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The Candidate and the President: Rachel Motte Reports from SaddlebackPosted by Dustin Steeve - August 20, 2008 on 5:32 pm | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments I've been amused by recent speculations that Barack Obama may be the antichrist. After Saturday's candidate forum at Saddleback Church, I think we can safely say that he isn't. That would be too far above his pay grade. Rick Warren...
The Candidate and the President: Rachel Motte Reports from SaddlebackPosted by Dustin Steeve - August 20, 2008 on 5:32 pm | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments I've been amused by recent speculations that Barack Obama may be the antichrist. After Saturday's candidate forum at Saddleback Church, I think we can safely say that he isn't. That would be too far above his pay grade. Rick Warren...
ChangesPosted by Joe Carter - August 4, 2008 on 10:05 pm | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments Changes coming...stay tuned....
Thirty Three Things (v. 70)Posted by Joe Carter - July 28, 2008 on 2:11 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. How the digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate Chronic distraction, from which we all now suffer, kills you more slowly. Meyer says there is evidence that people in chronically distracted jobs are, in early...
The Lists:50 Favorite Works of Imaginative LiteraturePosted by Joe Carter - July 24, 2008 on 12:27 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: Since I've recently moved (and my Internet access is spotty at best) I'm still on a brief blogging hiatus. Regular blogging will resume on July 28. Until then I'll be posting material for you to argue about.] The following...
Stuff to Argue About:50 Favorite Works of Imaginative LiteraturePosted by Joe Carter - July 23, 2008 on 12:40 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: Since I've recently moved (and my Internet access is spotty at best) I'm still on a brief blogging hiatus. Regular blogging will resume on July 28. Until then I'll be posting material for you to argue about.] The following...
100 Most Overrated/Underrated FilmsPosted by Joe Carter - July 14, 2008 on 12:22 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: I'm taking a brief vacation. Regular blogging will resume on July 21.] "That movie was totally overrated. Now if you want to see a really worthwhile flick you should see..." Because film buffs like me say this type of...
The Very Persistent Illusion:Absurd and Amusing Rationalizations About Free WillPosted by Joe Carter - July 8, 2008 on 11:59 pm | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: I'm taking a brief vacation. Regular blogging will resume on July 21.] Last year while discussing bioethics with fellow blogger Jim Smalls, I expressed my disgust and dismay about ethicist Peter Singer. How could anyone with his intellect, I...
Thirty Three Things (v. 69)Posted by Joe Carter - July 7, 2008 on 1:19 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. God Is Not Dead Yet -- How current philosophers argue for his existence. °°°°°° 2. William F. Vallicella on God in the Declaration of Independence By my count, there are four references to God in the Declaration of Independence....
Do Tummy Aches Disprove God?Posted by Joe Carter - July 1, 2008 on 1:14 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments My tummy hurts. Ergo, there is no god. This argument may be absurd but it is not intended as a reductio ad absurdum. Although a very simplistic form, this enthymeme encapsulates one of the primary atheological arguments -- the argument...
Thirty Three Things (v. 68)Posted by Joe Carter - June 30, 2008 on 12:00 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. The Market and Human Nature -- from a 2005 Q&A with the conservative scholar Roger Scruton (via Rod Dreher): MG: What deleterious consequences result from the "free market ideology" you mention? Are there particular economic arrangements that conservatives ought...
Celestial Teapots, Flying Spaghetti Monsters, and Other Silly Atheist ArgumentsPosted by Joe Carter - June 25, 2008 on 2:26 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments You have to pity the modern atheist who attempts to present arguments for her cause. Unmoored from any respectable intellectual tradition, each generation is forced to recreate anti-theistic arguments from scratch. The result is that the claims which they believe...
Thirty Three Things (v. 67)Posted by Joe Carter - June 23, 2008 on 12:51 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. The Last Traffic Jam The average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it...
The Gospel of JuneteenthPosted by Joe Carter - June 20, 2008 on 10:07 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments Although bad news travels fast, good news often takes the scenic route. That appears to have been especially true during the Civil War. Although Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation became official on the first day of January 1863, word didn't arrive in...
Six Thoughts About JesusPosted by Joe Carter - June 19, 2008 on 2:36 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments Over the years people have asked me why, since this is an evangelical blog, I don't mention Jesus more often. My usual glib answer is that I prefer not to name-drop just because I'm on a first name basis with...
Family ResemblancePosted by Joe Carter - June 17, 2008 on 1:02 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: This is my belated Father's Day post. Intentionally belated, because it's not really the sort of thing one should post on Father's Day.] "You look like you're Ukrainian," said the lady at the cosmetic counter. I had been hoping...
Thirty Three Things (v. 66)Posted by Joe Carter - June 16, 2008 on 12:02 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. Cory Doctorow on judging one's own writing: One of the things I've noticed about writing every day is that there are days when writing that page feels like flying. Like the hand of God reached down and touched my...
Don’t Marry a Proverbs 31 WomanPosted by Joe Carter - June 13, 2008 on 12:58 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: I originally wrote this post in 2006 with the intention that it would be provocative. On reflection I see that it is a bit overstated and certainly less nuanced than it needs to be. "Career woman", for instance, has...
LOLCat Comm:Cat Macros as CommunicationPosted by Joe Carter - June 11, 2008 on 12:39 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: I'm on semi-hiatus this week so original blogging will be light. I'm reposting stale old material that I hoped you missed, so that it will appear fresh and new.] Not long after Al Gore invented the internet, his wife...
Thirty Three Things (x2){Special Edition}Posted by Joe Carter - June 9, 2008 on 12:05 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: The following are the #1 and #2 items from Thirty Three Things posts #33-65.]#33 -- 1. YouTube University: YouTube has struck deals with major universities, creating dedicated channels from which schools can distribute their media content. Check out the...
The Infanticide ShibbolethPosted by Joe Carter - June 5, 2008 on 1:43 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments The Book of Judges has a curious story about a fight between the men of Gilead and the men of Ephraim. After the battle the fugitives of Ephraim attempted to cross the fords of the Jordan River but were stopped...
Weininger’s Women:The Misogyny of Sex and the CityPosted by Joe Carter - June 3, 2008 on 12:11 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: This weekend the Sex and the City movie racked up $55.7 million at the box office, making if one of the most profitable misogynistic films in history. In honor of that achievement, I've dusted off this post from 2005.]...
Thirty Three Things (v. 65)Posted by Joe Carter - June 2, 2008 on 1:43 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. The Illuminati is a selection of photos by photographer Evan Baden that show young people seemingly mesmerized by the glow of their electronic devices. Baden explains his project: In Westernized cultures today, there is a generation that is growing...
Sin on a Bun:The Forgotten Vice of GluttonyPosted by Joe Carter - May 29, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments The appetite for sex, thought C.S. Lewis, is in "ludicrous and preposterous excess of its function." How else, he wondered, can we explain the fascination men have with watching a girl publicly undress on a stage? The "strip-tease" shows the...
Thirty Three Things (v. 64)Posted by Joe Carter - May 26, 2008 on 9:22 pm | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. Geerhardus Vos on the biblical concepts of "wisdom" and "folly": The [Old Testament] idea of "folly" can be best understood from the antithesis it forms to "wisdom." Wisdom is not a theoretical or abstractly scientific apprehension of things, but...
Brown and the Blight of British BioethicsPosted by Joe Carter - May 22, 2008 on 12:16 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments Back in 2006, I provided testimony before a committee of the Illinois state legislature on research involving embryo-destructive research and "therapeutic" cloning. At the time I was shocked by the complete unfamiliarity these legislators had with the basic concepts underlying...
In Review:Prince CaspianPosted by Joe Carter - May 21, 2008 on 12:59 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments "All war movies are antiwar movies," opined Francis Ford Coppola, "in that they describe horrible incidents and the most profound thing of all, to lose a young person." This truism has ended with the latest film installment of the Narnia...
The Monogamous Male Marriage:Fidelity, Promiscuity, and Gay MarriagePosted by Joe Carter - May 20, 2008 on 12:37 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: I haven't had a chance to process the recent same-sex marriage decision in California. But in the meantime I thought it was worth pointing out why few gay men in that state will be taking advantage of their new...
Thirty Three Things (v. 63)Posted by Joe Carter - May 19, 2008 on 12:16 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. P.J. O'Rourke on "fairness, idealism and other atrocities": All politics stink. Even democracy stinks. Imagine if our clothes were selected by the majority of shoppers, which would be teenage girls. I'd be standing here with my bellybutton exposed. Imagine...
Overheard (v. 11)Posted by Joe Carter - May 16, 2008 on 12:32 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments Though not a big fan of the fantasy genre, the first Narnia earned my eternal goodwill in a single scene. Any film that has Santa Claus handing out weapons to young children is a-okay by me. - From a review...
How Do You Love a Porn Star?Posted by Joe Carter - May 15, 2008 on 12:07 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments I abhor running and despise the taste of beer--two characteristics that are almost incompatible with being a Marine. Yet in the late 1990's, while stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, I decided to join the San Diego chapter of...
Divine Demarcation:Why Christians Should Discard ‘Supernatural’Posted by Joe Carter - May 13, 2008 on 12:04 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments [Note: A version of this article was originally posted in March 2006.]The American linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf once argued that language is used not only to express our thoughts but to shape them as well. In linguistics,...
Thirty Three Things (v. 62)Posted by Joe Carter - May 12, 2008 on 12:38 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. Jennifer Roback Morse on Feminism: An attack on the human body ...[F]eminists don't view gender differentiation as a biological reality to which sensible people must adapt. Sex differences are a cosmic injustice. No demand for social change is too...
The 2008 EO/Wheatstone Academy Symposium WinnersPosted by Joe Carter - May 9, 2008 on 12:17 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments Congratulations to the winners of the EO/Wheatstone Academy blog symposium. Thank you to all of you who submitted your wonderful essays--it was a very close race. The following posts earned their authors one of five fantastic prizes: First Place: Mark...
Thoughts on the Evangelical ManifestoPosted by Joe Carter - May 8, 2008 on 12:41 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments Yesterday a document was released at the National Press Club entitled An Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment, spearheaded by Os Guinness and signed by over 80 evangelical leaders. I would encourage anyone interested in evangelicalism...
Ad Hoc Review #4Posted by Joe Carter - May 7, 2008 on 12:41 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments Iron Man {movie} - The world of comics books is dominated by two publishing houses--DC and Marvel--each with its own unique universe of superheroes. But while they rarely converge, the DC and Marvel universes often mirror one another. Take, for...
Make Your Message Be What Matters:A Lesson from a McDonald’s Happy MealPosted by Joe Carter - May 6, 2008 on 12:01 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments The following guest post is by Abraham Piper, web content editor for Desiring God ministries and author of one of my favorite new blogs, 22 Words. My son brought home a toy from McDonald's yesterday. It's a little plastic singer...
Thirty Three Things (v. 61)Posted by Joe Carter - May 4, 2008 on 11:24 pm | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments 1. N.T. Wright on the Afterlife and the After Afterlife A bit obvious but still needs to be said. As David Wayne notes, "What Wright is doing, in his typical erudite and winsome way, is affirming what all Christians have...
A Herd of Unicorns:The Myth of Evangelical Political EngagementPosted by Joe Carter - May 1, 2008 on 1:00 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments Yesterday Phil Johnson, of the aptly named Pyromanics blog, threw gasoline on the flames of the debate about Christian involvement in politics with his provocatively titled post, "How Evangelicals Traded Their Spiritual Authority for a Mess of Political Pottage." Near...
What are the Essential (Non-Obvious)Albums of the ’80s?Posted by Joe Carter - April 29, 2008 on 12:17 am | In Evangelical Perspective, Mike Huckabee, Think Christian | No Comments I hail from Generation X while my fifteen-year-old daughter is a member of Generation Y. Yet while our generations are alphabetically close, there is a vast chasm between us musically. She's grown up in the American Idol-era of Kelly Clarkson,...
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