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Read philosophy with me.
A brainy Christian reading group in philosophy of religion and theology—close reading, hard questions, serious but friendly discussion. Let’s go!
What’s included…
- Weekly reading assignments
- My in-depth Q&As
- Subscriber-only essays
- Prayers
- A growing PDF library, including drafts of God Exists
- See the seminar plan
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No grades. Read at your own pace, but I aim for about 10–20 pages per week. Level: advanced undergraduate to graduate. More about how it works.
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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.”
My Blog
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Wikipedia’s proposed legal policies
It looks like Wikipedia might be, finally, accepting its legal obligations. Geoff Brigham, General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation (which is the legal owner of Wikipedia), has posted to the Foundation-l mailing list a
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25 Replies to Maria Bustillos
In a recent essay, in The Awl (“Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert”), Maria Bustillos commits a whole series of fallacies or plain mistakes and, unsurprisingly, comes to some quite wrong conclusions.
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Can early education literally create geniuses?
I’m interested in this question, and I am asking in order to be enlightened by you, dear reader. Suppose you had twins, separated at birth, Norman (for “normal”) and Gene (for “genius”). Norman
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Ask DadDude: learning a second language
I regularly get questions from people asking advice about their early learning situations. I always tell them that I’m not an expert, just a fellow parent who is highly involved in his boys’
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Any volunteers to help with the reading tutorial?
I need some volunteers for my new free reading program, and I hope someone (or several someones) out there might be able to help! I really need it! If you are interested, please
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Reviews of educational apps for little kids
Here are some app reviews I just posted on BrillKids.com. Below that are some older reviews, still valid. Five star apps National Geographic World Atlas HD – 5/5 – can’t believe I
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Manifesto of Very Early Education (version 1)
I have been “pre-homeschooling” my two boys, H. (almost five years) and E. (seven months). It has been an interesting journey. I have picked a few very general principles, which I thought it
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My response to the CFCC’s FTC complaint about YBCR
[All: here is my letter in support of Robert Titzer and Your Baby Can, in response to this scurrilous complaint by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. I encourage you to send the
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Update on WatchKnow Reader progress (April)
We are hip-deep in the initial building phase of the project. We’ve got a demo going (nothing suitable for public consumption yet though) and made a lot of adjustments to the plan. The
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Chapter books H. and I read
Here is our list (by request), recently updated. This includes only chapter books and a few others, excluding picture books, most science books, and little-kid storybooks, regardless how thick. I also didn’t include books
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Support the Knowledge Standards Foundation:
/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 […]
- Made for beginners, family, friends, study group members. Most of this stuff is obvious after you use LLMs long enough. If you have more good ideas, put them in comments!