Author Archives: Matthew Eppinette

MercatorNet on Bill Clinton’s Embryo Comments

This one has slipped my notice.  Thanks to MercatorNet for catching it. Was Clinton’s language deliberate or grossly uninformed? BTW, MercatorNet.com is definetly something you should be reading.  Thoughtful, well-reasoned, winsome — bookmark it and/or subscribe to their updates immediately.

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Krauthammer on Obama’s Stem Cell Executive Order

Clearly, I don’t agree with everything Krauthammer has to say: I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a … Continue reading

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Science Fiction

Another link from Christianity Today: Sci-Fi’s Brave New World: How the genre draws us to its own views of redemption Which stories will guide us as we make our way through the perilous 21st century with its stunning technologies and … Continue reading

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On Blogging

From Christianity Today: Nearly three years ago, Alan Jacobs wrote in Books & Culture, “Right now, and for the foreseeable future, the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.” I’m probably guilty as charged on that … Continue reading

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Required Reading: D.A. Carson on Being In but Not Of the Digital World

I’ll just say that I find this very convicting. We need to hear competing voices of information from the world around us, use our time in the digital world wisely, and learn to shut that world down when it becomes … Continue reading

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No Room in the Inn

We live in a time of no room, which is the time of the end. The time when everyone is obsessed with lack of time, lack of space, with saving time, conquering space, projecting into time and space the anguish … Continue reading

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The New Media Frontier

The New Media Frontier has been nominated for Outreach Resource of the Year in Evangelism by Outreach magazine.

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Tough Talk on Frozen Embryos

William Saletan writes at Slate.com about the responsibility that goes along with the use of reproductive technologies that create embryos.  From the conclusion: I’m a pro-choice moralist. I don’t want the government telling people what to do with their pregnancies … Continue reading

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Better than Human?

Some of you may know that I’ve written and spoken on the topic of Transhumanism. Salvo magazine has recently made some of their content available online, including the cover article from their first issue, “Better than Human: The Transhumanist Transition … Continue reading

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Seek Service Rather than Power

If we seek service rather than power, we may have significant cultural impact. But if we seek direct power and social control, we will, ironically, be assimilated into the very idolatries of wealth, status, and power we seek to change. … Continue reading

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