Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Reading The Bible With The Dead
Whether or not you’ve noticed, we’re kind of in the midst of a collection of reviews on biblical interpretation. This is an on-going interest for me as both a seminary graduate and Bible teacher. I think it may draw my attention so much because it is a nexus point of biblical studies, philosophical inquiry, and…
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How To Create Your Own Self-Hosted Blog
From Copyblogger: Now all you need to go is go to WordPress, setup your account and then and buy Standard Theme. If you need a more thorough explanation of how to get started, Michael Hyatt has a sweet video that will explain how to do it all in 20 minutes or less. My blog as you see…
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Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views
Originally, I thought I would review this Spectrum Multiviews book the way I went through Justification: Five Views. However, for two reasons I decided to just condense it to a single post. First, the essays in this book were shorter, and the work as a whole also lacked the longer editorial background chapters of the…
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The Most Uncomfortable Argument Against Common Ancestry
Consider these two statements: Why sex evolved is in fact one of evolution’s greatest mysteries. We should be deeply suspicious of speculations that come unaccompanied by hard evidence. Both of these come from Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution Is True. The first is in the chapter “How Sex Drives Evolution,” (155) and the second is from the…
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3 Lessons I Learned Being A Science Teacher
Though I didn’t mention it much on here, I spent the last year teaching science at a private Christian high school. Luckily that did not involve chemistry (beyond the occasional subbing gig), but it did involve teaching Biology to freshman and Anatomy & Physiology to juniors (and one senior). This itself involved what is probably one of…
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A Shot of Faith To The Head: Be A Confident Believer In the Age of Cranky Atheists
You’re reading this book review because of John Piper, believe it or not. If John Piper hadn’t have invited Doug Wilson to the 2009 Desiring God National Conference, I might not have ended up subscribed to his blog (cleverly titled Blog and Mablog). Having not done that, I probably wouldn’t have seen his blurb about…
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How To Tell A Puzzle From A Mystery
Two weeks ago I introduced Malcolm Gladwell with his bibliography. Last week I gave you some food for thought from Blink, and now we’ve got some more thought snacks from What the Dog Saw. Unlike Gladwell’s other books, this one is a collection of essays published elsewhere rather than a coherent narrative. How To Tell…
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Mapping Modern Theology: A Thematic and Historical Introduction
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of theology. So, when I saw Baker Academic had released a book detailing the landscape of modern theology with contributors like Fred Sanders, Daniel Treier, Kevin Vanhoozer, and Michael Horton, I knew I needed to request a review copy. As you can tell, my wish was granted and a couple…
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Why The Grey Would Be Nietzsche’s New Favorite Movie
A couple of weeks back, we had a few friends from our college group over to watch movies. Friday night we watched John Carter, deciding last minute to postpone watching The Grey until the next day when there were less freshman girls in attendance. Not sure that John Carter was the better movie in that…
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10 Things I Miss About Texas
It’s been a little over a year now since we moved from Dallas to Orlando. While Ali only lived there for two years, I was there twice as long and grew a little more fond of the only place besides Knoxville I lived for more than a year. At first, I was just glad to…
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