Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Practicing Affirmation
Paperback: 176pgs Publisher: Crossway (January 19, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1433522438 Amazon ($10.08) Westminster ($9.93) Thanks to Crossway for providing this review copy! Author Sam Crabtree is the lead pastor for life training at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, which if you’re not familiar is John Piper’s church. Piper does the preaching, Crabtree does the vision casting…
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The Working Title: About Face
[This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] This Monday, I’m actually back in Knoxville for a visit. It’s the only extended window I have before school starts up and Christmas break, although I’ll be back up this way in September for a wedding in Louisville. That occasion however, won’t provide much time for…
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Love Wins: A Brief Theology of Harry Potter
[In case you were wondering, yes, the title of this post is a bit of strategery] It’s been just over two weeks now since the last and final Harry Potter film was released. While a more full scale analysis is due, including working through questions regarding the setting of the Potter films (i.e. the witchcraft).…
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Mae: (a)fternoon
[This post is part of the College: Alphabetized by Album series] There is a scene in the movie High Fidelity where Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is sitting on the floor organizing his album collection autobiographically. This series is going to be kind of like that, but reversed. Whereas Rob’s records were being organized on the…
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In the Beginning Was the Word: Language – A God-Centered Approach
Vern Poythress is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. The present volume is the second of three in a series by investigating disciplines related to the field of New Testament studies. Published after the book on science and before the book on sociology, this treatment of language is perhaps the…
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A New Way To Be Human
[This post is part of the Reshaping Christian Habits series] About a dozen years ago, a band from San Diego released their sophomore album. Very few people at the time could have predicted the later rise of this particular trio of musicians into mainstream prominence and widespread acclaim. The band itself wasn’t in a race…
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Westminster Youth Ministry Booksale
Westminster has a good selection of books on youth ministry for sale: Family-Based Youth Ministry: Reaching the Been-There, Done-That Generation Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church No Guts, No Glory: How to Build a Youth Ministry That Lasts Critique of Modern Youth Ministry Sustainable Youth Ministry: Why Most…
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Triperspectivalism: More Than Church Leadership Analysis
[This post is part of the Perspectives on Triperspectivalism series] Triperspectivalism is word that sounds much more complicated than it actually is. My own introduction to the concept was through a talk given by Mark Driscoll (which is available here) at the CCEF national conference a few years back. The context of that lecture was…
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Meaning At The Movies
Author Grant Horner is associate professor of English at The Master’s College in Santa Clarita, CA. In Meaning at the Movies, he offers “an extended meditation on why we have movies at all, why they are so powerful, and why Christians need to think deeply and theologically about film art—indeed, about all human cultural production”…
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John Calvin On Living in Florida
Commenting on Isaiah 13:10 (For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light), Calvin says: [W]hen the sun and moon and stars shine in heaven, God may be said to cheer us by his…
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