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Entries from June 2007
June 24, 2007
The irony of George Bush
I try not to get too political on this blog, but this is just too good to resist. Besides, it lends itself to an interesting exercise of interpreting the words of the powerful.
In vetoing the recent bill on stem-cell research, Bush made the following comments:
America is also a nation founded on the principle that all [...]
June 22, 2007
Why would anyone write like this?
From a book I’m looking through on a feminist understanding of the church:
. . . my own discourse seeks to demystify the cultural, dualistic, heterosexist, and essentialist as ideological obfuscations of the multiplicative structures of patriarchal domination.
Talk about obfuscations!
June 14, 2007
Sabbath vs. commercial culture
The Sabbath Command
“Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in [...]
June 14, 2007
College students aren’t all losing their religion
Inside Higher Ed today reports on a study that while many students drop in their attendance to religious services, very few actually say that religion is less important to them or disassociate with their religion.
The more you pursue a higher education, the more likely you are to abandon your faith — at least that’s what [...]
June 13, 2007
Chris Spinks is off to Wipf & Stock
Chris Spinks, with whom I share Fuller, our Mennonite church, and biblioblogging, is moving on to Eugene, OR, and the next stage in his life as an editor with Wipf & Stock. Here is the press release from Wipf & Stock:
Chris Spinks and his wife Gail move to the Pacific Northwest in June where Chris [...]
June 13, 2007
Everybody likes to quote Lincoln
At Sojourners’ presidential forum on faith, values, and poverty last week (catch a link to the full video of the event here and the transcript here) for the three “leading” democratic candidates, Barack Obama invoked Lincoln’s oft-quoted adage about “whether we are on God’s side.” Since Bush’s mixture of God and politics and his “you’re [...]
June 12, 2007
Richard T. Hughes defends Messiah (and Christian colleges in general)
Finally, some good press! I’ve blogged a couple times about the bad (and misrepresenting) press that Messiah College has gotten in the wake of the firings under the Attorney General, since Monica Goodling is an alumna of the school (as well as Regent University) [see my posts here and here]. It is an opinion piece [...]
June 12, 2007
IVP blog: Academic press facilitates broader conversations
“While not assuming truth is always in the moderate center, we try to avoid reactionary thought on the right or on the left.” That’s the word from one of the InterVarsity Press blogs, Addenda & Errata, in a post written by Dan Reid and entitled, “IVP Academic 3: An Ethos of University Publishing.” I, for [...]
