Mexicans and their Nicknames

I saw a gallery (“Casting ‘Super Bowl: The Movie’” over at SI.com today which reminded me of a perhaps little-known aspect of Mexican culture.
The premise of the gallery is to show how closely certain participants in this Sunday’s Super Bowl resemble certain actors, some of them are uncanny.
Nevertheless, us Mexicans have a propensity to label [...]

Evolutionary Evangelism

Caught this editorial on the January 10, 2008 issue of the journal Nature,
“Spread the Word: Evolution is a scientific fact, and every organization whose research depends on it should explain why.”
Here are some tidbits,
But die-hard creationists aren’t a sensible target for raising awareness. What matters are those citizens who aren’t sure about evolution–as [...]

Postmodernism, the “Coming Apostasy”?

Interesting article titled “The Coming Apostasy” by Greg Stier, President and Founder of Dare2Share.
He bases the article on a text from 1 Timothy 4,
But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared [...]

Paul doing Science on Mars Hill

“Science is not truth; it is, instead, a method for diminishing ignorance” — From “The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory” by J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, and Jake Page.
Whether or not the above definition is accurate or not is an argument which I don’t necessarily intend with this [...]

Soccer is what Religion should be…

At least according to Sean Wilsey, a writer who contributed to a National Geographic (June 2006) story on “The Beautiful Game” in anticipation of the 2006 World Cup.
Here is what Wilsey wrote,
What is soccer if not everything that religion should be? Universal yet particular, the source of an infinitely renewable supply of hope, occasionally [...]

Christianity Brings out the Worst in People

“Christianity must be a most extraordinary thing. For not only (as I understood) had Christianity the most flaming vices, but it had apparently a mystical talent for combining vices which seemed inconsistent with each other. It was attacked on all sides and for all contradictory reasons.“ — GK Chesterton in Orthodoxy
I was recently privy to [...]

Want to Become an “Evo Warrior”?

“What can you do if your local school board proposes a curriculum that downplays evolution?”
Well according to a brief in the journal Science (315, p.21), you can become an “Evo Warrior” (funny how the bellicose imagery poses no problem in this situation, yet when the Christian asserts the reality of spiritual warfare, objections are not [...]

Just Like Heaven

Though the name of a classic tune by The Cure, the title of this post is more in reference to the following CS Lewis quote (which is from his classic sermon, “The Weight of Glory”),
Almost all our modern philosophies have been devised to convince us that the good of man is to be found on [...]

New Page: Discussion

Not that I’m trying to go the way of ESPN in regards to their shameless self-promotion, but I have added a new page to this here blog.
Some blogs have a comments policy which outlines what may or may not be said (amazing that those who tout their tolerance can be anything but as they refuse [...]

Could CS Lewis be talking about Conservatives and Liberals?

Something to think about especially in an election year,
I feel a strong desire to tell you–and I expect you feel a strong desire to tell me–which of these two errors is the worse. That is the devil getting at us. He always sends errors into the world in pairs–pairs of opposites. And he always encourages [...]