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The Evangelical Problem With Science

By David Sessions On October 29, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Religion

A couple of weeks ago, evangelical professors Karl Giberson and Randall Stephens wrote in the New York Times that evangelical rejection of science demonstrates “unyielding ignorance on the part of the religious.” They believe in Jesus, too, but “find it hard to recognize our religious tradition in the mainstream evangelical conversation.”

That didn’t [...]

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The Disconnect

By David Sessions On June 25, 2011 · 5 Comments · In Politics

Marvin Olasky this morning:

Was AP coverage [of the New York gay marriage vote] improved by its follow-up report at 9:03 a.m., which stuck on—like a fig leaf—brief sentences by opponents of same-sex marriage? (Maybe someone remembered AP’s ethics code.) Not really, because the story did not even mention the past few [...]

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Quote of the Day: Al Mohler

By David Sessions On January 5, 2011 · 16 Comments · In Religion

“As I have stated repeatedly, I accept without hesitation the fact that the world indeed looks old. Armed with naturalistic assumptions, I would almost assuredly come to the same conclusions as BioLogos and the evolutionary establishment, or I would at least find evolutionary arguments credible. But the most basic issue is, and has always been, [...]

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The Ten Worst Christian Media Hacks, #10-6

By David Sessions On November 29, 2010 · 18 Comments · In Politics, Religion

Last week, Salon blogger Alex Pareene rocked the media world with The Hack 30, a definitive list of the biggest hacks in political media. Pareene went, above all, after shamelessness: people who consistently write banal, outrageous or flat-out wrong things and somehow retain their seats at the elite media table. They may [...]

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