Everyone has a favorite teacher. We’ve all learned quite a bit along the way, which means someone taught us, and, inevitably, some were better at teaching than others. I would describe one of my favorite teachers as “quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to t
08.9.2011| The Fish Tank | jihyechoi
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(For Part I, click here.) In the second part of this series, we bade farewell to the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy, and I promised you a way of determining which parts of the Bible we ought to believe. This now seems to me too ambitious a project for a single week, so instead I will divide it in
11.12.2010| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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(For the first part of this series, click here.) The Claim Some people believe that the Bible is inerrant. By this they mean that what the Bible says is invariably true, or that the Bible never goes wrong with respect to what it says, or that the Bible, properly interpreted, is always reliabl
10.22.2010| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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One of my favorite parts from The Brothers Karamazov (so far) is when Father Zosima is talking to the peasants who have come from far and wide to seek his counsel and healing. Although I was aware that such practices existed, having read about them in my atheist years, it was a bit jarring to realiz
07.13.2010| The Fish Tank | Jordan Monge
6 CommentsContinuing with the theme of things my high school friends have told me: Another friend of mine once said to me, “You know, Joe, I’m not very religious.” I remember being slightly surprised by his response – not because I thought he was particularly religious, but because I was not aw
05.28.2010| The Fish Tank | J. Joseph Porter
2 CommentsI originally wasn't planning on writing multiple posts about infant baptism, but Richard Beck's kindly saying that he was eager to follow my thoughts on the matter made me reconsider. I don't have anything terribly profound to say about infant baptism on top of what I've already said, but I woul
04.23.2010| The Fish Tank | J. Joseph Porter
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Today I'm going to give our readers something like a sneak peek of our next issue – coming out soon! – by discussing part of the contribution from Peter van Inwagen, John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame and all-around philosophical celebrity (best known for sticking it to a
04.19.2010| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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