Dedicated Lion (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
By John Mark Reynolds Scriptorium Daily In the late twentieth-century certain secularists had to be banned from service in the armed forces. These men and women had committed themselves to communism and their loyalty was incompatible with the oath they swore to defend the United States. The problem with these secularists was not that they put their individual conscience above loyalty...
Pyromaniacs (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... comments of one of my posts (it was inevitable, I am sure), and what I have to say in response to John Mark Reynolds' defense of Indulgentiarum Doctrina as not a deal-breaker toward true faith in Christ will, frankly, not be suitable for a Catholic-run web site. This is the real thing in terms of exploring the Gospel, and in terms of why to reject Catholicism not only as a...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | yesterday
John Mark Reynolds has concluded his lengthy liveblogging of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue". I encourage you to read the whole thing, and watch a Christian intellectual who really likes Sarah Palin struggling to come to terms with her mediocre book and what it tells us about her as a politician. Excerpt: Practical wisdom is guided not just by common sense, but by reason...
Crunchy Con (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
My friend John Mark Reynolds and I crossed swords several times over Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign season. He much later became disenchanted by her. Now he's reading "Going Rogue," and liveblogging it at First Things , and discovering that there's not much to Sarah Palin. Excerpt: As for political ideas, Palin is apparently for things that have helped her and...
Constant Conservative (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I do not wish for President Obama to be re-elected (should he run) in 2012. That comes as no surprise to any regular follower of this space. However, his position deserves a measure of respect. John Mark Reynolds says it well: I strongly oppose the President’s politics. He will not get my vote in 2012, but [...]
Pseudo-Polymath (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
John Mark Reynolds takes another tack on the question regarding the heroes in our midst and not in the distant past, although he mentions at least one of them as well. One approach to the question of the hero is to start with the particular. That is to say, before you have a hero, you [...]
Dedicated Lion (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
By John Mark Reynolds Scriptorium Daily If beauty does exist, then there might be disciplines, learning traditions, which can teach humanity about this aspect of reality. Just as science studies physical truths, it could be that art, poetry, literature, and music describe (in their own terms) aspects of Beauty. Real beauty opens the possibility of taking fairy tales seriously without...
Dedicated Lion (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
By John Mark Reynolds Scriptorium Daily In one comment thread on this blog, someone asked why I believe. Here is a short answer. It is an odd thing to be called on to defend something you think you know . It is disturbing at first, because it makes you simultaneously wonder about your own mental clarity and that of your questioner. Why would he ask such a question? Isn’t...
Sierra Faith (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
John Mark Reynolds: Seventh, there is sure to be a section on fearing “ignorance and want” that implicitly argues for government run universal health care for poor Tiny Tim. Read it all.
TallSkinnyKiwi (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Frank Turk and John Mark Reynolds battle over the Nicene Creed and Catholicism. Interesting Sunday afternoon Reading. [Posted with iBlogger from my iPod touch]
Kingdom People (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... of the Church throughout the ages and in accord with the unchanging truth that is in Jesus Christ. John Mark Reynolds believes that if you have a conviction, you should be courageous enough to make it public. There is an admirable courage in men who follow arguments into ideas that threaten their jobs. One can disagree with the position taken, but when they are open about what...
Mere Orthodoxy (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
In my response to Frank Beckwith and John Mark Reynolds in The City, I pointed out that any that Christendom is impossible until evangelicals recover a robust notion of the Church’s existence as a culture–and maybe not even then. The notion of Church as culture, though, begs the difficult and tangled question of what [...]
Triablogue (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
From John Mark Reynolds : In one comment thread on this blog, someone asked why I believe. Here is a short answer. It is an odd thing to be called on to defend something you think you know . It is disturbing at first, because it makes you simultaneously wonder about your own mental clarity and that of your questioner. Why would he ask such a question? Isn’t the truth of the...
Pseudo-Polymath (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
John Mark Reynolds in a comment to my (first!) post at Evangel offered: A child would view Favre well . . . but a real man would see him better. He would glory in his manly exploits as an image of excellence and be provoked to go and do likewise in his own chosen profession. This is [...]
Middlebrow (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... reason I bring it up here, though, is that two Scriptorium authors are on the team at evangel: John Mark Reynolds and Fred Sanders are both joining that conversation. Scriptorium Daily, of course, will continue as before. It’s the main web presence for faculty from Biola’s Torrey Honors Institute to project their voices beyond the humanities building in La Mirada, to stay in...
