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) | Feb 10, 2014 | Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere, Random Commentary
Not long ago, lack of reliable funding for automobile fuel had me visiting some churches a little closer to home than the one of which I’m officially a member. It also had me wishing that active involvement in a local church were not required by...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Feb 10, 2014 | Book (& Other) Reviews, Posted (or Sent) Elsewhere
Maoz, Baruch. Prophet on the Run: A Devotional Commentary on the Book of Jonah. Wapwallopen, PA: Shepherd Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1936908-844. If you’re like me, you tend to avoid books labeled “devotional” because you’ve usually found that they...
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 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 5, 2013 | In The News
Christians active in the battle against pornography have lately been excited by news of a not-yet-peer-reviewed Cambridge study popularly reported to prove that “porn addiction” is as real as addiction to drugs or alcohol. When I first heard about this (in...
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
Note: Some format fixes to this old post, completed in June 2023, may cause some direct links I’ve provided to paragraphs to be off a bit. The anchors for these direct links are created by code when posts load, so changes to the posts change the anchors. I...