Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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October’s $5 Albums
Amazon’s got some pretty great options on sale for $5 this month: The Postal Service’s Give Up Ben Fold’s Rockin the Suburbs Coldplay’s Parachutes Radiohead’s OK Computer Cold War Kids’ Mine is Yours 30 Seconds to Mars’ A Beautiful Lie Mastodon’s Crack the Skye Panic! At the Disco’s A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out NeedToBreathe’s…
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Jesus and Isaiah
By quoting Isaiah 6:9-10 in his explanation why he teaches in parables (Mark 4:10-12), Jesus indicates that nothing has really changed about Israel since Isaiah’s day. They see but do not perceive, they hear but do not understand; that is, they are still afflicted with unbelief. Jesus’ ministry through parables has the same role as…
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A Trinitarian Reading List
As a kind of follow up to yesterday’s post, I’d like to encourage you, if you’re fuzzy on this whole “doctrine of the Trinity” business, to pick up a copy of Fred Sander’s The Deep Things of God while its still cheap. Right now its only $2.99 on Kindle! Whether or not you’ve got a…
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The Elephant In The Room Is Church History
Perhaps you’re blissfully unaware that T.D. Jakes was invited to Round 2 of The Elephant Room. Depending on your familiarity with The Elephant Room, this is either cause for concern or a prompt to ask, “what’s the elephant room?” As Tim Challies clarifies: By way of context, we need to remember that The Elephant Room is a…
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The Role of Questions
The trouble with questions is that, once heard, they do not leave the hearers alone. They are asked of anyone who hears them, whether their subject is properly their business or not. Questions in a narrative are therefore extremely important for the reader of the narrative as well as for the original hearers. As we…
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Using The Compound Effect
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] Way back in June in the beginning of this series, I mentioned that you really ought to look into picking up Darren Hardy’s The Compound Effect. Coupled with a Christian focus on the goals of discipleship like N. T. Wright’s After You Believe, this book can help provide…
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Jesus as the Fulfillment of Religion
The religion of the Old Testament was an elaborate system that effectively taught that God kept his distance from sinners. Even though Israel rejoiced at the presenc of God among them, that presence was paradoxically, at one and the same time, a reminder of God’s distance. The coming of Jesus abolishes this distance, and so,…
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Four Stages of Procrastination
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MuteMath: Armistice
[This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] Tomorrow, MuteMath releases their third studio album, Odd Soul. Today, on our alphabetical trek through my iTunes library, we come to their second album, Armistice. This album, takes us back to fall (like their first will when we come to it), and specifically, fall…
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Jesus as Religious Critic
It is not an explicit part of Mark’s story to show Jesus’ attitude to Greco-Roman religion, but if he was so clearly disturbed at the abuses within the religion of Israel, it does not require much imagination to guess at his attitude towards the abuses associated with the idolatrous practices that existed outside Israel (cf.…
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