Friday Night Miscellany
Author: Jason is one of the editors at TM and is currently undertaking a BA in philosophy. Read more from himHere are some headlines from around the web, to take you into the weekend.
Apologetics
Probablity, presuppositionalism, and evidentialism.
New audio from Douglas Groothuis’ lectures for The Next Level Church: A Brief History of Buddhism and Hinduism and A Brief History of Islam
A brief primer on the Problem of Evil.
Theology
New book on the darker side of Christmas.
The doctrine of the Trinity and the source of the Christian Mission.
Christianity and Politics
The continuing conversation over the Manhattan Declaration: R. C. Sproul, Ligon Duncan, and Paul Edwards add their voices. Hunter Baker addresses John Stackhouse’s objection that the Declaration is “philosophically and politically incoherent”.
Was the Church responsible for modern welfare?
How cohabitation is a sin against social justice.
Disentangling the politics from the science: What to think about Global Warming.
Rick Warren clarifes his stance on the anti-gay bill being considered by the Ugandan Parliament.
Christianity and Culture
Is eating chocolate cake sinful?
The Time Magazine’s top religious stories of the year.
New study reveals the costly effects of pornography. (Also check out JT’s post with a great list of additional resources on the subject)
Other stuff
How pictures overwhelm words. Even when those pictures are stupid.
Robert Wright on how the New Atheism crusade is encountering powerful and possibly pivotal resistance: “Maybe this is the New Atheists’ biggest problem: As living proof that religion isn’t a prerequisite for divisive fundamentalism, they are walking rebuttals to their own ideology.”
This one is for Glenn: Scar Wars – a Star Wars/Scarface mash-up (content warning, not for delicate flowers)
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