Viewing 544 posts by Matthew Hosier

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    Happy in God, Happy in Life

    In his resoundingly brilliant book, The Happy Christian, David Murray relates a study of KPMG tax auditors and managers. Apparently they were a particularly unhappy... Read more
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    A Philosophy of Wine

    Give me a Hart, I raise you a Scruton. Read more
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    What Is Evangelicalism?

    What is evangelicalism? This is a question we have both skirted around and dived into a number of times at THINK, and it is a significant one. Andrew has previously... Read more
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    The First American Evangelical

    Recently a colleague asked me to recommend some good biographies for him to read. I found this a harder request to respond to than it should have been.
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    Dust to Dust

    It’s funny how theological ideas come along like busses. Having not come across anything about the virtues of Christian burial over cremation for years, over Christmas... Read more
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    Ashes to Ashes

    Philip Larkin famously described life as slow dying. A somewhat morbid thought, but not an inappropriate one at the end of one year and the beginning of another.... Read more
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    Illegitimate Orientation

    Even if, as medical research seems to suggest, paedophilia is a sexual orientation, none of us would want to see paedophilia legitimised. As Simon Bass, CEO of CCPAS,... Read more
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    Fightin’ Talk

    At times it can feel as though we Christians have to do a lot of apologizing because of other Christians. In a culture which is increasingly hostile to the claims of... Read more
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    What if Paedophilia is an Orientation? A Response

    A couple of weeks back I posted about some of the possible implications of James Cantor’s research which suggests paedophilia is a sexual orientation. Following this,... Read more
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    God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades, by Rodney...

    I first posted this review five years ago, before Think was up and running, when I was blogging in a number of different places. With the current events in Syria, and... Read more