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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
How it works…
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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Unherd opinions
I frankly had no idea that this Unherd interview would blow up the way it did. Not only did the interview itself get a lot of traffic, it ended up being shared and
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Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever
“All encyclopedic content on Wikipedia,” declares a policy page, “must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV).” This is essential policy, believe it or not. Maybe that will be hard to
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A first attempt at using WordPress for microblogging
Here is the brand spanking new Larry Sanger Microblog, which lives at a domain I had sitting around doing nothing: http://StartThis.org. As you’ll see, it looks a little like a social media feed.
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What Decentralization is Going to Require
Decentralization. It’s not just a hip happnin’ buzzword. And it’s not just for blockchain. It has been important, and it always has been—I was using it back in 2005 to describe the early
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We Want to Pay for a Good, Functioning WordPress Microposting Plugin
Skip down to the plugin requirements section We are deeply upset at Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all the rest. Blocking President Trump from these giant corporate networks was just the last straw. Most
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Five-Year Humanities Plan
By request, here is the “five-year plan” that my older son is following. Introduction and educational strategy What this document is. This is a roadmap for the next five years of your course
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An ActivityPub WordPress plugin
Matthias Pfefferle has made a WordPress plugin that converts your blog into a very, very stripped-down Fediverse server. What this means, basically, is that if you install this plugin on your WordPress blog,
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An idea for theological self-education
I almost wrote: “a crazy idea for theological self-education” Let me describe what I am doing, and how I might want to go on doing it in the future. This description has two
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A Good Man
Imagine—let us give him a name—Joshua. We say he is a good man. To say so in general is to say that he supports and preserves life wherever it is found. This is
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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!