Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Like Playing the Piano with an Oven Mitt
My interest in preaching over the course of my first three years could be described in one word: Non-existent. Ok, so it’s a hyphenated word, but you get the idea. However, I can’t graduate without 2 semesters of preaching, so with only 2 semesters left to go, I had to dive into the world of homiletics…
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The Reason for Sports
If you are like me, then this weekend was an exciting time for you. The NFL season finally kicked off, and for the next several months, we will have weekends full of football. Over this weekend, along with watching a lot of football, I read through The Reason For Sports: A Christian Fanifesto and found…
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Billboards and Exegetical Back Flips
I don’t usually check Google Reader in the afternoons, but since it’s Friday, and I’m procrastinating on finishing a thesis syllabus, I thought I would check it out. Much to my surprise, Denny Burk has an article on a billboard campaign that is happening right here in Dallas. As you can see, this one is…
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Need to Read: 09.07.10
In a kind of follow to the last actual post, Douglas Wilson has some thoughts on Glenn Beck and the problems of his appeals to God: Because Beck is a Mormon, all his appeals to “God” will of necessity be appeals to a place-holder god, a thin, generic god, the god on our money. But…
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What’s New
I’ve been in the process of updating now that the blog has transferred to a new domain name. I haven’t done much actual posting, but here’s a brief rundown of the updates on here: Re-worked the About page. Now includes a love story and an explanation for the new title. Music page now has a Fall…
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Perspectives on Glenn Beck
It’s not really my goal to be overtly political on this blog, but after reading Calvin and Commerce earlier this summer, and eventually planning on reading Calvin in the Public Square as well as Calvin on Culture I started feeling that part of aspiring to be a theologian involves applying God’s word to politics. Don’t…
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Need to Read 8.30.10
Most everyday, I go through several RSS feeds in Google Reader and share items that I think are important to read for those of use pursuing the Christian life seriously. I thought it might help to highlight some of those postings here on the blog, and so here we are. Over at Parchment and Pen,…
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Resurrection: God Saves
[This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] One thing that makes Christianity unique is that it rests on the truthfulness of a historical event. From a philosophical vantage point, the foundation of Christianity rests on the impossibility of its contrary (i.e. knowledge would not be possible unless based on the authority of…
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Cross: God Dies
[This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] Much like the last chapter, this chapter is also more or less material from a previous book, in this case, Death by Love. I would thoroughly recommend that book, and you could read more of my thoughts about it here. This chapter starts with a…
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Incarnation: God Comes
[This post is part of the Doctrine: What Christians Should Believe series] In many ways, this chapter is a condensation of Driscoll and Breshear’s other book Vintage Jesus. Having read that previously myself, this chapter comes off as a CliffNotes of sorts. That being said though, it is still a very thorough treatment of the subject. The…
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