No man is indispensable
By Aaron Lord
”No man is indispensable.” —French proverb“If I resign today there will be chaos.” —Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak
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Essential iPhone Apps
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What Happened to the Fertile in Fertile Crescent?
By Aaron LordIn ancient times [...] much of the Fertile Crescent and eastern Mediterranean region, including Greece, was covered with forest. The region's transformation from fertile woodland to eroded scrub or desert has been elucidated by paleobotanists and archaeologists. Its woodlands were cleared for agriculture, or cut to obtain construction timber, or... [Read More] -
Pete Enns on the Dark Night of the Soul
By Aaron LordThere is a benefit of doubt. Doubt is a gift of God to move us from trusting ourselves to trusting him.Doubt forces us to examine what we believe about God—and this can be unsettling. What we thought was our “faith in God” sometimes winds up being little more than faith... [Read More] -
"God Lisps": Calvin on the Incarnational Nature of God’s Word
By Aaron LordThe Anthropomorphites also, who imagined God to be corporeal, because the Scripture frequently ascribes to him a mouth, ears, eyes, hands, and feet, are easily refuted. (For who, even of the meanest capacity, understands not, that God lisps, as it were, with us, just as nurses are accustomed to speak... [Read More] -
September 15, 2007, the first day of the rest of our lives
By Aaron LordOn this day in 2007, I took Christina out on our first date, to see 3:10 to Yuma–which is a very good movie, by the way. I would have preferred to go the night before but she had plans with her girlfriends. After the movie we went to Starbucks and... [Read More] -
Are you worldly?
By Aaron Lord“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 (ESV) [Read More] -
Baxter, cross-processed
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Natural Revelation and the Framework Hypothesis
By Aaron LordMany, no doubt, will turn in impatience from the inquiry—all those, namely, who have settled the question in such a way that they cannot conceive of it being reopened. Such, for example, are the pietists, of whom there are still many. "What," they say, "is the need of argument in... [Read More] -
Jon Hopkins: Insides
By Aaron LordI was introduced to Jon Hopkins while watching the organ donor scene in the series finale of NBC’s Mercy. The scene was accompanied by a droning violin track, the kind of bagpipe-emulating, medieval-viol-esque drone I have been known to bust out on my own fiddle ever since I was started... [Read More]