Understanding Polls and Probabilities
Jonathan Last defends Nate Silver, but it’s really just explaining what “probability” means. HT: Dispatches.
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The Hermeneutics of Love
Another great post on this by Rachel M. Stone. I’m glad I found her blog.
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Morgan Guyton Reviews a Review
I will definitely be reading Rachel Held Evans’ new book A Year of Biblical Womanhood, but I haven’t done so yet, so I’m not commenting on that book. It’s always interesting to me, however, to see reviews of reviews before I’ve gotten my hands on a book. In this case the review getting reviewed is…
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Bad Time of Year for a Black Cat
(HT: Why Evolution is True)
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Hammering the Word SOON
I already mentioned that I’m in the final stages of publishing a new book Eschatology: A Participatory Study Guide by Edward W. H. Vick. One of the things that Dr. Vick emphasizes is the abuse of the word “soon” in Christian teaching and preaching. There is a problem with definitions if you repeatedly claim that…
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Defining Christian
Adrian Warnock recently wrote a post on defining what is a Christian. I commented on that post, and largely had no problem with it. I’m looking forward to Adrian’s definition of an evangelical. Now Dave Warnock (no relation that I know of) has written a post critical of Adrian’s effort. Since I usually agree with…
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October 22 and Eschatology
October 22 probably doesn’t mean much to most of my readers, but for someone who grew up as a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA), it has great significance. It was on October 22, 1844 that early Adventists (before they were Seventh-day Adventists) expected Jesus to return. It was actually the second time they had expected that. first…
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Seismologists Guilty of Manslaughter
An Italian court has rendered what has to be on the top ten list of stupidest rulings in history in finding six scientists and government official guilty of manslaughter for being too reassuring prior to an earthquake (Source: MSNBC). Scientists around the world are condemning the verdict, as well they should. This illustrates the widespread…
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In the Mail: Dreams from My Real Father
It’s a DVD of the movie. No, I didn’t buy it and I didn’t order it. I already read enough about it to know I have no interest in its paranoid ramblings. It came in my mailbox with a presort mail label, addressed to me by name, and my wife didn’t get one, so I…
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What Dennis Venema Would Like to Hear a Young Earth Creationist Say
I think this post at BioLogos makes some important points. Besides, Dennis Venema does some excellent writing (not in this post, it’s about him).