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Ask Anything: Weekend Edition 05-17-14

1) What are the noetic effects of sin? 2) Why does God not save everyone? 3) Should evangelicals view Catholics as fellow believers? ...

May 17, 2014

The Briefing 05-16-14

Podcast Transcript 1) Confusion over Catholic school moral contracts reveals need for confessional integrity Catholic school teacher backs gay son, shuns contract,  Louisville Courier-Journal (Michael D. Clark) Oakland Diocese requiring educ ...

May 16, 2014

“So Peter Opened His Mouth” — The Preacher’s Calling Reduced to Five Powerful Words

The Bible presents an astonishingly simple method of preaching. In Nehemiah 8:8 we read that Ezra and his fellow preachers "read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading." Ther ...

May 16, 2014

The Briefing 05-15-14

Podcast Transcript 1) Secular worldview’s absolute values clash in Louisville school transgender controversy Transgender controversy re-opens Louisville schools discrimination debate, Louisville Courier-Journal (Antoinette Konz) Atherton Hig ...

May 15, 2014

Commonplaces: Evelyn Waugh the Young Atheist

Evelyn Waugh, who would become one of the best-known British writers of his age, chronicled the decline and fall of the British aristocracy in works such as Brideshead Revisited (1945). A generation of Americans now fascinated by Downton Abbey is gen ...

May 15, 2014

The Briefing 05-14-14

Podcast Transcript 1) MIT’s secular invocation illustration of the sterility of totally secular culture Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT MIT Secular Students Successfully Lead Charge for Non-Religious Invocations at Graduation, Fri ...

May 14, 2014

Why So Many Churches Hear So Little of the Bible

"It is well and good for the preacher to base his sermon on the Bible, but he better get to something relevant pretty quickly, or we start mentally to check out.” That stunningly clear sentence reflects one of the most amazing, tragic, and lamentable ...

May 14, 2014

The Briefing 05-13-14

Podcast Transcript 1) Blasphemy laws like those in Pakistan are an offense to God Increasing Violence in Pakistan Surrounding Blasphemy Cases Deters Opposition, Wall Street Journal (Annabel Symmington) Pakistani Activist Shot Dead; Aided Bla ...

May 13, 2014

The Briefing 05-09-14

Podcast Transcript 1) Reports on media and Supreme Court evidence there is no true intellectual objectivity Media Slant: A Question of Cause and Effect, New York Times (N. Gregory Mankiw) Report: Journalists Are Miserable, Liberal, Over-Educ ...

May 9, 2014

The Briefing 05-08-14

Podcast Transcript 1)Emily Letts attempts to undermine moral sense of guilt by filming own abortion Why I Filmed My Abortion, Cosmopolitan (Emily Letts) Philly Actress Emily Letts Films Her Abortion for YouTube, Philadelphia Magazine (Victor ...

May 8, 2014

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