Randy Ridenour

The chart says it all.

Jan Chapman compares a Friends’ meeting with her usual church experience.

On the NY Times site, Stephen Dubner posted a final exam given to eighth grade students in Salina, Kansas in 1895.

I just finished my paper on the problems with tolerance.

I don’t preach a social gospel; I preach the gospel, period.

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, third through humility.

If you could have only one thing for Christmas In today’s Washington Post, Petula Dvorak’s column includes a story about a 6-year-old who was told by her mother to scale back her Christmas list.

The ethical and moral issues that face people in the U.S. have a great deal to do with how we see the world, whether we see it as interconnected or not, our responsibility for our neighbors nearby and far away, how we’re going to use the resources and the…

I don’t quite know what to say about this video, except that it’s not likely the kind of advertising we need to attract the kind of future philosophy students we want.

EthicsDaily.com has an interesting story about a recent Pew Forum survey on religious knowledge in the United States.

Nietzsche would like this.

Rolling Stone’s ranking of the top ten Beatles songs.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for.

Nowhere is the grace of God more evident than in the fact that some preachers will be saved.

There is, in a word, nothing comfortable about the Bible – until we manage to get so used to it that we make it comfortable for ourselves.

I can’t stand your religious meetings.

Yesterday, my class at the chaplain school participated in a staff ride to Charleston.

From the leader of a Mosque in Columbia, speaking about partnering with other groups to provide social services to people in an area of the city suffering from high poverty and crime rates: We’ve been able to work with the Methodists and the Episcopalians.

The New York Times recently reported on a study published in Psychological Science suggesting that people who engage in substantive, meaningful conversations are happier than those who do not.

“Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute.”

Al Staggs will be in chapel today at OBU presenting his Bonhoeffer monologue.

Here’s a mac geek got a much earlier start than I did.

A great experiment that shows how little we tend to perceive.

’You must be a philosopher.’ ’No, I’m a bum.’

A problem we looked at in Critical Thinking today asked why most car accidents occur close to home.

The collection grows… Tagged: Aesthetics

Interesting post today on the big daddy weave blog about a church that will burn translations other than the King James for Halloween.

From the Washington Post, art on loan to the Obama administration.

Like all great art, it imparts to the audience a profound sense of empathy and belief, as well as a tremendous desire to urinate.

Another package arrived in the mail today, wrapped in tissue paper with my address scrawled in permanent marker.

Yesterday, I received an anonymous package by campus mail that contained this.

I thought this was fitting, since classes start tomorrow: Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation.

The son of philosopher Jonathan Dancy, explaining on The Tonight Show why he did not choose philosophy as a profession: When you realize that you that you can’t have more than a five second conversation with your dad before you’re lost, you find another l…

Online education more effective than classroom?

You’re never too old to have a happy childhood.

Dale Tuggy has a new article in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the Trinity.

Back to the blog after a very long break.

There’s an interesting piece in the New York Times today about student expectations and grade inflation.

Two stories in today’s news caught my attention.

One of the assignments in Critical Thinking was to figure the probability of winning the prize in the traditional three-door Monty Hall problem.

The year that I was born, 1963, was marked by these significant events: In April, Martin Luther King was arrested and jailed in Birmingham.

Go vote!

In Ethics, Friday, I sketched out an argument against moral relativism that appeals to the standard argument for moral relativism.

It’s interesting that the prominent atheist Richard Dawkins is now claiming that reading J.K.

In Philosophy of Mind today, I claimed that the ability to respond to the environment meant that an organism was at least minimally conscious.

The temperature in Norman just before 5 PM is 106.

The summit on soaring food prices ended last week.

The Washington Post reports something today that is unfortunate but unsurprising.

We had a wonderful week in Costa Rica.

We are leaving tomorrow for a week in Costa Rica.