Epistemology Has Consequences: Is ‘Knowledge’ Determined by Identity Markers Only?
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“This shift has landed us in what can be called ‘standpoint epistemology.’ … the view that everything we think and know, and even what we consider knowledge to be, is determined solely by our race, ’gender,’ sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and other identity categories.” - Breakpoint
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Is It Ever Right To Lie Like Rahab?
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“Was she right to lie? What does that say to us about our own relationship with truth? Can we ever tell a similar lie? There are other instances in the Bible where similar lies are told.” - Don Johnson
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Moral seriousness and the post-Christian right
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“The permanent things don’t cease to be true merely because folks in our political tribe flout the commands of Jesus.” - Denny Burk
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Catholic, Not Roman: Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses of Love for the Church
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“Luther’s theses exhibited zeal, even serious consternation, but behind his bold discontent was a deeper motive—love. Love for God and love for his church.” - TGC
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How Can I Know What’s True?
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“the Bible not only teaches us ultimate truths about man, the world, salvation, the future, and a host of other subjects that make up a worldview, it also gives us the very principles by which we can know what’s true.” - Ligonier
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Conservatives win by playing the long game
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“To live a conservative life is to live out the conviction that there are some things more important than politics: faith, family, community…. the long hard hours of being a spouse and a parent, a church elder or Little League coach…. It is also to prize truth above all else, even effectiveness.” - WORLD
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Loving the Truth and Speaking in Love
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“…the danger of swinging from one error to another is not a new phenomenon. It is as old as the fall. Though it comes in new sociological and philosophical packages, the human heart has always revolted against embracing, loving, propagating and defending the truth about God.” - Nick Batzig
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Christian faithfulness and the ‘based mind virus’ – Evangelicals must reject both far-left and far-right lies
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“Offending woke sensibilities can be exciting, and it can gain you plaudits from your own tribe. Of course, the question is how far you will go in this endeavor, and how honestly you engage the issues.” - World
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Worries mount about misinformation in science
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“ ‘The real problem isn’t people. It’s the reward structure on social platforms’…. the incentives for scientists to publish and for journals to attract readers, jargon and other features of scientific publishing — can also contribute” - Axios
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