(or Why Waste All That Time Considering Evidence When You Can Announce Your Presuppositions and Be Done With It) I’ve been monitoring a discussion at a prominent Calvinistic blog regarding Richard Dawkin’s defense of evolution in his new book, The Greatest Show On Earth. I do a unit on the New Atheists in my Advanced [...]
The Vilesidious Lectures: Advanced Tactics For Apostasy
7 Oct by
UPDATE: Vilesidious has appeared at IM before, writing a young protege on the subject of Christian schools. The transcript of the following lecture was secured through means that cannot be revealed, but as C.S. Lewis said, are readily available to those who learn a few basic techniques. The general conclusion is that the following lecture [...]
Dr. Denis Alexander: Evolution and the Church
6 Oct by
Bill Kinnon shot this talk by Dr. Denis Alexander on “Evolution and the Church.” Dr. Alexander is with the Faraday Institute on Science and Religion. This is NOT a creation/evolution talk, but on how Christians might understand evolutionary biology from their own perspective. Heavy for some IM readers, but others will like it. Thanks to [...]
iMonk 101: To Be or Not To Be or Why I’m Not A Young Earth Creationist
6 Oct by
This is most (not all) of an IM essay written during the early years of this web site (2001 I think.) My children were up to their ears in Ham/Hovind videos and I was feeling very alone in my own reading of Genesis. Things are better now, though the seeds of young earth creationism have [...]
Thoughts At 8 a.m. Mass
29 Sep by
UPDATE: Jeff’s comment is so profound it needs to be read by everyone: The wedge contemporary evangelicals are driving between young and old is incredibly short sighted and deadly. Doesn’t the Bible itself say that the older should teach the younger? We’ve turned things around so that anything new (even if unproven) and appealing to [...]
Which One of Us Is Lost or Confused?
23 Sep by
UPDATE: Comments closed. I wrote a bit about this person earlier this month on the “Praying to Mary” discussion. I’ve been teaching Ethiopian Orthodox students for as long as I’ve been teaching Bible- 17 years. In all that time, I’ve only met a handful of students who could even begin to explain to me anything [...]
That One Guy
22 Sep by
You might also want to read an IM essay from almost 8 years ago: The Little Brothers of St. Archie Bunker. There’s always “that one guy….” Some of the posts here at Internet Monk run well over a hundred + comments these days, and you won’t be surprised that someone usually finds a way to [...]
Why Doesn’t The Church Talk About Domestic Abuse?
17 Sep by
UPDATE: Check out: “Seven Reasons Women Stay In Abusive Relationships and How To Defeat Each One of Them” by John Shore. From Kentucky.com, following a high profile murder that followed a high profile history of domestic abuse The news reports of the recent death of Amanda Ross, allege that she was a victim of domestic [...]
Some Thoughts on Lutheranism and Evangelicalism + A Brief Review of the Lutheran Study Bible
15 Sep by
Let me begin by saying that I did not receive a review copy of The Lutheran Study Bible, though I probably could have. Like the ESV Study Bible, I bought my own copy from the publisher. I’m open to bribes, kickbacks and rental, but in this instance, it didn’t happen. Concordia Publishing has now completed [...]
Can someone tell me why a “Creation” Educator is giving this speech at a “Creation Museum?”
A speech about saving America and the church, in case you just don’t care enough actually watch the clip before you comment. Anytime someone tells me the “Creation museum” is a museum I want to run this piece out. Ham’s organization owns this “museum.” It’s goal is to get the public in and discredit any [...]