I recently made an appearance on two episodes of The Sitter Downers. The following is a list of all the resources I spoke about while on the show.

Apologetics Resources

• Impact Apologetics
• The Complete Work of Charles Darwin

Free Learning Resources

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• MSDN Academic Alliance Repository
• Covenant Worldwide

November Voting Guides

• NRA PVF
• Project Vote Smart
• Illinois Family Institute

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary inside a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant when a man approached the counter and placed an order. But then he demanded of the cashier, “Give me the money before I shoot you.” Initially, Paul Sherlock joined the other customers as they bolted for the door. But then he stopped out of concern for the cashier. He recalled a June 2005 incident in which a carjacker shot at him. That was the day he decided to buy a gun and apply for a carry permit. Police say Sherlock faced the suspect, then pulled out his 9 mm pistol. The suspect put his hands in the air and Sherlock ordered him to lean against a window. Police apprehended the man without incident. The accused’s “gun” turned out to be a screwdriver.
Indianapolis Star Indianapolis, Ind., 08/19/06

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Well, it’s that time again. The battery on the old phone isn’t holding a charge any longer, and we were eligible to upgrade. I chose the cheapest phone available this time around rather than going for bells and whistles–and I love it. The Nokia 6030 is a bar style phone, which is kind of throw back to the old days, but it looks sharp, has great reception, a bright screen, and all the features I need in a phone. My service provider is AT&T (Formerly Cingular), and thus far I haven’t had any problems with them. If it’s time for a new phone and you have any specific questions feel free to ask me and I’ll do the best I can to answer.

It could be argued that one of the most dangerous problems to attack the Church in the last century and half is an outgrowth of the experience-based “conversion farms” of the spiritual awakenings in America–namely, anti-intellectualism. Although certainly not born during the awakenings, one concrete example of this anti-intellectualism is fideism.

Fideism is “exclusive or basic reliance upon faith alone accompanied by a consequent disparagement of reason” (Webster’s Third International Dictionary).

Read more about fideism from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.