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Ah, West Philly…
Neat article about University City – the collection of neighborhoods west of the University of Pennsylvania where we lived for about three years before coming to Boston a couple of months ago (Via A Conservative Blog for Peace). Old Victorian houses, broad streets with lots of trees, and a wonderful mix of students, young professionals,…
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Gushee on Christian support for war
Southern Baptist theologian David Gushee, who’s written some good stuff about torture, has now published an interesting article called “The Church as a Community of Peace” (via). He all but renounces his former support for just-war theory, asking whether “as a Christian moral thinker, it is my place to offer support for war”: Unlike some…
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The lesser of two evils, I guess
Surely one of the gravest dangers facing the Republic is made for TV movies that are insufficiently reverent toward the government, and Democratic administrations in particular. Remember: it’s nobody’s fault that 9/11 happened! Our public servants all did the best they possibly could and there’s no room at all for blame or recrimination! And the…
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Huh?
The Boston version of the Metro – the free paper familiar to commuters everywhere – had an article today on some Jewish protesters rallying against Israel’s actions in Lebanon. But what I found puzzling was this quote from Josh Block, spokesman for AIPAC: “These people should protest against a genuine threat like Iran’s former president,…
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Comments
Readers may have noticed that this blog is now running on Blogger’s new beta version. While it does have some nifty new features there also appear to be some issues with comments. Switching to beta requires using a Google account, and it seems that if you’re still on an old Blogger account you may have…
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Universalism
I have to say this is something that I’ve never really felt the need to have a position on. Taking an definitive stance on either side (i.e. positively affirming that everyone will be saved or that not everyone will be saved) seems underdetermined by the evidence. There are more or less plausible theological arguments one…
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Ward on creationism and ID
VI favorite Keith Ward has an article in The Tablet (registration req’d) on intelligent design and creationism (via). He distinguishes between belief that the universe was designed in the sense that all theists accept, namely that its existence and structure is the result of a purposive intelligence, and the narrower sense promoted by Intelligent Design…
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Brunner on the Atonement
Sorry for the dearth of posting around here lately; things have been pretty busy. Among other things, I’m starting a new job this week, so I can’t promise the same level of scintillating content that VI readers are used to. We’ll have to see how things go. However, this weekend I had the chance to…
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Against Iran panic
A good analysis and collection of links from Matthew Yglesias. What I find so astounding is that many of the very same people who argued that Iraq posed an imminent threat to our security and that we must invade immediately are now arguing with straight faces that Iran … poses an imminent threat to our…
