Guest Post: Ravi Zacharias on “Evicting the Sacred” at Christmas
I’d like to feature more guest posts at Philosophical Fragments, and here on the eve of Christmas I get to start that off with a bang. Chuck Colson has called Dr. Zacharias “the great evangelist of...
View Article“War on Christmas” Post-mortem: Do Christians Have a Persecution Complex?
Like megachurches, homeschooling, and Tim Tebow, “Merry Christmas” has become a religio-cultural Rorschach test. If you prefer that department stores greet you with a “Merry Christmas,” or at least...
View ArticleComparing Christmas Speeches: Queen Elizabeth, President Obama, and Ronald...
Sometimes I wish we belonged to the British Commonwealth. Watching this video was one of those times: From there, on The Royal Channel on Facebook (how fantastic is that?), one can see Queen...
View ArticleBreakfast Links for 11/28/12: American Hunger Games; Why Christians Suffer;...
BREAKFAST LINKS 11/28/12: Bill Blankschaen, Patheos/Bill in the Blank: “…I noted the jarring disparity between record retail sales for Black Friday, record Cyber Monday sales, and record movie box...
View ArticleWhy Christmas Matters
There are now, and long have been, two variations on the Christmas theme. There is the version in which Christmas is a largely commercial enterprise. At its best, this version of Christmas is an...
View ArticleBreakfast Links for Christmas Day, 12/15/12: A Christmas Warning; The Gift of...
BREAKFAST LINKS 12/25/12: Tim Dalrymple, Patheos/Philosophical Fragments: “Yet God was not compelled to do any of this. God Himself is the author and arbiter of all the rules. There is no higher...
View ArticleSanta’s Elves, Revealed
I enjoyed this description of a community of nuns from Margarita Mooney: “What is life like inside of a convent? First, to be clear, these sisters are not monastic–they have a calling to work in the...
View ArticleChristmas, Americans and the Virgin Birth
A guest post from Mark Tooley, President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy: A new poll by Pew Research, just in time for Christmas, shows 73 percent of Americans believe in Jesus’ virgin birth...
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