Extra Thoughts

Lydia McGrew's personal, biblical studies, and apologetics blog

Friday, July 22, 2016

Seriously? A vote has no expressive content?

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As the bullying gears up all over the country to whip people in line to vote for D.T., I am struck yet again by something that strikes me ev...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

The Reticence of the Evangelists at W4

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I have a new post up at What's Wrong With the World on an argument for the veracity of the gospels from the reticence of the evangelist...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

One more bit of incoherence in the "trans" agenda

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The claims by "trans" activists are so blatantly postmodern, so riddled with incoherence, that most of the time I don't bother...
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Monday, July 04, 2016

Evangelism, individualism, conversion, and cradle Christianity

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Over at W4 I reported on the insane, repressive new laws just passed against "missionary activity" in Russia. Here's another ...
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Friday, July 01, 2016

Inflammatory language, perversions, and the church

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This new push to downplay pedophilia was shared with appropriate outrage on Facebook lately. What I want to point out here is the danger ...
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The dousing of the natural light

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In case there are any readers who follow Extra Thoughts but not What's Wrong With the World, my relatively recent post at W4 about a lo...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Webinar on Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts

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I will be speaking this Saturday at a free webinar on undesigned coincidences in the gospels and Acts, hosted by Online Apologetics Academy ...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Sentiment vs. Sainthood

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The aftermath of the recent jihad murders in Orlando, like the aftermath of every other mass shooting (and for that matter every celebrity ...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Being a blogger, being a scholar

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Another jihad mass murder has happened recently, this time targeting a homosexual bar. What is one to say? It's all been said before. Th...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

Straining to find a "genre"

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I have raised a number of doubts about the facile use of "genre" as a response to allegations of discrepancies in the gospels. I ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Why do bad doubts happen to good people?

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I've been thinking lately about deconversion stories. If one hangs around on the Internet long enough, one certainly runs across them. A...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Undesigned Coincidence in John 1

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Up at W4: A post on a new undesigned coincidence in John 1.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

New post on Licona, genre, reliability, and apologetics

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I have a new post up at What's Wrong with the World on the theories of New Testament scholar Michael Licona. One of the things that su...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2016

The one gleam of silver lining

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The news last night that not only had D.T. won the Republican primary in Indiana but also that Ted Cruz had suspended his campaign came as a...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Infinitely costly

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A few weeks ago, on Passion Sunday, it came to me in a flash that all of God's generosity, his gift of the "blessings of this life,...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The courage of Ken Miller

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I am not up to expressing eloquently how much Pastor Ken Miller should humble us, his fellow Christians. Here is his first update from fede...
Saturday, April 09, 2016

Abortion and punishing women

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Consider the following scenarios: --A man kills his wife in a hunting “accident.” The police are convinced that it was deliberate but know...
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Thursday, April 07, 2016

"Political Correctness"

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The followers (many of them very unpleasant indeed) of a certain political candidate (who should be a joke but unfortunately isn't) whos...
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