I started blogging at Christian Post in March 2009 and I managed to last there for a year and a half until I decided to pack up shop, having growing tired of the harassment from a cadre of hostile pro-GOP, anti-Harry Potter fundamentalists. (It’s a long story.) During my time blogging for CP I wrote a few hundred articles and carved out a niche. (You can read the back catalogue of my old blog at Christianpost.com if you like, but be aware that a crash at Christian Post erased most of the threaded discussions.)
And so I left CP in September 2010 and moved my blog, The Tentative Apologist, to the safe confines of my own website. There I began blogging in October 2010. And there I have blogged ever since.
As of today, with this very article, I have crossed a milestone: 1500 articles published at randalrauser.com.
In celebration, I’m posting links to 15 previous articles (i.e. one for every 100 I’ve written) plus five “honorable mentions”. These articles give a decent overview of some of the major themes I’ve covered in the last 3 1/2 years of blogging from atheism to epistemology to ethics, biblical violence to Calvinism to consumerism. If you’re a long time reader, this is an opportunity to reacquaint yourself with some old friends (if blog posts can meaningfully be compared to friends which they probably can’t, but never mind). If you’re a recent reader, this is an opportunity to try a sampling from the labyrinth back catalogue. If you’re a medium time reader, well, I don’t know, just check out the links.
And now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get to work on the next 1500…
Fifteen Articles (in no particular order … except numerical)
1. “How good is God Behaving Badly? A Review.”
2. “Why are you laughing? Reflections on the ethics of gallows humor.”
3. “Misery loves company, especially more miserable company.“
4. “Should lazy teenagers be stoned?“
5. “Why Dawkins’ refusal to debate Craig is not only cowardly, it is immoral.“
6. “Calvinism and the Arbitrary Camp Director.“
7. “An Unbelievable Defense of the Amalekite Genocide.“
8. “What’s splitting your church? Worship music or genocide?“
9. “Does evangelical pessimism need a makeover?“
10. “A vacuous defense of penal substitution.“
11. “Not Even Wrong: The many problems with naturalism.“
12. “Is the church supposed to be ‘a place for you’?“
13. “Dealing with Doubt? On William Lane Craig’s rather bad advice.“
14. “Has Stephen Law been sucked into an intellectual black hole? A Review of Law’s ‘Believing Bullshit’“
15. “Is it right to eat that which you wouldn’t kill?“
Honorable Mention
1. “Can psychopaths be saved?“
2. “Are demons responsible for natural evil?“
3. “How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #2 The Indistinguishable Argument.“
4. “The Cross and the eXtreme Deep Field.“
5. “Errant statements in an inerrant book.“
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