Politics
Evangelicals, Scholarship, and Discrimination
Dan Wallace's recent post at Parchment and Pen on anti-Evangelical discrimination within the biblical studies community has caused a bit of a tempest in the biblioblog teacup. My thoughts... »
The Decline of the Dollar and other Economic News
A few financial/economic links to check out: The Dollar Adrift (WSJ): The dollar is getting killed, thanks to the Fed keeping the money spigot on full blast to “fight deflation” during this recession. So instead of dealing with a mere downturn, we’re setting ourselves up for a full-scale currency crisis as the rest of the... »
Assorted Interesting Articles
Here are a few interesting articles that I’ve read recently but won’t have time to give their own post. I’ll list each one and give a brief summary with each: »
The New Christian Right is Global
In “The New Christian Right is Global: What Mainstream Media Isn’t Telling You,” Bruce Wilson shows that the kind of charismatic (Wilson uses the more technical term “Third Wave”) Christianity embraced by Sarah Palin and often portrayed as a backwater, minority movement is fast becoming a dominant worldwide movement (especially in South America, Asia,... »