. A recent article by Kevin Sack concerns pre-abortion ultrasounds, and whether they might or might-not affect a woman’s decision. But he wrote another article simultaneously–one about how only cold, cruel extremists insist that clinics provide ultrasounds. Impressive. Sack’s article is composed...

In the recent inaugural episode of Barak Wright’s arts and culture podcast, The Sandbox Monthly, Ken Myers talked about the dearth of genuine speech on the radio. Real conversation is full of starts and stops, hesitations, and the kind of awkwardness not found in the canned speech of radio personalities,...

The most common arguments for abortion rest on fallacious logic. This is not to say that every argument for abortion invokes faulty logic. However, in my experience traveling to many US college campuses and dialoging about abortion, studying abortion ethics at Oxford, and interning at the Yale Bioethics...

Joe has written a book!How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History’s Greatest Communicator by Joe Carter and John Coleman Joe sent me a note about the book in which he said: “Argue Like Jesus, which was written for both Christians and non-believers, uses Jesus as a model...

[Note: This is the 3rd entry in the How Not to Argue series. See also Heuristics and Hyperbole and No True Scientist.] Although an argument free of fallacies is not always good, a good argument is always free of fallacies. While that chiastic assertion may not be completely true (or even fallacy-free)...

On Sunday mornings, Rev. Ann Holmes Redding puts on the white clerical collar of an Episcopal priest and stands for prayers at St. Clement’s of Rome Episcopal Church in Seattle. But after noon on Fridays she dons a black hijab and kneels for prayer with other Muslims in the Al-Islam Center. Redding,...

[Note: This post originally appeared in April 2006. But recent news stories--particularly on abortion, Iraq, immigration, and the presidential campaigns--made me think it was a topic worth revisiting.] “I wish he would explain his explanation,” wrote Lord Byron in response to the obscurantist...

[Note: Two years ago I started a collaborative blog project titled "Jesus the Logician." Although a number of bloggers made invaluable contributions, the idea never caught the imagination of "godbloggers" as I hoped it would. Since I'm working on a writing project that incorporates this theme, I thought...

[Note: This is an open invitation to a challenging but worthy project. Although the post is rather lengthy, it provides necessary background material and information on how to proceed. I hope you'll read through it carefully and decide to join us in this exciting task.] “Few today will have seen...

[Note: This is the main index page for the 'Jesus the Logician' Project consisting of both a scriptural and logical/rhetorical forms indices. To add a post to this page send the link to jpcarter@evangelicaloutpost.com]