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Friday, August 7, 2009

Hey, Jim, I think I’ve found a dilettante

August 7, 2009

Sometimes Google News finds me articles I can’t resist taking a look at from places I’ve never heard of. Today it threw up an article from Blanco County, Texas (sorry, never heard of it before) on the formation of the canon. On the one hand, I applaud getting something on this topic into a local [...]

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The question to ask a scientologist

August 7, 2009

Just in case you should bump into Travolta or Cruise, here’s some brilliant advice from Oliver Kamm:

Just supposing you’re ever drawn into an argument with a Scientologist, stop immediately. And if you persist, ask why Hubbard’s book A History of Man, which purports to be what the title suggests, traces the evolution of the human [...]

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Yes. The world does change.

August 7, 2009

I think people in general and Christians in particular, constantly underestimate the ways in which change is driven by technology. The most non-reflective tradition, conservative (nay, fundamentalist) evangelicalism has embraced modern technology without questioning whether it ultimately will have the same transforming effect as (from different epochs) the codex, printing and reliable contraception.
This recent survey [...]

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