by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 16, 2006 | Annotated Quotations
Photo by Flickr user Andreas Møller, used under Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 2.0.In the 1981 InterVarsity edition of his book Tell the Truth: The Whole Gospel to the Whole Person by Whole People, Will Metzger warned against using a watered-down “feel...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 20, 2005 | Annotated Quotations
Keith Lehrer, in his Theory of Knowledge, cautions against the sort of “commonsense” thinking prevalent among advocates of externalism, which is “The view that mental events and acts are essentially dependent on the world external to the mind, in...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jun 4, 2005 | Annotated Quotations
The late longevity researcher, Roy Walford, M.D., noted how such exercises-to-exhaustion as marathon running could shorten lifespan, a matter perhaps relevant to Christian stewardship. In his Beyond The 120 Year Diet: How To Double Your Vital Years (2000 revised and...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 18, 2005 | Annotated Quotations, Pet Peeves
The world is full of popular, clever-sounding sayings that are simply not true. This brief post concerns one such pseudo-aphorism, namely this: Christianity is not a religion; it’s a relationship. (Anonymous, traditional.) This popular saying, which I have heard...