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    Should society stigmatize sluts?

    April 30, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 79 Comments

    Good old Rush Limbaugh really stuck his stick in the hornet’s nest with his outrageous comments in February calling Georgetown law student Sandra […]

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    Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, Slate, slut

    What’s an education worth?

    April 27, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 18 Comments

    For the last few months university students in Quebec have been “on strike” from classes because of the government’s intention to […]

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    boycott, education, liberal arts, protest, quebec, tuition

    Do mushrooms provide the key to hell?

    April 26, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 29 Comments

    I don’t like mushrooms. That’s bad enough. But things are even worse. I don’t want to like mushrooms. If you […]

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    atheism, eternal conscious torment, God, hell, theism

    Can you ever have too many war documentaries?

    April 26, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 5 Comments

    The other day I watched the Academy Award nominated 2011 documentary “Hell and Back Again”. The film was directed by […]

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    Afghanistan, documentary, Hell and back again, war

    Does evangelical pessimism need a makeover?

    April 25, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 10 Comments

    When I was growing up I was taught dispensational premillennialism, an eschatology (theology of last things) that has as one […]

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    dispensationalism, eschatology, evangelicalism, John Rawls, justice

    Does universalism undermine Christian mission?

    April 24, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 21 Comments

    It is a common objection to the doctrine of universal salvation. And Walter expresses it well: the Christian message loses […]

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    evangelism, hell, mission, universalism

    Did Bon Scott really want to go to hell?

    April 23, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 59 Comments

    Bon Scott, the immortal first lead singer of AC/DC, has impeccable rock and roll credentials. Widely considered one of the […]

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    AC/DC, Bon Scott, hell, Highway to Hell

    C.S. Lewis’ view of hell and why it doesn’t help (much)

    April 21, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 64 Comments

    George MacDonald, the nineteenth century fantasy writer and universalist, was one of the most important influences on C.S. Lewis. While […]

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    C.S. Lewis, eternal consious torment, hell, theodicy

    When Archie got Jesus: A history of Christian Archie comics

    April 20, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 7 Comments

    When I was growing up I had a stack of Archie comics that was about fifty inches high (and that’s […]

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    Al Hartley, Archie, pop culture, Spire Christian Comics

    Does God trick people into hell? Lessons from Jack Chick

    April 20, 2012 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 49 Comments

    When I was growing up I used to search the large tract rack in our church’s foyer. The rack had hundreds […]

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    Ally, Christopher Hitchens, damnation, God, hell, Jack Chick, problem of evil, theodicy
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