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Talking Torture with the Green Berets

Jason, Thanks for linking to that excellent symposium.  I attached a long comment to the original blog site that presents my full argument against torture, which readers can find here. Also, I had the great privilege a month or so…

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Symposium on Torture

Rick, if you and others are interested, Joe Carter (of the Evangelical Outpost) blog and I sponsored an online symposium last year on the issue of torture. It can be found here. The responses appear in alphabetical order: Darrell Cole…

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Surrendering the High Ground on Torture

Another op ed piece in the Wasthington Post today (I’m visiting my mother in D. C. this week) was written by Eugene Robinson.  This one was titled “Torture Is Torture.”  He first gives practical reasons why America should not sanction…

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“Enough Apologies”

The tiff over Pope Benedict’s anti-Islam remarks, and his subsequent quasi-apology, presented an interesting interplay between supposed papal infallibility and political pragmatism.  Of course, Benedict was not speaking ex cathedra during his visit to the University of Regensburg, but that distinction is…

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Race and Responsibility

Phil, thanks for raising the question about covenantal contexts and responsibility with regard to race. I think you may have landed here on a genuine disagreement between us. My fear is that in having such an expansive understanding of “covenant”…

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To Ehrman is Human

Writing in the June 2006 issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dallas Seminary’s Daniel Wallace explains why Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus became such a publishing phenomenon.  Why would a book on textual criticism, of all things, sell…

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I guess I’m losing it

Justin — do you know, I can’t recall where I delivered them.   But then I’m told my lectures are a bit like the sixties — if you can remember them, then you weren’t really there.

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Trueman on Owen

If you want an introduction to John Owen’s theology, here is a series of five lectures by Carl Trueman on Owen: John Owen: The Man and His Time by Carl Trueman John Owen and the Practice of Theology by Carl…