of his best ones.

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