My journey through the TWU Today Newspaper archives continues as I consider another article I wrote waaay back in ninety-six. This one must have been good because as I recall, it prompted my friend Steve to write an indignant letter to the editor in reply. The article includes standard buzzwords of the evangelical lexicon in […]
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When Conservative Christianity Wore Aviators
The other day some old (or “vintage”) copies of His, the (to me heretofore unknown) magazine of Intervarsity Christian Fellowship were left out at our seminary for anybody interested in documents from 1970s conservative Protestant Christianity. I was immediately taken by this cover for the November 1977 edition. A pair of mirror lens aviator glasses […]
Vintage Bible Tracts: “Good News”
The other day I came across a bundle of tracts from my youth thirty years ago. Alas, there were no Jack Chick tracts among them. But there was this beauty, a children’s version of the Four Spiritual Laws: A definite classic, “Good News” shares the gospel by way of a glove where each of the […]
Why Ken’s Ark really is a bad idea
The other day I posted a satirical article criticizing Ken Ham’s goal of building a life-size Noah’s ark. Mark Hamilton then offered a good comment in response: “You know, regardless of what you think about the Ark theme park, it always drives me nuts when people talk about how money could be better spent on […]
Will Bibleman defeat Boghossian’s Epistemic Knight?
A few days ago Derek M drew my (and the collective “our”) attention to the following proposal from Peter Boghossian for inculcating atheist beliefs and values in pop culture, and in particular within children: “Whether or not we can be successful in helping people see value in epistemological rigor is an empirical question. I have […]
