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Anti-Dismal (Free subscription) | yesterday
A new study on Religious Identity and Economic Behavior by Daniel J. Benjamin, James J. Choi and Geoffrey Fisher finds that Protestants were more likely than Jews or Catholics to contribute money to a public pool. The Protestants also worked hardest for wages in a labour market game. The paper's abstract reads, We identify the marginal effect of religious identity on economic choices by measuring how...
Bandits No More (Free subscription) | yesterday
Notes on N.T. Wright, Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision, Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2009. Chapter 7 – Romans The biggest failure of traditional (“Old Perspective”) readings of Romans is the failure to include key portions of the letter in the argument. When read traditionally, the parts of Romans 2 that talk about the role of works, [...]
Commentary - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Secularists are exampled by Joy Behar on The View. She is with conviction a non-believer who holds that this life is all there is. No deity....
Ekklesia (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
A bust of Protestant reformer John Calvin has recently been unveiled in a park in Havana, Cuba, as a way to cap a year-long celebration of his 500th birthday.
A conservative blog for peace (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
A war on coca nobody believes inFrom CounterPunch
Free Market Mojo (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
We identify the marginal effect of religious identity on economic choices by measuring how laboratory subjects’ choices change when their religious identity is made salient to them. We find that Protestantism increases contributions to public goods, and there is suggestive evidence that it increases reciprocity in a labor market gift-exchange game. Catholicism decreases contributions to public...
Irenic Thoughts (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
In tomorrow's Gospel reading , we get an enigmatic exchance between Pilate and Jesus on the day of his crucifixion. John tells us: Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus answered, "Do you ask this on your own, or did others tell you about me?" Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the...
Coolopolis (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The Life magazine photo , above displays an innovative worship service at Christ Church Cathedral on St. Catherine in 1966. Top local Reverend William Bothwell confessed that the attempt to lure youngsters into the church cost them some members. The initiative was organized by New York Presbyterian William Glenesk. As you can see, Glenesk was quite a wacky offbeat unconventional character. He got...
The Little Professor (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Benjamin Gough (1805-77), a Wesleyan Methodist, achieved some moderate renown as a poet and hymnodist. His Our National Sins: A Poem of Warning and Exhortation appeared posthumously in 1878, and was dedicated to the evangelical reformer Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the Seventh...
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
How Will Religion Evolve? , asks John Tierney. He notes: If there is a religious instinct, how do we make sense of the declining church attendance in western Europe? As an agnostic myself, I've tended to see the European trend as a harbinger of a general move toward secularism as societies become richer and more educated. But you don't see that trend in the United States, where church attendance is...
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
In case you didn't know, the SDA Archive has more than the GSS. For example, something called the Dutch Prejudice Survey 1998 . Poking around, I confirmed a general trend you see in the GSS, more educated people tend to be ideologically polarized: Though I am skeptical that more education makes one more intelligent, I do think that education can make one more reflective about one's beliefs and align...
Cor ad cor loquitur (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
See the introduction and links to all installments at the top of my John Calvin, Calvinism, and General Protestantism web page; also the online version of the Institutes . Calvin's words will be in blue throughout. All biblical citations (in my portions) will be from RSV unless otherwise noted. * * * * * Book IV CHAPTER 16 PÆDOBAPTISM. ITS ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF CHRIST, AND THE NATURE...
Cor ad cor loquitur (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
See the introduction and links to all installments at the top of my John Calvin, Calvinism, and General Protestantism web page; also the online version of the Institutes . Calvin's words will be in blue throughout. All biblical citations (in my portions) will be from RSV unless otherwise noted. * * * * * Book IV CHAPTER 16 PÆDOBAPTISM. ITS ACCORDANCE WITH THE INSTITUTION OF CHRIST, AND THE NATURE...
Talk Islam (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I wonder if people here remember my hypothesis of the lack of intellectualism in modern protestantism? Well……here is John Derbyshire at the Secular Racists blog agreeing with me. The Death of Intellectual Protestantism. a a
Secular Right (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Mr. Bradlaugh’s post on the death of intellectual Protestantism, the highbrow aspect of what we normally term “Mainline Protestantism,” prompts to revisit some data which I’ve reported before, but want to reiterate. First, the old Protestant denominations which have dominated our culture and set the terms of the debate in terms of what it means to [...]
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