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Everything You Know About the Gospel of Paul is Probably Wrong 0
- History
- January 8, 2018
This past year, I burdened the English-speaking world with my very own translation of the New Testament – a project that I undertook at the behest of my editor at Yale University Press, but that I agreed to almost in the instant that it was proposed. I had long contemplated attempting a ‘subversively literal’ rendering
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Avoiding Gluten isn’t Healthy if you don’t Have Coeliac Disease 0
- Science
- January 8, 2018
Coeliac disease, an allergy to gluten that causes damage to the intestine, affects 1% of the population. But more than ten times this number, or around 11% of the population, follows a gluten-free diet by choice, and up to 30% of people in the United States try to reduce their gluten intake. Gluten-free foods are
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This Week I Was Denied a Service Because of the Company’s Values—And I’m Okay With That 1
- Philosophy
- January 8, 2018
This week I was denied a service because the company’s values are at odds with the values that Alliance Defending Freedom stands for—values I personally hold. And guess what? I’m okay with that. Allow me to explain. As a writer, I’m always looking to improve my skills. And working for a no-debt ministry like Alliance
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The Best Argument for Atheism 1
- Religion
- January 8, 2018
David Bentley Hart is one of the foremost Christian apologists and prose stylists of our age. Perhaps his most popular work is Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, which contains a critique of many of the bad arguments against God’s existence put forward by contemporary atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel
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The Daddy Gap: 1 in 4 Fathers Don’t Live with Their Kids 0
- Culture
- January 8, 2018
Over the last 20 years, I’ve spent a good deal of time working with kids from the inner city. Through this interaction, I’ve grown accustomed to the fact that biological fathers are virtually non-existent in the homes of the children I know. One might say I’ve even grown a bit numb to this sad reality
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Why We Should Resist the Urge to Shame People into Conformity 0
- Entertainment
- January 8, 2018
The American psychologist Rollo May (1909-1994) once observed that the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it’s conformity. May believed this was particularly true for modern man, but it would be a mistake to assume the pressure to conform is a phenomenon confined to our age. The individual, Kipling observed, has always struggled to resist
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