December 2011
- 31: A New Year’s Greeting from Randal (9)
- 31: Anomie and the City: A Reflection on ‘Midnight in Paris’ (2)
- 30: Singing the praises of the imprecatory psalms? (219)
- 29: Please rescue me lest I drown: On the fear of losing faith (6)
- 28: Christians singing pagan songs … and liking it (77)
- 27: Sometimes it is okay just to say ‘Merry Christmas’ (31)
- 27: Does love of one’s spouse require hatred of all others? (43)
- 26: Why the Calvinist’s need to exclude some people from God’s love does not bode well (72)
- 25: How do you schedule a convenient Christmas service? (7)
- 23: Merry Christmas from Randal (11)
- 22: God loves you … but he hates that guy over there (29)
- 21: North Korea may be crazy but what are we? (5)
- 20: Does God hate those he does not save? (41)
- 18: The Jesus double standard (330)
- 17: God and Wonderdad: A final discussion of antitheism (34)
- 17: Frank’s rather (un)righteous protest against God (15)
- 16: On the passing of Christopher Hitchens (75)
- 16: Mission Statements as Symbols: A Further Reflection (2)
- 16: Developing Christ-minded leaders who make a difference in the world? (4)
- 14: The end of antitheism once and for all (40)
- 14: On those who loathe God (81)
- 13: Tasting wine and sensing God (25)
- 13: Should you care if God exists? (16)
- 12: Canada plays the Grinch that Stole Christmas in Durban (12)
- 11: What’s splitting your church? Worship music or genocide? (7)
- 10: The strange journey of the Swedish Atheist (book that is) (5)
- 10: Does God choose his nature? The bad implications of a seemingly good idea (13)
- 09: The farewell tour for Glen Campbell, and for you and me (36)
- 08: Why you shouldn’t sing “Silent Night” at city hall (15)
- 07: Why biblical theologians need philosophical theology (35)
- 07: Did Jesus ever have an idol? (16)
- 07: Could God be other than maximally loving? Yet another response to Jerry (66)
- 06: The 99 percent don’t have dreadlocks or nose rings (5)
- 05: Holiday shopping help from Eerdmans (0)
- 05: Does God need evil? Jerry Shepherd and Jonathan Edwards (50)
- 05: Bad idea of the week: Michael Buble singing “Santa Baby” (15)
- 03: Fee-fi-foe-fum, I smell the blood of an Arminian! (30)
- 02: A Review of Faith Lacking Understanding (4)
- 02: The day turns to night: on the sexualization of childhood (4)
- 02: An open minded challenge to the dogmatic doubter (18)
- 02: Would you want your daughter to become a pediatrician … or a porn star? (50)
November 2011
- 30: The nutcracker that thought he’d stoke the fire and other bad ideas (44)
- 29: Can you see the sun if it doesn’t reflect light? (21)
- 27: God or Godless nears completion (45)
- 25: The Confessions of an Ouranophobe, or How I got over my fear of heaven (52)
- 23: Life is a concentration camp, so why are you smiling? (48)
- 22: Have you faced down any tanks lately? (11)
- 22: Two servings of fruit in every can? (3)
- 21: Can the Calvinist and Arminian ever sing Kumbaya … together? (14)
- 20: Calvinism and the Contrast Effect (27)
- 19: What on earth happened to Colton Burpo? A Discussion of “Heaven is for Real” (2)
- 17: How many wrong beliefs did Jesus have? (147)
- 16: The unlikely story of Finding God in the Shack (12)
- 15: Why Calvinists should be universalists or Arminians (84)
- 14: Calvinism and the Arbitrary Camp Director Revisited: A Response to Andrew (66)
- 13: Lessons from the Pool of Life (0)
- 10: Every community has controversies they don’t teach (or even tolerate) (31)
- 10: First they came for Michael Licona (54)
- 09: Tourette’s Syndrome, children and the problem of evil (8)
- 08: The luxury of pet peeves (5)
- 08: And the first winner of the “Face-in-Palme d’Or” is… (32)
- 07: Science is a fallible, flawed, and all-too-human human endeavor (but it is also the best thing going) (8)
- 06: Is Daniel Dennett a conspiracy wingnut? (56)
- 05: God or Godless a step closer to publication (26)
- 05: Unintelligent double standards on intelligent design (19)
- 05: The sad face of atheistic fundamentalism (5)
- 05: In search of an arsonist: On testing for intelligent design (21)
- 04: God vs. the flying spaghetti monster at the Society of Edmonton Atheists (Part 1) (29)
- 02: Meeting Scrooge at Halloween (18)
- 01: Health Care Reform, Intelligent Design, and Public Debate (44)
October 2011
- 31: On scaring the hell out of your friends: An All Hallows Eve Meditation (12)
- 29: Morriston on the evil god hypothesis (69)
- 29: “The Lovely Bones,” and why Roger Ebert will not like a film version of “The Shack” (2)
- 28: Conservative Christians and cryptozoology (9)
- 27: If Jesus were a CEO he’d run a B Corporation (11)
- 26: Qoheleth meets the Academy (29)
- 25: Evil God at Chez Alice (58)
- 25: God vs. the Flying Spaghetti Monster at the Society of Edmonton Atheists (9)
- 24: Steve Hays redefines colorblindness (34)
- 24: Off to Princeton Theological Seminary (0)
- 24: Stephen Law vs. William Lane Craig: Round 2! (Law’s first rebuttal) (28)
- 22: Why won’t Dawkins stop the spread of Craig’s virulent memes? (21)
- 22: Did a fairy kill Stephen Law’s apple tree? (9)
- 22: Why Dawkins’ refusal to debate Craig is not only cowardly, it is immoral (37)
- 20: Why Dawkins says he won’t debate Craig (22)
- 20: Where Stephen Law goes wrong with his evil god argument (28)
- 19: Stephen Law vs. William Lane Craig: Round 2! (Craig’s first rebuttal) (29)
- 19: Was Stephen Law guilty of a bait and switch? (22)
- 19: Stephen Law vs. William Lane Craig: Round One! (35)
- 18: You can’t defend the punishment of infants for the sins of their nation so don’t try (24)
- 17: Must we apologize for the apologists? (5)
- 17: On moral failure in the pastorate (6)
- 17: Can Jesus make a better Caesar salad than my wife? (13)
- 15: Jesus Christ meets Jeanne Christa: Accommodation run amok? (10)
- 15: Is the ontological argument a “piece of crap”? (36)
- 15: On Twitter (2)
- 14: The last argument you’ll ever need? (11)
- 14: The debating strategy of John Loftus (13)
- 14: Who would vandalize an atheist bus ad? (3)
- 13: Randal interviews the Ontological Argument (19)
- 13: What makes for a good argument? Spinning your wheels with Anselm (13)
- 12: God is maximally great, God is perfectly good, so we can thank him in every possible world (43)
- 12: That theologian from which greater behavior could be conceived (9)
- 11: On socialists like you (12)
- 11: A third blushing attempt to rationalize babies being punished (4)
- 11: Does God only care about abortion and homosexuality? (17)
- 10: Could God have chosen to be a maximally perfect liar? (34)
- 09: Is God as perfect as I think he is? (98)
- 08: Why Christians shouldn’t seek a “biblical worldview” (22)
- 07: Dawkins vs. Craig in book form (31)
- 06: A second blushing attempt to rationalize babies being punished (23)
- 06: A first blushing attempt to rationalize babies being punished (12)
- 05: Does God punish people through natural disasters? (38)
- 04: Quote-mining Luther, Einstein and Feyerabend (37)
- 04: Quote others the way you would have them quote you (12)
- 03: What was in Jesus’ hand? Lessons on why you can’t take the Bible literally word for word (13)
- 03: A jerk before Jesus becomes a jerk for Jesus (3)
- 02: Can Christians call God ‘Mother’? (16)
September 2011
- 30: Should you marry your theology to the latest science? (26)
- 30: As long as you teach the Bible, I have no problem with you. (30)
- 29: Is the church supposed to be “a place for you”? (6)
- 28: Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. But which leaves you more damned? (54)
- 27: Why won’t Paul Copan respond to Thom Stark? (208)
- 27: Has Freddie Mercury been resurrected for our age? (34)
- 26: The moral confusion of Steve Hays (3)
- 25: Ouranophobia and its treatment (15)
- 25: Does the legal system produce knowledge of guilt? A response to Clamat’s confusion (6)
- 24: Why You Should Use Humor When Trying to Dialogue with Triablogue (8)
- 23: Patrick Chan and “The Comeback” (5)
- 23: Why are so many Christians so pessimistic about eternity? (25)
- 23: What is Patrick Chan really up to? (12)
- 22: Patrick Chan of Triablogue defends Randal Rauser with biting satire (25)
- 22: Al Mohler says the devil is in the details. Ironically enough, he’s right. (8)
- 22: The unconscionable act of executing Troy Davis (35)
- 21: Marriage, ethics and the new ascetics (24)
- 20: Help Save Troy Davis (28)
- 20: Economists who buy lottery tickets: Reflections on Less Wrong (12)
- 19: How should we interpret the religious skepticism of elite scientists? (118)
- 19: Randal’s Poems: “Weekend in the Woods” (0)
- 19: Randal’s Poems: “Winter Song” (0)
- 18: Till death do we part? Ethical reflection on marital vows (6)
- 17: Is it moral to divorce a spouse with Alzheimer’s Disease? (14)
- 16: Does God answer prayers for parking spaces at the Pottery Barn? (47)
- 14: Something better than doubt (22)
- 14: Is doubt good? Is skepticism a virtue? (16)
- 14: Randal’s Poems: “Pine Tree RIP” (1)
- 13: Ray Ingles on Religion (84)
- 13: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 12) (8)
- 10: Why “God hated Esau” is of no use to the Calvinist (50)
- 10: Jesus Christ as Hero: A Sermon (2)
- 09: You’re not as Crazy: Another Review (7)
- 09: Why Eternal Conscious Torment isn’t the only game in town for a Christian (156)
- 09: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 11) (19)
- 09: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 10) (26)
- 08: My conversation with Matt McCormick: A Disappointing Conclusion (6)
- 07: On putting Matt McCormick’s argument to rest (39)
- 06: Retractions in My Dialogue with Matt McCormick (2)
- 06: From Jerusalem to Salem: A Conversation with Matt McCormick (24)
- 05: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 9) (40)
- 04: “And if there’s life on other planets…” Reflections on God and E.T. (Part 2) (1)
- 03: Drag me to cinematic hell: A Review of “Don’t be afraid of the Dark” (4)
- 03: Is it better to affirm a truth for the wrong reasons than to deny it for the right ones? (2)
- 02: “So and so is a liar” and other general attacks on the character of others (0)
- 02: Intelligent design: The ultimate science stopper? (46)
- 02: The Wedge Strategy of Fiat USA and other nefarious intelligent designs (21)
August 2011
- 31: Are catalysmic natural disasters appropriate for the children’s choir? (45)
- 31: “And if there’s life on other planets…” Reflections on God and E.T. (12)
- 31: The God I really don’t understand (25)
- 28: “He said he would prefer to go to Hell…” (8)
- 27: On “Bible-haters” (14)
- 27: A plea for intelligently designed evolution (36)
- 26: This movie goes on and on and on: A pious reflection on boredom (5)
- 26: Beliefs that are forever justified? (25)
- 26: Dealing with Doubt? On William Lane Craig’s rather bad advice (40)
- 25: Was “Expelled” intelligently designed? A Review (13)
- 25: Why Being Prolife Ain’t Easy (1)
- 24: Isn’t it time to make peace with Darwin? (16)
- 24: If “The Bible is not a children’s book” then why do we have children’s Bibles? (16)
- 23: While we’re on the topic of abortion, here’s a great debate (and the prochoice guy wins!) (12)
- 23: Did Adam Smith’s invisible hand give us the “Skymall” catalogue? (3)
- 22: Abortion and the old Coat hanger Argument (54)
- 21: How do you teach God’s genocide to children? (80)
- 20: The Intolerable Martin Luther (4)
- 20: Atheism in Dallas (9)
- 20: The Shack under Attack? A Response to Mark Driscoll (10)
- 20: Blasts from the Blogging Past (0)
- 19: Can analytic philosophy save theology? (30)
- 19: Interview with Dana Pittman (6)
- 18: Can we rationally believe in an atonement we don’t understand? (20)
- 18: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 8) (6)
- 17: The Edsel of Christianity? (8)
- 17: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 7) (5)
- 16: Yahweh and Yahweh: A second and final footnote to my Jaco Gericke review (29)
- 16: What Gericke failed to do: A footnote to my review of Jaco Gericke (1)
- 15: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 6) (40)
- 15: If I shout a million times louder than you, does that make me right? (2)
- 15: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 5) (24)
- 15: Is this the most John Loftus has to say? (12)
- 14: A Review of “Christian Philosophy A-Z” (5)
- 14: Inane Pop culture Top Ten Lists and the Top Five New York Songs (2)
- 13: Is John W. Loftus “dumber than a box of rocks”? (81)
- 12: John W. Loftus and a Swede named Mario (31)
- 12: The Devil and the Atheist (34)
- 11: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 4) (34)
- 10: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 3) (3)
- 10: Gratuitious sex, violence and swearing at the movies? The debate continues (21)
- 09: How many ‘F’ words in a film is TOO many? (16)
- 09: Belief in tooth fairies is dumb and belief in god is dumber (0)
- 08: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 2) (6)
- 08: Johh Loftus responds: “It is a believing review of my book!” (10)
- 07: The End of Christianity? A Skeptical Review (Part 1) (122)
- 06: Why isn’t a universal atonement a more successful atonement? (37)
- 06: Who needs the Trinity? A Review of Fred Sanders, “The Deep Things of God” (32)
- 05: Apologetics arguments are like a closet full of clothes (12)
- 05: Beware of making really bad arguments for God’s existence (4)
- 04: Hell if universalism is true (16)
- 04: God’s arbitrary choices and election (27)
- 03: Would Jesus drink a Budweiser? (45)
- 03: Fantasy for fundamentalists or, how to defend Harry Potter to the conservative Christian (22)
- 03: The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver, and Other Apologetics Rabbit Trails (7)
- 02: Stephen Law’s Evil God Hypothesis (13)
- 02: The cover of my new apologetics book (9)
- 01: Has Stephen Law been sucked into an intellectual black hole? A Review of Law’s “Believing Bullshit” (27)
- 01: Calvinism and the arbitrary camp director (59)
July 2011
- 31: Tigers, Tabbys, and God’s special love for his elect (4)
- 30: The day the Arminian Pride Parade came to Geneva (46)
- 30: The Apologetics Song (6)
- 29: “Heresy” and Christian Publishing (25)
- 29: Hell we go again (40)
- 29: Do Arminians have the same problem as Calvinists? (79)
- 28: Can the Bible credibly be called “inspired”? (24)
- 28: One Word in many, many words: A Review of Thom Stark’s “Human Faces” (Part 2) (5)
- 27: Reading biblical horrors post-Enlightenment (12)
- 27: Calvinism preaches a God of love, and yet… (78)
- 26: Is God impotent in open theism? (35)
- 26: Should we really interpret the Bible literally when possible? (17)
- 25: A Reformed voice brings clarity to free will, providence and election (17)
- 25: How fundamentalists undermine the authority of scripture (67)
- 23: Youth pastors who wear cardigans and other obstacles to the Kingdom (1)
- 23: On wanting Christianity to End (37)
- 22: What do we mean when we call something “heresy”? (15)
- 21: The tortured attempts to avoid intelligent design continue (13)
- 20: Is Peter Pan satanic too? (7)
- 20: On the ethics of a Christian positively blurbing a book on atheism (20)
- 19: “Is J.K. Rowling a witch?” and other vile fundamentalist Christian gossip (10)
- 18: Does the Bible contain urban legends? (32)
- 17: The Pornographic Harry Potter? On the near impossibility of reasoning with Christian fundamentalists (28)
- 16: Should we believe the universe exists? (36)
- 15: An Open Letter to Harry Potter (3)
- 11: For those awaiting comment (1)
- 11: Amazing Grace at the Gospel Mission (2)
- 09: Leprechauns and God: The dialogue continues (30)
- 08: Could Jesus have given the wrong theological answer? (111)
- 07: Intelligent Design, explanation, and the laws of physics (11)
- 06: The evangelical form of transubstantiation (31)
- 05: Intelligent Design, Unknown Intelligence, and a Ouija Board (27)
- 05: On my preliminary research into ghosts (10)
- 04: Does a really old universe show that human beings are not important? (8)
- 03: God, atheism, and the de-centered universe (10)
- 02: Why denying intelligent design borders on insanity (56)
- 01: Leprechauns and God (17)
- 01: Unintelligent arguments against intelligent design: A Primer (74)
- 01: Sponsor an African child and save the arctic narwhal, and why I choose to do both (4)
June 2011
- 30: Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses religion, bacteria, and the meaning of life (10)
- 29: On God, leprechauns and really bad analogies (20)
- 28: On Affirmative Atheism (21)
- 28: Can an atheist hate God? (49)
- 27: What is the Greatest Enemy of Faith? (55)
- 27: Defending the Apologetics Company Man? (7)
- 25: Apologetics and the ‘Company Man’ Image (14)
- 25: On a theologian, his God, and his girls (19)
- 24: Looking up to God or down a deep well: A Review of Thom Stark’s “Human Faces” (Part 1) (25)
- 23: Who cares about truth when you have urban legends? (11)
- 22: Purgatory for Protestants (13)
- 21: Should Christians believe in ghosts? (25)
- 21: Reflections on the Thom Stark-Paul Copan debate (40)
- 20: Can we freely dispense with free will? (73)
- 20: My candidate for the most obnoxious book of the year (0)
- 20: Random thoughts on Randy in Rio (0)
- 15: Religion briefly defined (25)
- 14: Consumerism as Religion (4)
- 14: More powerful than a Bugatti and louder than a Harley (36)
- 14: Why “defeating naturalism” is harder said than done (35)
- 12: Why did God create carnivores? (17)
- 11: Why are atheists so obsessed with Zeus? (64)
- 11: The Crazy Things We Believe Introduction (28)
- 10: Dogmatic Daniel’s degenerating dialogue (21)
- 09: Must Hitler burn forever? (22)
- 08: Debriefing my meeting with the Society of Edmonton Atheists (63)
- 07: Inerrancy by induction? (99)
- 07: Can N.T. Wright save Paul the Apostle? (50)
- 06: Does God ‘rape the will’ to save people from hell? (6)
- 06: Free will, hell, and reasonable appeals to emotion (51)
- 03: Luxury hotel pet peeves (3)
- 02: James and his resurrected brother (51)
- 01: On slurring Cretans and Indians (23)
May 2011
- 31: Happy trails to you (4)
- 31: Inerrancy, liars, evil brutes and lazy gluttons (53)
- 30: Speaking in Brazil
- 30: Alister McGrath writes fantasy? What’s next? A cookbook? (11)
- 30: Reincarnation and Christianity (38)
- 29: Speaking at the Society of Edmonton Atheists (20)
- 29: How to support the troops on Memorial Day (10)
- 28: Can you name one scholar who accepts the resurrection but isn’t a Christian? (100)
- 27: Goddidit and The Chatty Skeptic Doll (53)
- 26: Heathenism, naturalism, and other unstated prejudices (54)
- 25: Getting to the bedrock of naturalism (105)
- 25: Do Atheists discriminate? (17)
- 25: The Atheist Missionary continues to justify his prejudices (48)
- 24: Royal flushes, resurrections, and the things you teach your children (29)
- 23: Would you teach your child that Great Grampy got a Royal Flush? (40)
- 22: Entomophobia meets Reason: A teachable moment (19)
- 22: Dawkins’ infinite regress and why it really matters (50)
- 21: The letter Dawkins wrote, and the letter Jerry Rivard would like to think Dawkins wrote (10)
- 20: Why do we make food cute and personal? (5)
- 20: ‘Dawkins was Wrong.’ Come on, say it. Say it! (21)
- 19: Debunking Christianity: A blog for Joe Sixpack Atheist (5)
- 19: Richard Dawkins’ foolish advice to his daughter (55)
- 19: Faith and Reason at War? A time for repentance and reconciliation (0)
- 19: Faith versus Reason? A call for an end to the warfare myth (109)
- 18: Taking the stigma out of doubt (17)
- 18: Is Mother Teresa in hell? (7)
- 17: Why you should probably sit out the slut walk (37)
- 17: Deep thoughts on Justin Bieber (3)
- 16: Why there is nothing wrong with being certain in your beliefs (34)
- 15: On the Myth of Religious Violence (146)
- 14: Petitionary prayer and the final hours of a Skoal hockey puck (73)
- 13: A Bible so inspired you’d never know it! (7)
- 13: Is God a literary genius? (39)
- 13: Can a Christian be a psychic? (6)
- 12: Personifying the problem of evil (11)
- 12: Atheists, the problem of evil, and lame Duane (18)
- 11: Stephen Maitzen, theism, and moral duty (26)
- 10: Another reason to love Calvin and Hobbes (4)
- 10: The Meaningless Post or the tyrrany of running a blog (6)
- 08: Is Paul the Apostle guilty of hate speech against atheists? (14)
- 07: Can atheists be trusted? (8)
- 07: Cartoonist Lynn Johnston on why she left the church (14)
- 06: A really bad argument against inclusivism (8)
- 06: What would it take to make Canada the policeman of the world? (7)
- 05: Does the Golden Rule apply in geopolitics? (26)
- 04: American-based terrorism, or, Why I think I’d like to be a Quaker (23)
- 04: Why Jesus is (probably not) coming back in my lifetime (or yours) (13)
- 03: From the caves to the capitals: who are the terrorists? (49)
- 02: Osama is dead! And there shall be dancing in the streets! (22)
- 01: An illustration for the wisdom of conservatism (theological and otherwise) (1)
April 2011
- 30: Why it pays to be an ‘unstrategic’ Christian (1)
- 30: The Ray Charles Problem of Evil (0)
- 30: How close have you come to killing somebody? A reflection on Gus Van Sant’s “Paranoid Park” (0)
- 29: Saving money on a stamp? An ethical conundrum (13)
- 29: How much evil could God allow for a greater good? (39)
- 29: Something (not) worth celebrating (4)
- 28: Christians and the sin of hating homosexuals (30)
- 28: The very worst reason to reject universalism (13)
- 27: Why conservatism is often riskier than you might think (and other observations on losing faith) (28)
- 27: It is what it is (0)
- 26: The ignorance of Richard Dawkins defended (but not very well) (13)
- 26: Does God ever visit Ronald McDonald House? (8)
- 26: Thom Stark’s review of Paul Copan’s “Is God a Moral Monster?” (17)
- 25: The universe and an agent cause (21)
- 25: The Always Prayer Shawl: A Reflection on Living Tradition (2)
- 24: When the resurrection comes to Afghanistan and Wall Street: An Easter Reflection (0)
- 23: Death to happy clappy Christianity: A Holy Saturday Meditation (6)
- 23: Conservative evangelicals, environmental hatred, and bad language (2)
- 22: Evidence that Walt Disney created the universe? (67)
- 22: The Death of Jesus, the rape of a woman, and a concept called “Imputation” (27)
- 22: The day I (almost) met Prince William (sort of) (0)
- 21: Why is God necessary? (50)
- 21: The campfire post (13)
- 20: Grow up or shut up Rauser (10)
- 20: The most amazing thing imaginable (13)
- 20: God is “complex”? (21)
- 19: Can Dawkins (or at least his argument) be saved? (28)
- 19: Rock stars have feelings too: My encounter with Kip Winger (19)
- 18: Why no professional philosopher would use Dawkins’ argument (31)
- 17: Three good books by atheists (hint: they’re not ‘new’ atheists) (6)
- 17: Is the non-practicing pedophile better than the rest of us? (8)
- 16: Pedophiles and rock stars: A reflection on “The Woodsman” (1)
- 16: Dontcha just hate that weather guy? (2)
- 15: A great “godless” book (19)
- 15: Charlie Sheen on the Road (4)
- 14: Lessons from the Sarcastic God (A subversive quiet time meditation) (26)
- 14: Cool Christians riding on The Wildside (10)
- 12: The problem of uncool Christianity (16)
- 11: “Is God a Moral Monster? A Review (Part 4) (50)
- 10: You ever smoke crack? (2)
- 09: Inerrancy: how to save a lost concept by comparing the Bible to “Ulysses” (17)
- 09: Would you choose God over truth? (20)
- 08: “Soul Surfer” and the idea of “faith-based films” (0)
- 08: Freddie Mercury and other lonely (and not so lonely) lost souls (16)
- 07: Inerrancy faces anti-trinitarians, open theists and holocaust deniers (12)
- 06: Affirming, implying, and inerrancy (14)
- 05: “Is God a Moral Monster?” A Review (Part 3) (7)
- 05: The hottest thing in the kitchen (8)
- 04: Crazy Idea Video (0)
- 03: “Gasland” on fracking up the landscape: A Review (6)
- 03: “Is God a Moral Monster?” A Review (Part 2) (20)
- 01: Burned before you know it (6)
- 01: “Is God a Moral Monster?” A Review (Part 1) (97)
March 2011
- 30: New Crazy Radio Interview (0)
- 30: Does extraordinary uncleanliness require extraordinary soap? (25)
- 29: Back from the New York Groove (Part 2) (0)
- 28: Heads up for an interesting Crazy interview (2)
- 28: The Toothy Grin of the Fisker Karma (0)
- 26: Russell’s Teapot: An analogy worthy of a first year undergraduate (65)
- 25: Back from the New York Groove (Part 1) (10)
- 17: New York, New York! (8)
- 15: Efficient causes, final causes, and the creepiest song of the seventies (1)
- 15: Please Mr. Dylan, step away from the microphone: A response to Paul Manata (13)
- 14: When astronauts attempt to wax poetic (2)
- 13: The spectacular success of methodological naturalism … or scientism run amok? (48)
- 12: Why “127 Hours” is a cut above your average film (0)
- 11: Paul Manata is from Mars. I am from Venus (146)
- 11: Paul Manata’s Crazy review (22)
- 10: What the virgin birth isn’t (5)
- 10: The 26 minutes Toronto stood still (8)
- 09: On dreams that should be lucid (5)
- 09: Crazy Review #3 (0)
- 09: Forget New Years. What’s your Ash Wednesday vow? (6)
- 09: Why we should all be driving a Tata (if we’re lucky) (4)
- 08: The thin ice of orthodoxy (15)
- 08: The Apostate Atheist (28)
- 07: Must a Christian believe God exists? (6)
- 06: How to declare Rob Bell not an evangelical theologian (if you must) (23)
- 06: Rob Bell, the heresy hunters, and the evangelical culture of fear (6)
- 05: Flushing pseudo-objectivity out of the bushes (17)
- 05: The most outrageous thing I’ve heard all day (19)
- 05: When is a medical anomaly a miracle? (23)
- 04: Do you think he’d hold that position if he was skeptical of the existence of God? (53)
- 04: On deferring to scholarly consensus (43)
- 03: From Paul meeting Jesus to Pheidippides meeting Pan? (57)
- 02: On the general skepticism about ancient miracle reports (18)
- 01: Crazy Review #2 and another radio interview (1)
- 01: Gaddafi: The Movie (0)
February 2011
- 28: Artists United Against Hollywood Whores (0)
- 28: Car salesmen do it. Lawyers too. And politicians. And also academics. (9)
- 26: Revelation 5:9 and Inclusive Salvation (23)
- 26: Why the sheep of Matthew 25 is circular (3)
- 25: When is chocolate not chocolate, and when is love not love? (12)
- 24: The skeptic meets the demon (44)
- 23: Awake in Japan: A first-person account of demonic oppression (17)
- 22: God’s (arbitrary?) love revisited (11)
- 21: Good Lovin’ Revisited: A Footnote to Calvin and the Rascals (4)
- 21: Don’t you want your baby to feel alright? John Calvin meets the Rascals (9)
- 20: Why God might save a Chinese over a German (6)
- 20: Mom’s wooden spoon and God’s arbitrary love (9)
- 19: How Calvinism decimates the divine love (37)
- 19: How many Calvinists understand Reformed theology? (20)
- 19: Happy with your mother in hell? (8)
- 19: One Crazy radio interview (0)
- 18: Why I wouldn’t buy a serial killer’s house (21)
- 18: Calvinism and the ice cream man (22)
- 17: The Case of Dr. Maximus Amore (8)
- 17: Shootin’ the bull at Princeton (1)
- 17: Is God the ultimate utilitarian? (30)
- 16: Oh heaven, why art thou so boring? (4)
- 15: The great implausibility of Calvinistic damnation (Part 1) (24)
- 14: Would you buy a serial killer’s house? (7)
- 14: How exclusive should Christianity be? (6)
- 13: Hopeful Universalism and the Lottery Illustration (28)
- 12: How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #3 Security Blanket Gambit (27)
- 12: Rock stars finding God in church (but not like you think) (3)
- 11: The first Crazy review (4)
- 11: How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #2 The Indistinguishable Argument (31)
- 10: Welcoming an Atheist to the Worldview Interrogation Room (17)
- 10: Six Feet Under Before Your Time: A Review of “Buried” (6)
- 09: Does universalism have a chance in hell of being true? (18)
- 08: Universalism isn’t a four letter word (24)
- 08: I am going to prison (5)
- 07: How to confound Christians with bad arguments: #1 Compare Santa to Jesus (24)
- 06: Will there be free will in heaven? (37)
- 06: Committing moral horrors in God’s name revisited (yet again) (0)
- 06: Atheists without anger (5)
- 05: Being completely objective about your worldview (as if that were possible) (26)
- 04: Twelve minutes, two films, all sorts of big ideas (0)
- 03: One Lost Penguin: A Meditation on Werner Herzog’s “Encounters at the End of the World” (6)
- 02: One Crazy Update (1)
- 01: On not being a jerk about it (6)
- 01: Inane Observation Tuesday (12)
January 2011
- 31: How much are your principles worth? Lessons from Morgan Spurlock (6)
- 30: Okay smart guy, who designed the designer? (45)
- 29: Misery loves company, especially more miserable company (13)
- 27: Signature in the Cell: Monologue on the Prologue (29)
- 27: How to worship yourself: Lessons from Sheila Larson and Van Halen (7)
- 26: Keep your eye on those “so called” Christians down the block (7)
- 25: Abraham, Isaac and a big knife. Like, wassup with that? (18)
- 25: The mutilation of Isaac (39)
- 24: Losers who promote their own books on their blogs (16)
- 24: Michael Douglas on the upside of cancer (13)
- 23: Teach your children well (and don’t mutiliate their corpses) (16)
- 22: Who gets to be Brad Pitt and why? (10)
- 21: Scott Clifton on Morality (25)
- 21: Write us a post you’re the bloggin’ man (21)
- 20: “To the rational mind, nothing is inexplicable; only unexplained.” (42)
- 19: On taking an objective approach to inexplicable events (30)
- 18: Reflections on Ricky Gervais, satire and sarcasm (25)
- 17: “The wings of a butterfly are meant to avoid” … and other design language (18)
- 16: If you declare with your mouth … and believe in your heart (40)
- 15: The intelligent design of symmetry (48)
- 15: Intelligent Design according to Charlotte’s Web (18)
- 14: I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, who cares if people like me? (74)
- 14: Indoctrination in Focus on the Family’s “The Truth Project” (40)
- 14: Dr. Z meets Dustin (20)
- 13: Dr. Z: A Brief Addendum (8)
- 13: The night Dr. Z became an agnostic (29)
- 13: For since the creation of the world: On the wickedness of atheism (53)
- 12: Doubters for Jesus (6)
- 11: Is “biblical Christianity” the only rational worldview? (And is atheism wicked?) (15)
- 10: The Wikipediazation of the World (9)
- 10: God and the Goddish Good (12)
- 08: “Signature in the Cell”: The Review Begins (albeit very modestly) (4)
- 07: “True Grit” is truly great … but what’s with the snakes? (11)
- 07: Do we need God to explain the wild success of the hula hoop? (5)
- 05: Ockham again? (62)
- 04: You believe in god because you had a bad father (or a good father, or no father) (39)
- 04: The day the devil went to seminary and other bizarre things (15)
- 01: Vaccines and the beliefs of those who receive them (22)
