Critical Thinking: Critical Reading Strategies

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Meg Gagne says:

20 Nov 2009 at 15:00

Gregg~ I just got off the phone with Hallee and I mentioned to her just how much these posts mean to me. It struck me as silly, I would tell her, to tell you, just how important these posts are. As someone raised Agnostic, I didn’t discover the Lord until I was adult. While the transition to Christianity has been a wonderful blessing, it is also hard to “teach an old dog new tricks”. I was explaining to Hallee, what I love about these posts is your ability to marry Christian faith with intellectualism. I struggle with the “because it’s so” responses from Priests, Pastors, and others in the respected upper echelons of *authority* when I raise questions. That is hard for me, personally, to just “accept”. Your intellectual and extremely articulate responses to inner struggles, your breakdown of verse and Scripture, and your quest for Biblical truth, is just, well, AWESOME! I am inspired each and every time you’re here to pick up the best, and most important, book ever written. Please keep these coming (more frequently perhaps?,) because I have such a keen and earnest interest in your perspective. Thanks so much, Meg.

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- Gregg says:
  
  20 Nov 2009 at 16:13
  
  Meg,
  
  Thanks so much for the kind words. I pray that Hallee talked you into writing another guest post for us. :-) As you probably guessed, we approach this blog as we approach many of the services we perform in life. That is, we approach it as a ministry.
  
  Hallee works very hard to post the healthy and biblically inspired recipes as well as all of her other posts dealing with all things biblical womanhood. I feel that her 5 conversations series is absolutely critical and will have a lasting impact on lives for years to come. The Virtues series is simply phenomenal and very convicting. She has a friend who admits to not having read them all for fear of the conviction they will bring to her heart!
  
  Hallee and I work together on the Critical Thinking posts, of which there are MANY more to come. Fallacies alone will take dozens of posts! But I offered to publish the Science (e.g: Creation) v Darwinism (e.g: non-Science) posts on Sundays to give Hallee a day of rest and to offer our readers the very meat that I myself sought for so many, many years when I, too, was offered only milk.
  
  I am so glad that I can lift you up and feed you as well. I could recommend so very many books having devoted so many hours of study to these topics in the past several years.
  
  Honestly, I am not overly surprised that the opposition has remained conspicuously quiet with respect to my posts. Darwinists are bullies by nature. When you stand up to bullies, they usually run as if from Godzilla. For them, I imagine it is fairly radical to encounter a Christian who can think critically and who has his scientific facts straight.
  
  You have probably already surmised that I am employing an intentional methodology. I am gladdened to hear that it is appreciated.
  
  And please, comment all you want. After all, you might win something. :-)
  
  I pray God richly blesses your life. In Christ — Gregg
  
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