Hey Man!!! Wanna read the new update on my journal?

Hey Thrash. Where have you been man? I've been facebooking u and u still didnt respond.

Have you been using the Phoenix Gate?

Yeah. He's a Phil. of Religion prof here at Trinity, and he teaches the Intro to Apologetics class, which I took last semester (it was one of those first-year MDiv courses that I never got around to taking...). He has a really odd accent, though. He grew up in Japan, but his family is from the Midwest. He basically talks like a Midwesterner, except that every single vowel and consonant is fully pronounced. Like that last clause would have been:

"Ex-CEPT that e-ver-y sINGle VOW-el and CON-soh-nant is fully proh-nounced."

Anyway, I haven't read the book. I'll have to check it out. One cool thing about him is that since he did his Ph.D. under John Hick (the guru of religious pluralism) and grew up in an extremely secularized country and interacted with tons of Buddhists, he's great at understanding where pluralists and others are coming from - he really understands them. That's something that's sometimes lacking in inter-religious dialogue among Christian apologists, I think.

Hey, Thrash. You responded to this post with a UC, "Yeah, Netland is way better." Which Netland book are you talking about? I ask because Harold Netland is one of my profs, and he's really cool.

happy birthday! =)

Happy birthday!

I didn't but I'll probably wind up getting them at some point. It also had Tactics and BOS in the box as well.

I've lost the discs for Arcanum, too, but I doubt that's going to be released again anytime soon, esp. since Troika no longer exists.

You mean that "cackle" thing he does? Yeah it's pretty weird.

Thanks for your UC. You're very sweet.

My advisor at Simpson (where I was for undergrad) is a Duke Divinity school graduate...he has lots of great stories about Hauerwas...mostly about how much he swears...