Why ask why?
As the familiar tale has it, the professor of a Philosophy 101 class enters the classroom to administer the final exam. Stepping silently to the blackboard, he writes there the one-word question “Why?” Turning to the...
Read MorePosted by Casey Shutt | Jun 3, 2010 | Messenger Insight
As the familiar tale has it, the professor of a Philosophy 101 class enters the classroom to administer the final exam. Stepping silently to the blackboard, he writes there the one-word question “Why?” Turning to the...
Read MorePosted by Casey Shutt | May 27, 2010 | Messenger Insight
In a recent Mars Hill Audio Journal interview, Dallas Willard speaks about his book, Knowing Christ Today. Willard believes that religious knowledge has been nudged outside of public discourse and deemed invalid and irrelevant....
Read MorePosted by Casey Shutt | May 25, 2010 | Messenger Insight
After 100 years, Twain’s autobiography has been released from the vault for publication.
Read MorePosted by Casey Shutt | May 21, 2010 | Messenger Insight
Why google is hurting the day’s productivity in workplaces across the nation. Congrats on thirty years Pac-Man.
Read MorePosted by Casey Shutt | May 18, 2010 | Messenger Insight
Grace City (which I found via BTW) desribes an interesting story on Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple) and his unwillingness to make porn readily available on his portable devices like the iPhone (now, I am not sure exactly what his...
Read MorePosted by Casey Shutt | May 14, 2010 | Messenger Insight
James Davison Hunter’s new book, To Change the World, has much to say. Regarding the question of Christian engagement in the world, the book is unavoidable and has been a paradigm-buster. In the midst of a discussion on...
Read MorePosted by Casey Shutt | May 10, 2010 | Feature
As a child, J.B. Rounds saw life in stark terms. His father sold whiskey for a living, and in those days such a profession was not highly regarded by either the alcoholics who secretly consumed the brew or the rough workers who...
Read MorePosted by Casey Shutt | May 1, 2010 | Messenger Insight
Life without God is difficult to sustain. This became apparent when reading Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.’s The Question of God. In this book Nicholi pits the thinking of C. S. Lewis (the theist) against Sigmund Freud (the atheist)...
Read MorePosted by Casey Shutt | Apr 23, 2010 | Messenger Insight
Here is David F. Wells discussing how invasive contemporary culture is: And what exactly is that contemporary culture? Some have said that we live in a postmodern age. Here’s Wells on the meaning of that:
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