On making arguments for religious freedom
Alan Jacobs asks us to look beyond the here and now when we consider the value of religious freedom: The farther we project from our own moment the harder it is...
Month: July 2014
A confident pluralism
John Inazu expands his thoughts on pluralism and Christianity in the Southern California Law Review. From the abstract: A confident pluralism seeks to maximize ...
John Inazu responds
I appreciate the time John Inazu took the time to thoughtfully respond to my post on his Christianity Today essay. For now I think it’s best I post it wit...
Pluralism, Christians, and moral discourse
In a thoughtful essay on religious freedom, pluralism and LGBT rights, John Inazu asks a lot of non-Christians: Pluralism does not entail relativism. Living wel...
It’s all skills, ctd.
To continue the skills debate, let me try to show why the phrase “knowing how to think” isn’t very helpful and why concrete skills matter more...
It’s all skills all the way down
Freddie DeBoer sets up a false dichotomy between learning specific skills vs. learning “how to think”: Individuals can navigate the markets, if they...
There may be no great harm done
I’ve been working my way through my summer reading list. I came across a gem of a quote in Jacob Bronowski’s Science and Human Values. Bronowski quo...
Stray links
Some stray links to entertain you over the long weekend: Adam Laats notes that the U.S. government employs creationist scientists: Well, duh! Since asking relig...