Archive for February, 2016
I am really behind in my podcast listening. I just can’t keep up. In fact, I am more than a year behind on my Stand to Reason podcasts by Greg Koukl. Up until mid-2015, Koukl did a weekly 3-hour show, and I can typically only get in two hours on the weekend. So, I’m constantly […]
It is not uncommon nowadays to hear some people talk very cynically about “banksters”, with the obvious implication that banks and those who run them are merely corrupt, even criminal, profiteers. Throw in terms like “predatory lending” and add stories of exorbitant fees, home & farm foreclosures, fraud and exploitation, and it’s a wonder anyone […]
“Now that we have the detectors to see these systems, now that we know binary black holes are out there — we’ll begin listening to the Universe.” — Prof. Gabriela González, Louisiana State University I was looking for something science-y to write about this week, and “fortune” smiled upon me with the announcement of something […]
In the post titled “Newsweek Tells Christians They Are Wrong”, I mentioned that one of the examples of biblical corruption brought up by Kurt Eichenwald in his anti-evangelical, anti-Bible screed was the so-called “long(er) ending of Mark” (16:9-20). Some have called the debate about this passage the most significant textual controversy in the New Testament. […]