Thanks to Dave Fiore for putting up a link to VI at his blog. Mr. Fiore writes some really fun and intelligent stuff about comics, literature, film, and early American Puritanism (and the connections therein) among other subjects. His Spider-Man blogging in particular has inspired me to try and dig out some of those 80’s reprints of the Lee/Ditko…

“I know of no other God except the one called Jesus Christ.” – Martin Luther   The question at the heart of the problem of evil is why, if God is good and all-powerful, doesn’t he do something about all the evil and suffering in the world? The usual responses (which I discussed here) often…

“The Christian argument for vegetarianism then is simple: since animals belong to God, have value to God and live for God, then their needless destruction is sinful. In short: animals have some right to their life, all circumstances being equal.” — Andrew Linzey

Bill Keezer was kind enough to send me a link to some of his own ruminations on matters theological. Here’s his take on the problem of evil: God doesn’t violate his own rules of nature.This idea occurred to me about four or five months ago. I took the approach that if there were God, what…

Christ commanded His followers to perform what Christians have come to call the Works of Mercy: feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, clothing the naked, sheltering the harborless, visiting the sick and prisoner, and burying the dead. Surely a simple program for direct action, and one enjoined on all of us. Not just…

“Neither party is mine, not the jackass or the elephant.” — Chuck D Jonah Goldberg doesn’t like Independents and he doesn’t like all the fawning over them by the press. As an Independent I suppose I should take umbrage at this, but he does make some good points. Some “swing voters” certainly make up their…

Francis Fukuyama writes:   Of all of the different views that have now come to be associated with neo-conservatives, the strangest one to me was the confidence that the US could transform Iraq into a Western-style democracy and go on from there to democratise the broader Middle East.   It struck me as strange precisely…

Some items of note from around the web:   Here’s a heart-warming article from today’s Philadelphia Inquirer (registration req’d) about a network of volunteers who rescue stray dogs from high-kill shelters in rural areas and find homes for them in the urban northeast. (Sadly, according to the article, there were still over 8,000 stray dogs…

You may be familiar with The Hunger Site where with a simple mouse click you can “donate” food to someone in need (i.e. you indirectly donate – sponsors donate the food based on the number of unique visits the site receives). Also see The Birth Site, a similar site dedicated to providing support and resources…