by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 8, 2012 | In The News
This was created as an op-ed for the U-T San Diego, my local paper, and posted here as a draft on the same day I emailed it to the U-T (that is, 08 December 2012, the day of the U-T article that prompted my remarks). It would not be made visible here until I either...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Sep 22, 2012 | Annotated Tweets
Image: 3D visualization suggesting DNA, a free to use Unsplash image by user Braňo. Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis and one of Pious Eye’s heroes, responds to Bill Nye, “The Science Guy,” who claims (among other things) that teaching evolution...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 25, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Richard Ganz condemns the growing popularity in Christian circles of such self-exploratory therapies as “healing of memories,” which Pious Eye would note (from his own observation and experience) seem very popular in seminary “spiritual...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 13, 2012 | Annotated Quotations
Martin and Deidre Bobgan assert that the prudent course for the pious is to choose biblical counseling over either secular psychotherapy or the many biblical-secular/pious-impious hybridizations offered as “Christian”” psychotherapy. Do you (like Pious...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 4, 2011 | Pet Peeves
No matter how clever, sophisticated, erudite, linguistically astute, or stunningly beautiful in its complexity your interpretive scheme may be, if it requires you to ignore or dismiss patently clear passages of Scripture, or to interpret them to mean what any honest...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 1, 2011 | Graduate Papers
Originally written for a course at Luther Rice University & Seminary in August 2011, under the title “Zen & The Art of Gospel-Evasion: An Interview with Commentary.” Outline PrefaceZen & The Art of Gospel-Evasion: An Interview with...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Aug 1, 2011 | Graduate Papers
Image: intentionally blurred picture of “winter railings” courtesy flickr’s tarrytown (creative commons license).”Originally written for a course at Luther Rice University & Seminary in August 2011, under the title “Zen: Accepting...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 30, 2007 | Annotated Quotations
In To Be As God: A Study of Modern Thought Since The Marquis de Sade (Ross House, 2003) Rousas John Rushdoony reiterates how the consistent immorality of the Marquis de Sade is the course most logically consistent with unbelief. Because [the Marquis de] Sade was so...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Jan 21, 2007 | Annotated Quotations
Photograph by Tomasz Sienicki, acquired through Wikimedia Commons and used under the CC BY 1.0 license. Cornelius Van Til, in The Defense of The Faith (Presbyterian and Reformed, 3rd revised edition, 1967), describes how any unity of thought and experience that the...
by Pious Eye (David M. Hodges) | Dec 19, 2006 | Annotated Quotations
H. P. Lovecraft, in his 1926 story “The Call of Cthulhu,” models how the unbelieving, the impious, should view the world around them—with horror, terrified. Were unbelief correct and Scripture no revelation, one would be quite reasonable to think as...