by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | May 20, 2014 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Shapira, Itzhak. The Return of the Kosher Pig: The Divine Messiah In Jewish Thought. Clarksville, MD: Lederer Books, 2013. xii+318 Pages. ISBN 978-1-936716-45-6.The author of The Return of the Kosher Pig (hereafter, Kosher Pig), Itzhak Shapira, is a Messianic...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Mar 2, 2014 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Gilson, Tom, and Carson Weitnauer, editors. True Reason: Confronting the Irrationality of the New Atheism. Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8254-4338-1. Abridged versions of this review may be found on Amazon and Goodreads. Prefer to skip ahead? Here are...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 10, 2013 | Random Commentary
About the Image: “The Wager” by David M. Hodges, created late 1990s, updated 2013. The version of this image I recovered recently from some old Zip disks dated to 11 September 1998. The late 1990s were the time when my skeptical agnosticism was consuming...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 3, 2013 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary
Re: abitwiser, “how the [expletive deleted] could Noah know with any” (posted 27 November 2013, accessed 28 November 2013), which rejects the Bible’s flood narrative based on the belief that other persons than Noah should have been able to survive,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 26, 2013 | Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
I’m not sure how this happened with all the barbed wire, “No Trespassing” signs, and roaming attack dogs on the property, but Monday of this week a local Jehovah’s Witness made it to my front door. (Actually, there were two, but I only...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 16, 2013 | In The News, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Earlier this week, an email from my local creation museum informed me that said museum had been refused membership in the area’s Museum Council. I’d spoken to employees and friends of the museum the day that some representatives of the Council had visited,...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Nov 16, 2013 | Annotated Quotations, Book (& Other) Reviews, Random Commentary, Trinity Foundation Reviews
Image: Foggy Foothpath © Copyright Dave Smethurst and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons License. One seminary I attended, Bethel Seminary San Diego, hosted lectures this week by a C. S. Lewis scholar. Though I did not attend the lectures, notice of...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Oct 1, 2013 | Random Commentary
In my recent review of Randy Guliuzza’s “Creation Apologetics” presentation, I at one point made reference to “medicine and engineering, two fields in which Guliuzza (you’ll recall) has credentialed expertise.” As I reflect on this...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 29, 2013 | Book (& Other) Reviews
Yesterday (Saturday 28 September 2013), the creation museum in my area held its yearly “Museum Day.” Though the event ran from 9 AM to 6 PM, with presentations by a range of speakers from Gary Parker to John Morris to Ray Comfort, I only managed to attend...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 23, 2013 | Book (& Other) Reviews
Swanson, Kevin. Apostate: The Men who Destroyed the Christian West. Parker, CO: Generations with Vision, 2013. ISBN 978-0-9853651-5-8. Overview And Recommendation “The Christian influence in the West has dissipated,” Swanson writes, “and my mission...