“. . . the heart is famished by an idle intellect . . . when fed by an inquiring mind, it is enlivened, and reaches out of an expanded faith.” Charles Hodge, “The Theology of Intellect and That of the Feelings,” 651, 654, cited in W. Andrew Hoffecker, Charles Hodge: The Pride of Princeton (Phillipsburg:… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“. . . despair is the first real-life alternative to hope. The second is presumption. Despair and presumption may appear to be opposites, but on closer examination, they are revealed to be two sides of the decision against hope.” Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile (New York: Basic, 2009), 217-18.
September 6, 2011
“Bioethics as an intellectual institution is, in significant part, an industry for the production of rationalized — sometimes elegantly rationalized — permission slips in the service of the technological imperative joined to the pursuit of fame and wealth. Such permission slips are also issued in the service of what some believe to be the relief… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
“Identity is the product of decision. … We live in a world where God is active in choosing us and where our highest acts are a response to that choice, saying ‘yes’ to God’s ‘yes.’ In this environment, decision making can never be trivial or peripheral.” Eugene Peterson, Like Dew Your Youth: Growing Up with… [Read more…]
November 24, 2010
“When I was younger, I just said whatever I had to say. I ask myself now: Do I deeply believe that?” Interview by Edna Gundersen, USA Today (June 19, 2006).
November 24, 2010
“Get too close to satanic rock stars and the game warns, ‘Beware of musicians! They may play their screaming guitars to influence you to their side.’” Review of computer game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, Darren Gladstone notes a warning the game gives you; “Mission From God,” Wired Magazine (November 2006), 84.
March 15, 2012
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