Undeception

I am aware that a few of my theological positions are considered by many of my evangelical readers to be “liberal” (e.g. my beliefs on origins and biblical inerrancy). But this post will (unfortunately and unintentionally) be likely to cause controversy due to its blatant conservatism. More conservative, it turns out, than most modern evangelicals.
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I thought it might be a good idea to follow up on the poll I set up for “Why are so many Christian scientists evolutionists?”. Obviously, no poll on such a matter could be even close to definitive, or even representative of my readership. But I thought, given the high traffic the post preceding it [...]

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Following the lead among my local blogger friends Saige, Heather, and Josh, all of whose blogs have around 200 posts, I decided to reckon my own post count.
Now, mind, I started blogging on a blog called Don’t Dream It’s Over in March 2006. Note for anyone clicking on those links: it’s a part of the [...]

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I’m embroiled once again in a major challenge in my personal life that, aside from some interesting interaction in the comments, has kept me from posting here over the last couple weeks (it’s the same issue that occasioned my “Radio Silence” post). I am confident I will have all this behind me in just [...]

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My MacBook laptop’s hard drive crashed last week and I’ve been waiting to get it repaired; apparently you aren’t supposed to move them when they’re storing data to the hard drive…and I didn’t know it…*ahem*
Anyway, I lost lots of precious data (including all the family videos recorded this year!!!), but if I can forget that, [...]

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Anyone who’s tried to use this site more than a few times over the last year has noticed significant down-times, lags, and/or empty page pulls. I’ve put up with it because the host I’ve been using, 110mb is a free host, which means it doesn’t cost to run my website off of their servers.
Well, I’m [...]

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Following Mike Beidler’s lead, I’m notifying my readers that I’ve just added this blog to the Blog Networks app on Facebook. How’s about adding mine to your list and notifying me if I haven’t added yours to mine yet?

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Looks like the Chinese have been found out - but they’ll probably never admit it.
It seems one impossibly young-looking female gymnast from China’s team was described in a state-run news report last year as being only 13 years old, which would make her ineligible for the Olympics this year and her contributions illegitimate.
Okay, so the [...]

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My long-time friend Heather has tagged me with a meme listing my five favorite things (in no particular order). So here we go!
1) Receiving and spreading knowledge. I am an education nut (read: “nerd”); I love to receive it, and welcome opportunities to share it.
2) Discussing important topics. I want real back-and-forth dialogue on things [...]

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I’ve been thinking about switching themes for months now, but this weekend I’ve been toying with the one you see here. I can already see some things that I’m going to want to tweak, but if you have any suggestions as well, let me know. Also notice that I am trying out a “wall” widget [...]

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Effective this post, I’m going into radio silence for approximately one month. Well, not exactly. I mean, for one thing, this isn’t radio. And for another, I hope I’ll not be altogether silent over the next month, but there are no promises, either.
What’s the occasion? Well, let’s just say that the outcome of the event [...]

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ElShaddai Edwards has tagged me with the Weird Worship meme, in which I am supposed to come up with five worship songs with strange, perplexing, or otherwise - well, weird lyrics. My peeps know I’m highly critical of worship songs in general, but this has been more difficult than I thought to come up with [...]

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The Christian religion asserts that the chief failing of mankind has been its overriding predilection for self-sufficiency.
Now, God created a universe that sustains itself; even if He is not logically necessary for it to have essence as materialists contend, it is nevertheless apparent that He (or some other deity) is philosophically necessary for there to [...]

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Ok, it’s been long enough for me to do another meme, and because I am a good sport, I will respond to both memes I was tagged with by one merciless (mercilessly funny, that is) blogger friend of mine, Kev at Special Kind of Stupid (you want a laugh? check him out!). Unfortunately, my answers [...]

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Recently I heard a theologian talking about Job and was not surprised to hear him refer to Job’s “so-called friends”. Not surprised perhaps, but as usual when I hear this common sentiment, I was uncomfortable with it. Were Job’s friends there to give him a hard time? Were they there just so they could make [...]

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