I’ve been blogging for six and a half years. My possibly-overly-nostalgic memories of my early years blogging are that atheist and Christian bloggers interacted a lot more back then. The blogosphere seems to have moved away from that, and unfortunately it’s a self-reinforcing trend: it’s hard to write blog posts responding to Christian bloggers, if [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2012
DJ Grothe is right, part 1: what DJ said
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 9, 2012
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I’ve got some stuff to get off my chest. It’s related to things I’ve written here and here, but includes a lot of other stuff as well. It’s stuff I’ve avoided writing about because I feel like I have better things to do, but now it’s escalated to Greta Christina accusing DJ Grothe of sexism [...]
Review of Craig Keener’s Miracles
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 5, 2012
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This is my promised review of Craig Keener’s book Miracles. It’s actually a two-volume set, but I’m going to call it a book, for simplicity’s sake. Now my verdict is that I don’t know how to express how mixed my feelings are about this book. I’ll start with the good. Modern miracle stories For a [...]
Are there any interesting defenses of the moral side of religion?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on January 2, 2012
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So for months now I’ve been talking about working on this book, and I’m finally at the point where I’m feeling good about the progress I’ve made. I’ve got a draft of one chapter and partial drafts of seven other chapters. It’s not a full draft of the book, but I’ve written enough of it [...]