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LATEST ARTICLES ( 22 )

• Over-estimating the Dessert Bar: What I’ve Gotten Myself Into This Summer

  

  I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• Astro-Barack: On Organic Food and the (Apparent) Difficulty of Science Reporting

  

  Let’s pretend like President Obama just went to the moon. In a stunning reversal of recent policy, the federal government unveiled a massively funded... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• Seeking Harmony: The Value of Precollegiate Philosophy

  

  Like a blast of audible punctuation, the beauty of a staccato note is in its brevity. Forcibly separated from the surrounding melody, the point of such music... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• A Review of “In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the...

  

  Steven B. Cowan Terry L. Wilder, (eds.) In Defense of the Bible: A Comprehensive Apologetic for the Authority of Scripture. B H Academic, 2013. 490 pp.... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• Ten Signs of Intellectual Honesty

  agholdier:Here are ten excellent points to sharpen both your thinking and the way that your thinking is received. Not only is this an important matter of pursin... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• Finding You in Words: The Mnemotechniques of Amy Pond

  

  I’m excited to report that an abstract I submitted has been tentatively accepted for inclusion in the upcoming volume: Doctor Who and Philosophy, Regenerated! Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• Whom Shall We Fear, Cthulhu Or God?

  

  agholdier:I’m actually a fan of Lovecraft, but these thoughts on otherness and a proper fear of God are certainly worth pondering. Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• How to Miss the Point: A Guide to Dimwitted Discourse

  agholdier:My good (and brilliant) friend Sarah Geis gives seventeen excellent methods here to ensure that you may come off looking as foolish as possible from... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• It is Donne: O’ Death Where Is Your Sting?

  

  Christus Victor! May we never forget this. As Christians – particularly those of us who are apologetically minded – seek to defend the objective historicity of... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• The Tragedy of Christian Bookstores

  agholdier:I really can’t say it better. Originally posted on Deeper Waters: Why do Christian Bookstores make me thoroughly depressed every time I go in them?... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• The Love of Money and the Root of Money

  agholdier:This is one of the best (and shortest) descriptions of what money is and why it’s a good thing (and not “the root of all evil”) that I’ve ever read!... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• So You’ve Seen “God’s Not Dead”…Now What?

  

  “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• The Worst Thing That “Son of God” Got Wrong: A Spaghetti Western Review

  

  The other night, I was almost able to cross something off my bucket list: watching a film all by myself in an otherwise empty movie theater. Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2014 PSYCHOLOGY

• WWJD?: Why Christians Should Not Care About the Upcoming “Blood Moon Tetrad”

  

  Like any group of people large enough to have its own “culture,” Christians are a strange bunch. And, also like any large enough group of people, outsiders... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2014

• A Mature Palate: On Reading (So-Called) “Children’s” Literature

  

  “[A] children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can like only when you are waltzing is ... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2014

• A Work in Progress

  What follows is my working introduction for a paper I will be delivering at the 2014 Society of Christian Philosophers Mountain-Pacific Regional Conference... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014

• The Sorkin Effect: Of Simulacra and the Head of State

  

  Recipe for a President: take one part intelligence and mix with two parts charisma, two parts passion, one part humility, and a dash of eloquence; sprinkle... Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2014

• Jonah’s Tomato Surprise

  My article “Jonah’s Tomato Surprise: A Literary Reading of God’s Unchanging Mind” is now up at the American Journal of Biblical Theology. You can find the... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014

• Mirror, Mirror: The Contrapuntal Perspective

  

  ‘In so far as the word “knowledge” has any meaning, the world is knowable; but it is interpretable otherwise, it has no meaning behind it, but countless... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2014

• Eschatological Engagement: A Revelationy Reason Why Christians Should Be...

  

  If there are three things we can agree on they are this: you’re not drinking enough water, land wars in Asia are unwise, and Protestants – if given the chance... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014