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Prof Stackhouse takes on certainty in Christianity. It’s long but very worth the read. The main point today, however, is that one also cannot claim to be in an epistemic situation of certainty, either. For how could a human being claim such a thing? We all too often are mistaken about things, change our minds…
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guest post: a question for michael
Michael Washington was one of the first people I met at Wheaton College Graduate School in 2000. Even though we only had one class together we quickly became friends. Maggie and I had just been married for a year and Michael was soon to be married to Dawn. Over the past 8 years our friendship…
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martin luther king jr, 40 years today
Ben, make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty. These were Martin Luther King Jr’s last words, 40 years ago today. Moments earlier James Earl Ray shot King while he was standing outside of his room on the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in…
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Maggie and I don’t have children, but I still found this interview with Pamela Paul in Salon really interesting. The playpen is something that all of our parents used. You plopped the kid in it, and then you ran to take the laundry out of the washing machine, and throw it in the dryer, or…
David W. Swanson 