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Posted on July 30, 2016July 30, 2016

The Berenstain Bears and the Moral Minefield – The Dabbler, Jan 2015

This piece arose from reading about two very heated responses to the Berenstain Bears series of children’s books and cartoons.  The posthumous “Good riddance” to Mrs Berenstain in particular struck me…

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Posted on July 3, 2016July 3, 2016

On Sophocles and conflicting virtues: from “After Virtue” by Alasdair MacIntyre

The ancestor of one of these sets of answers is Plato, for whom as we have seen the virtues are not merely compatible with each other, but the presence of…

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Posted on June 12, 2016June 12, 2016

Perpetual Motion. Part 5 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010

Part 1 here.  Part 2 here Part 3 here . Part 4 here Full story here. This story is fairly typical of my rushed efforts of  a rather threadbare narrative and characterisation all around…

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Posted on June 10, 2016

From “Misreading Scripture With Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible” by E Randolph Richards and Brandon J O’Brien

In scripture, the godly life is portrayed as a lifelong work, not a list of don’ts. The active pursuit of virtue, particularly through the discipline practice of godly habits, is…

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Posted on June 10, 2016

From “When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible” by Timothy Michael Law

“it is unfortunate that these issues cause greater concern to modern readers for whom contradictions and inconsistencies pose problems, but in the world in which the Bible was shaping up…

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