Anti-Statism, Relativism, Prosperity Gospel, etc.
Nov 20, 2009 Cedarville, links, music, philosophy, television
So I took a trip to Myanmar this week. I’ll blog about it later. In the meantime I have a bunch of tabs of stuff I’ve been meaning to share and I’ll have to just dump them w/o much comment because they’re slowing down Firefox. The Atlantic: “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?” by Hanna Rosin. [...]
Tags: Arcade Fire, Arrested Development, Christianity, homosexuality, Judd Apatow, postmodernism, Prosperity Gospel, Ray Lamontagne, recession, relativism, statism
God’s Word Has a Liberal Bias
Oct 8, 2009 Cedarville, politics, theology
The Conservative Bible Project is a tragi-comic effort by some politically conservative Christians to produce a translation paraphrase of the Bible that removes/edits anything that can even remotely be considered “liberal.” It’s not worth writing much about this because the problems with this approach should be so LOLobvious that I won’t waste my time. I [...]
Tags: beatitudes, bias, Bible, Conservapedia, conservatism, justice, liberalism, non-violence, pacifism, peace, prejudice, war, WorldNetDaily, Worldview Weekend
Where Gay Apologists Go Wrong
May 28, 2009 Cedarville, philosophy, politics, theology
I really hesitate to write this post, but a confluence of factors has prompted me: Carrie Prejean’s Miss America drama, the CA Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold Prop 8, and a friend’s thoughtful response to that decision. Furthermore, now that I am done with C.U. I am free to write my opinions without fear [...]
Tags: anthropology, Bryce, Carrie Prejean, Eugene Cho, gay marriage, homosexuality, Prop 8, Romans
CU Finances Pt. 4 — Miscellany
May 13, 2009 Cedarville
Sorry for the delay, but here’s the last post in our series on the financial health of Cedarville University. In this last segment I simply want to relay some miscellaneous stuff I came across that didn’t fit really well elsewhere. In case you’re curious, when Cedarville went Baptist in 1953, tuition was $58/hr; when my [...]
Tags: Bill Brown, Biola University, Cedars, Cedarville, Chuck's, David Haffey, Grace College, Irene Alyn, Masters College, Pioneer Caterers, Wheaton College
CU Finances Pt. 3
May 6, 2009 Cedarville
In this third installment (part one & two here) of my series on Cedarville University’s finances I want to compare our revenue & expenses with that of our sister schools. Again we’ll look at the 2006-2007 school year, and keep in mind that everything is adjusted for inflation.
Tags: Anderson University, Biola University, Calvin College, Cedars, Cedarville, Cedarville University, Gordon College, Grace College, John Brown University, Wheaton College
Dumpster Diving for Fun & Profit
May 4, 2009 Cedarville, personal
This weekend was busy: finally graduated college, hung out with frieds & family, threw out my arm playing Wii rowing, watched Celtics mop up Bulls, then watched Manny Pacquaio flatten Ricky Hatton in under 6 minutes (“I didn’t know it’d be so easy,” said Manny before leaving for hours of celebratory karaoke). I also spent [...]
Tags: capitalism, Cedarville, consumerism, dumpster diving, garbage, Kraig, Laura, Scott, trash
CU Finances Pt. 2 — Financial Aid
Apr 30, 2009 Cedarville
It seems counter-intuitive that in a bad recession Cedarville University would deliberately increase the cost of attendance so dramatically. Yet their explanation for this is that more money will be diverted to financial aid to ease the burden of needy students. Their already-established goal is to increase aid by 20% every year, though since ’02-’03 [...]
Tags: Anderson College, Biola University, Bryan College, Calvin College, Cedars, Cedarville, college, Cornerstone University, enrollment, financial aid, Geneva College, Gordon College, Grace College, John Brown University, Malone University, Masters College, Messiah College, Mt Vernon Nazarene University, Olivet Nazarene University, Taylor University, university, Wheaton College
Cedarville By the Numbers
Apr 29, 2009 Cedarville
The epic Cedars article I was working on before being laid off was a piece loosely centered around next year’s tuition hike. My task was to research CU’s finances to provide some context and do a comparative analysis with other similar schools. The project was about 85% completed when we got axed, so I’m going [...]
Tags: Cedars, Cedarville, college, school, tuition
Cedars Pt. II
Apr 23, 2009 Cedarville
LOL Christianity Today… (edit: Chronicle of Higher Education gets in on the action too). More importantly… Cedars‘ letter to the campus + Ruby’s letter to the campus:
Moar Ceedurrrs Dramas
Apr 22, 2009 Cedarville
A brief history of Cedars, Cedarville University’s student newspaper, circa 2008-2009: September ’08: We start publishing. A deliberate effort is made to add conservative voices to the Viewpoints section. October ’08: I write an editorial criticizing Gov. Sarah Palin. Paige Patterson, a CU trustee, is not very amused and tells the board as much. I [...]
Tags: Cedars, Cedarville, John Gredy, Josh Saunders, Paige Patterson, Palin, Rebecca High, Sarah Jones, Scott Calhoun, Sharyn Kopf, trustees
The Peter Enns Situation
Dec 5, 2008 Cedarville
Do you know this story? It’s that one about the conservative Christian school with a Calvinist bent where “you don’t have to be very liberal to be viewed as ‘left’.” A school where faculty have been split (even to the point of a vote), struggling significantly with “persistent faculty disunity” because “several years of faculty [...]
Tags: Peter Enns, Westminster
Computers? That’s so Cedarville!
Nov 27, 2008 Cedarville, images
This is an ad for Cedarville College in the The Baptist Bulletin, January 1969. The student pictured is my dad, a junior chemistry major at the time. Click for larger version.
Tags: Cedarville, computers
Look Ma, I’m makin’ friends!
May 3, 2008 Cedarville, images, philosophy, politics
Some people were apparently less than amused with my last Cedars article: This was mailed to me on Wednesday. The unsigned note says “Do You have eany Idea how Many Good Men Died for your freedom of speech. This is how you honor Their Memory. I bet you Feel Proud.” College-level reasoning at its best! [...]
Tags: Cedars, Cedarville, hatemail, non-violence, pacifism
A Young Person’s Guide to OMGWTF
Apr 23, 2008 Cedarville, images, personal, reading
Alpha Sigma hosted a used book sale this week to raise money for the org — and we earned enough extra to buy a llama, a goat, and two chickens through WorldVision. We named them Kierkegaard (llama), Nietzsche (goat), Plato and Aristotle (chickens), which is sure to thrill the 3rd world family that receives them. [...]
Tags: Aristotle, Jenna, Kierkegaard, Mallory, Missy, Nietzsche, Plato, sex
April Fool’s
Apr 1, 2008 Cedarville, writing
The April Fool’s edition of Cedars is out now. Three of my articles were published, while this one got cut:
Tags: Cedars, Cedarville
Response to Sharyn Kopf
Dec 15, 2007 Cedarville, philosophy, politics
Sharyn Kopf is the latest pro-lifer to get a little worked up over my abortion editorial from a month ago. On its most basic level, that editorial argued the following: 1. If we don’t know if embryos are persons, then neither ‘side’ ought to be dogmatic about their position. 2. It is the case that [...]
Tags: abortion, Murray Vasser, pro-choice, pro-life, Sharyn Kopf, weak thought
Letter from Sharyn Kopf
Dec 13, 2007 Cedarville, philosophy, politics
To the zygote turned gamete who wrote the abortion article: Perhaps you should have subtitled it, “Aw, why can’t we all just get along?†Since there seems to be an aversion to using scripture to support these dubious shades of grayâ€â€choosing, rather, to demote Psalm 139 to the status of “beautiful,†as if it’s merely [...]
Tags: abortion
Response to Murray Vasser
Dec 9, 2007 Cedarville, philosophy, politics
Murray Vasser, President of CU Students For Life, had his rebuttal published in the latest issue of Cedars. My fisking is long overdue: Over the past few years, I have been involved in organizing events to protest the genocide in Darfur. I was encouraged by the enthusiasm with which students spoke out in defense of [...]
Tags: abortion
Weakening the Abortion Debate
Nov 26, 2007 Cedarville, philosophy, politics
I got published. The November 15th issue of Cedars featured this editorial and a review of The Darjeeling Limited. Next issue, out December 6th, should have my review of Yeasayer’s debut album “All Hour Cymbals.” Perhaps I’ll post those two reviews later. For now, here’s the abortion article with – bonus! – my comments in [...]
Tags: abortion, Cedars, personhood
Students Against Life
Sep 25, 2007 Cedarville, philosophy, politics
Ok, let me flog this dead horse one last time and then I’ll shut up about it. This is the e-mail we received yesterday from a campus organization called “Students For Life”: Protest Abortion “Open your mouth for those who cannot speak, and for the rights of those who are left without help.” – Proverbs [...]
Tags: abortion, personhood, Students for Life