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Archive for January, 2008

Not So Neutral

Posted in Apologetics, Epistemology, Philosophy, Theology, tagged , , , , , , , on January 26, 2008 | 50 Comments »

This post has been sitting incomplete in my writing files for more than a year. I just needed a reason to complete it. Thanks to the discussion on the previous post, “Common Misconceptions of the Christmas Story” I was given new motivation and food for thought to complete it. Now, it is never been my custom [...]

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Common Misconceptions of the Christmas Story

Posted in Apologetics, Theology, tagged , , , , , , on January 9, 2008 | 73 Comments »

A good case can be made that this post is a bit untimely (not unlike my family’s Christmas cards which haven’t gone out yet), but I find that there’s a benefit in looking at this subject post-Christmas season. For one, the chances of yule-tide sentimentality obstructing a sober-minded look at the events of the Christmas story [...]

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Strange Google Searches: the Lutheran Edition

Posted in A Few of My Favorite Things, Strange Google Searches, There's Humor in Theology on January 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What do Lutherans and metaphysics have in common?
Uh….
Can Lutherans get drunk?
No, we cannot. We have a built in alchohol governor designed to measure alchohol intake and automatically shut off the inhibiting effects of alchohol just before we reach drunkeness. This is why you see lots of buzzed Lutherans but not very many drunk ones. Become a Lutheran [...]

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