Many are familiar with Anne Rice’s spiritual journey from Roman Catholicism and back again. Just today she announced that she has had it with Christianity and has quit. In her own words, from the Huffington Post article, which pasted her FB status updates: On my Facebook account–where all true theological discourse happens–I posted the link [...]
Rachel Evans thinks doubt is a part of faith. In fact she thinks doubt can save your faith–provided you have the faith to doubt and the courage to learn from it what God may be showing you. I agree with Rachel, and I wish I could say it as well as she does in her [...]
My latest gentle and self-effacing article in the Huffington Post is now up. My point is the religion pollsters I mention in this post have some pretty unreflective ideas of what Christians believe. My last post resulted in mass atheist conversions–although I am not sure in which direction.
This week’s BioLogos post is up. It is a bit of a departure from the typical, but I think helps to round out an important biblical theological theme.
This week’s BioLogos post is up. Jesus calming the storm and waking on the water reflect the Old Testament theme of Yahweh taming the waters.
A pastor friend of mine lent me a book by M. Holmes Hartshorne, The Faith to Doubt (Prentice-Hall, 1963). He and I have been talking and thinking a lot about the reality of doubt in the Christian life and the spiritual role that it plays. Hartshorne was Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Colgate with [...]
For a number of complex reasons, the most important of which being “I feel like it,” I am opening up comments on my posts after a two-year self-absorbed imposition of silence. We’ll see how this goes. I will do my best to interact, and don’t take it personally if I don’t. Do take it personally, [...]
Pulitzer Prize (Gilead, 2004) winning author Marilynne Robinson was on The Daily Show recently plugging her new book Absence of Mind. The five-minute segment was about the proper relationship between Science and Religion. Robinson’s view, which she states very gently, is that the two “should not be at odds.” So why are they? Here is [...]
Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has argued recently in a public lecture that it is theologically necessary to say that the earth only appears to be old rather than actually being old. Otherwise, a literal interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis is in jeopardy. He mentioned in his presentation the BioLogos [...]
I had an article posted today in the Huffington Post in their Religion and Science section. I make the point that conservative Christians and New Atheists share fundamentalist assumptions about the Bible that block their participation in the science/faith discussion. I will now sit back and wait for book and movie deals to come pouring [...]
