Nine Theses on Wikipedia: A Special Feature
I submit these nine theses to Wikipedia’s community and to the world. I do this, as Martin Luther said when he posted his famous 95 theses, “Out of love for the truth and the desire to elucidate it.”
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Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum: Update and Invitation
We are well into our study of Aristotle in the Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum (STP), my reading group in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. This is hard, but essential to our task. But, you might ask, what is our task? Why would anybody spend weeks reading Aristotle’s Physics and Metaphysics? And why might you want to…
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A Harmony of the Passion Story
The following is a new “synthetic” Harmony of the Gospels—covering the passion story through the end of all four gospels. Following the harmony itself I will give notes on how I prepared this, defending various choices, etc. I aim to write an essay later explaining what can be learned from this sort of exercise. In…
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How I Use AI to Preview Movies
Or, why I hardly ever read movie reviews anymore Several times a week, I want a yes/no answer as to whether I would like a given movie. You see, one of my habits is to spend a 30–60 minutes a day after dinner watching (mostly) old movies. There are hundreds if not thousands of them…
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What is Plato’s positive argument from self-motion?
This is the longest answer I wrote, in the first month of writing for Seminarium Theologico-Philosophicum, commenting on Plato’s Laws, Book X, 893b–899d. We’re about to start Aristotle’s two arguments for a Prime Mover. (First chunk to read: Physics II.1–3.) You can sign up here. Details here. There is still a one-month-free option available, but…
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Why should Christians read philosophy?
Yesterday, I launched an online seminar in which we will read a bunch of philosophy of religion, as well as the more philosophical and apologetic parts of theology. When I told my wife that there were a lot more people willing to share the news than actually sign up (although we did gain 25 members…
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On genuine neutrality versus enforced consensus
There is a very serious problem about what goes under the title “consensus” in Wikipedia. Does not the very fact that a supposed consensus can represent a single, controversial position, and that it needs enforcement, suggest that it is not really consensus at all—and that the enforced position is not, in fact, neutral?
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In Praise of Small Bars of Soap
There is a kind of person—and mood, and outlook on life—for which slow-to-disappear bars of soap are a problem. You know what I mean. You start a new bar of soap. A week later, it is half its original size. It takes just a couple more weeks to become positively small. After that, it takes…
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A Historical Bibliography of Philosophy of Religion (according to LLMs, edited by humans)
This was generated by LLMs with a few additions and corrections by me (and you, I hope). I looked it over and corrected anything I thought wrong and improved anything needing improvement; but I cannot vouch that it is absolutely right. Philosophers and theologians! Please look over the figures you know about. Please post corrections…
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Should we affirm sola fide?
Note: This essay on the nature of faith and salvation was originally posted as part of a much longer series. Because it was buried in that series, like a chapter of a book, it did not get as much attention as I would wish. So I am now re-posting it, and will continue posting other answers to…
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A note on NPOV, ledes, and the erasure of dissent
The following comment originally appeared on a Wikipedia talk page. Posted on X: please retweet. I looked again at Wikipedia’s Gaza genocide article and, as I said last year, I don’t believe it follows Wikipedia’s standards for NPOV. Here are some reasons for my position: The first full statement in the article that admits that…
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/larrysanger- An open reply to Jimmy Wales. He's wrong: Grokipedia won't necessarily be biased; and, obviously, the Trump article is badly biased. First of a series of replies to Jimmy's remarks in this Reason exposé: https://reason.com/video/2026/02/23/can-you-trust-wikipedia/
- I invited my X peeps to ask me questions and then "like" the various questions, and I would upload the answers in video form. Here it is! Christian identity – 1:10 "Call no man teacher" – 9:25 Role of government – 15:45 Authority & resistance – 19:15 Wikipedia labor – 24:20 Net value of Wikipedia […]