NCAA Tournament

at 03/20/10 7:28PM
Madness, indeed. Forget the upsets, I'm talking about all of the traveling that's going uncalled this year. I fear that the college game is following the path of the pros. The integrity of the game is slipping. Three steps at a time.
  • diminished_seventh
    I keep yelling at refs for not calling all the palming. It's getting ridiculous.
    by diminished_seventh at 03/20/10 11:31PM
  • micah
    agreed--refs have been underwhelming at best. same in the nit. unc had to overcome a horrible call at the end of its game to survive today. also, I think this will be the weakest sweet sixteen i've ever seen. kentucky, syracuse, and maybe west virginia should (i think this year i need to repeat SHOULD) have a field day.
    by micah at 03/21/10 12:07AM
  • ninja_penguin
    HAHA! Kansas lost! To NORTHERN IOWA! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
    by ninja_penguin at 03/21/10 12:56AM

New to the Heritage of Faith Library

at 03/17/10 2:25PM
DeWard Publishing Company is pleased to announce its latest release: McGarvey and Pendleton's The Fourfold Gospel has been added to the DeWard Heritage of Faith Library.

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The Fourfold Gospel is a classic harmony of the gospels by J. W. McGarvey and Philip Y. Pendleton with interspersed comments. Attractively re-typeset, this enduring work is a valuable resource to modern Bible students.



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“In most commentaries a fifth or sixth of the space is taken up in drawing distinctions between the texts of the four Gospels, while in this work these distinctions are placed before the reader’s eye, where he can see them for himself at a glance.”
—Excerpted from Introduction

underdog

at 03/16/10 9:46PM
I always liked Underdog when I was growing up.

Over the last several months, Silas' sleep schedule has allowed (forced?) us to watch several episodes of Scrubs that we wouldn't have watched otherwise, as they air at 12:30 AM. We've not watched it a whole lot in general, so most of the episodes we see are new to us. One of them had an a capella group singing the Underdog theme. It's been stuck in my head for a while, so now I'm trying to infect you with it. Enjoy.

  • curlie
    The men's a cappella group at U of I used to sing that at every concert. :)
    by curlie at 03/16/10 10:28PM
  • jlmanager
    There's so much they do that is stinking hilarious...if only you didn't have to wade through the rest of it.
    by jlmanager at 03/17/10 12:07AM
  • ninja_penguin
    The Blanks are so wonderful.
    by ninja_penguin at 03/17/10 11:08AM

usf basketball

at 03/11/10 9:52AM
After yesterday's poor performance against Georgetown, it looks like USF will be headed to the NIT. It's easy to be disappointed that they couldn't win just one or two more, especially after the surprisingly good season they had. This, of course, would be to miss the bigger picture. If you'd told me before the season that USF would make the NIT field (winning 20 games and going .500 in Big East play), I would have been thrilled. Yeah, they've been that bad recently. To have even been in the conversation for an NCAA Tournament bid at this point in the season far exceeded any rational fan's expectation. Sure, it's sad that they didn't beat St. Johns or Notre Dame a couple of weeks ago, and that their second-best player was injured for two months, and so forth. But the reality is that this year was a huge step in the right direction. And as long as Jones doesn't leave for the draft, things look really promising for next year.

With any luck, they'll get to host a game or two in the NIT, and tickets will be reasonable priced (or maybe even free...).
  • jules
    There was a contestant on Wheel of Fortune tonight that was the spittin image of Brooke...but I'm confident there would have been a post, had it been her. :)
    by jules at 03/11/10 10:55PM
  • ward
    Hmm. Would be news to me if she'd made a trip out west for a Wheel appearance.
    by ward at 03/12/10 12:16AM
  • diminished_seventh
    Yep, great season. I've never really bothered to follow their bball until this season, but Dominique was fun to watch.
    by diminished_seventh at 03/12/10 12:56AM

new release from DeWard

at 03/05/10 12:44PM
DeWard Publishing Company is pleased to announce its latest release: William Paley's Natural Theology has been added to the DeWard Heritage of Faith Library.

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Natural Theology features William Paley’s classic defense of the teleological argument for the existence of God. His watchmaker analogy is still a favorite of many as a starting point for showing that such complexity cannot possibly have come into existence without an intelligent mind creating it. The DeWard edition contains a new foreword by Dr. Doy Moyer.



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Paley’s arguments for God and for Christianity still provide the backbone for much of contemporary apologetics.
Norman Geisler, Co-Founder of Southern Evangelical Seminary, author of Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics

Modern apologists will do well to read and study the classical arguments. The strong appeal to logic and reason, as is evidenced in Paley, is a contrast to the feel-good subjective arguments often presented in the present postmodern world.
Doy Moyer, Professor of Philosophy and Biblical Studies, Florida College
  • figpicker
    but, logic may not make you feel good and therefore is always to be rejected as self-esteem is the most important thing.
    by figpicker at 03/05/10 9:15PM
  • diminished_seventh
    Go Bulls. Did you make it onto national TV?
    by diminished_seventh at 03/06/10 4:30PM
  • ward
    Not that we know of. Although during one of the timeout 'fun' segments, we were briefly on the big screen.
    by ward at 03/08/10 10:41AM
  • slave_of_jesus_jdb
    Do not mistake the remarks of the doctor. Its okay to make feel-good arguments alongside logical arguments. Its okay to feel good about your faith. Emotions are important. The Bible wouldn't remind us so much of how God is with us and loves us if they weren't.
    by slave_of_jesus_jdb at 03/09/10 4:35PM
  • ward
    Nor would God have created emotions if there were something wrong with them. I think you're right: supposing that emotions are unimportant or that feeling good about one's faith is somehow improper is a misunderstanding of Dr. Moyer's point.
    by ward at 03/09/10 10:40PM