The Historical Argument Against the Minimum Wage
Guest post by: Ben R. Crenshaw In my last post I argued that the minimum wage is immoral since it violates social contract law by forcing...
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Douglas Groothuis
Sep 10, 20153 min
Theology of Suffering
Guest post by: Chad Ellison The phenomenon of suffering is at once alien and common. It is not difficult for most of us to hear and...
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Douglas Groothuis
Aug 28, 20153 min
The Philosophy of the Pause
Pauses are imperiled today. An unintended pause on the radio is dead air. Pause in a conversation—to find the right word, right example,...
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Douglas Groothuis
Aug 27, 20154 min
The Moral Argument Against the Minimum Wage
Guest post by: Ben R. Crenshaw The minimum wage has been in the news recently, as there are a number of movements to raise the minimum...
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Douglas Groothuis
Aug 25, 20153 min
The PersonalPhilosophyTrainer (PPT)
Always looking for more applications of philosophy to life, I have come up with a sure-fire winner: the PhilosophyPersonalTrainer (or...
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Douglas Groothuis
Aug 19, 20153 min
A Recently Recovered Screwtape Letter
A Recently Recovered Screwtape Letter 0n Words My Dear Wormwood: I lick my parched lips with delight that our propaganda efforts are...
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Douglas Groothuis
Aug 10, 20153 min
Episodes in a Reading Life: Smith Family Bookstore, Eugene, Oregon
Smith Family Book Store is the tag on hundreds of my books. It would take too long to count them. Places shape souls. This place, a used...
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Douglas Groothuis
Aug 5, 20154 min
The High Court & Culture
Guest Post by Chad E. Graham When the high court rules, the people listen. Yet, the people do more than simply listen when the Supreme...
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Douglas Groothuis
Aug 5, 20154 min
Gravity and Levity
Meaning demands wisdom and wisdom demands truth. Life is short and we need discernment to separate the wheat from the chaff, the...
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Douglas Groothuis
Jul 30, 20156 min
The Dangerous Lies of False Prophets: Lessons from the Prophet Micah
The Bible is not a romantic or utopian book. Sweet talk is absent (except The Song of Songs). Because of the fall and the perennial and...
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Douglas Groothuis
Jul 23, 20153 min
The Trump Card: Popularity Over Substance
Guest Post by Chad E. Graham Reading the news this morning, I discovered that Donald Trump, a Hollywood celebrity and business magnate,...
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Douglas Groothuis
Jul 20, 20156 min
The Real Slippery Slope: Logic, Fallacy, and American Decline
Logic warns the wary of many fallacies. Everyone should master this canon of error—or you will be mastered by it. A logical fallacy is a...
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Douglas Groothuis
Jul 17, 20153 min
Blood Money: Antinatalism, Logic, and Life
A recently-released video claims that the body parts of very young and recently murdered humans are auctioned off to the highest bidder...
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Douglas Groothuis
Jul 8, 20152 min
Should We Legislate Morality?
One objection to Christian involvement in law and politics is that it is somehow wrong to “legislate morality.” Given the heat generated...
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Douglas Groothuis
Jul 2, 20156 min
The Philosophy of Gender
Ideas have consequences, but few understand how the consequences are rooted in, and flow from, those ideas. Inextricably related issues...
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Douglas Groothuis
Jun 27, 20151 min
A Challenge to Christians Who Support Same-Sex Marriage
My challenge to self-identified Christians who support same-sex marriage: 1. Establish what your basis of moral authority is. 2. If it...
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Douglas Groothuis
Jun 12, 20152 min
A Time for Truth and Courage
Tony Campolo now supports “the full inclusion” of homosexuals and lesbians in the church. This article Campolo has never been a...
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Douglas Groothuis
Jun 12, 20152 min
Christian and Eastern Silence
“The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.” exhorts the prophet Hosea (2:20). Our world is famished for...
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Douglas Groothuis
May 8, 20151 min
Let Books be Books
Many books today seem afraid to rely on pure text. They are books that seem to be embarrassed to be what they are: books, that is,...
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Douglas Groothuis
Apr 6, 20153 min
On the Word “Faith”
What is faith? The word, like many words that fall out of our mouths, is often misunderstood and misused. No little problems result from...
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