Extra Thoughts

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

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Signaling importance

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It's correct in some cases to say that society can show its disapproval of some evil actions only by reacting to those actions in certai...
Monday, September 19, 2016

"O Valiant Hearts"

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Well, here I am in mid-September putting up a post that fits better with Memorial Day or Veterans' Day. The explanation is quite simple:...
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Thursday, September 08, 2016

John Derbyshire's hatred of the good

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I'm long behind the times. In fact, I'm about to write about a book review that was written just over a decade ago. I'm quite su...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Reverence, fundamentalism, and modern evangelicalism

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Recently I heard on the radio that an adult coloring Bible has been published by Zondervan. The Babylon Bee has been satirizing the proli...
Sunday, August 28, 2016

This is the true face of the alt-right

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I enjoy having full comments moderation turned on here at Extra Thoughts. It allows me to filter the nastiness I get in response to posts li...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

A profound comment

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This post isn't going to rise to my usual level of deep commentary. But I can't resist. I have just one deep comment on the last f...
Monday, August 22, 2016

"And Now the Wants Are Told"

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Here is a good hymn text sorely in need of a new tune. And now the wants are told, that brought thy children to thy knee; here lingering s...
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Sunday, August 14, 2016

But wait! There's more! Refuting a claim of discrepancy in the gospels

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My apologies to my readers for being away from this blog for so long. Here's a meaty apologetics/New Testament post to make up for the h...
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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 ...
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