Faith, Doubt, Scholarship: Why Evangelicals Should Love Paul Tillich
Having Doubt About Doubt With a Healthy Does of Self-Criticism Maybe it was no coincidence that Michael Patton posted on Roman Catholic scholars being incapable of critical scholarship the same weekend...
View ArticleKevin on Aristotle, Descartes, and Catholic Scholarship
“Though I struggle with some doctrinal issues, I seek to handle them in accord with the document I cited in my previous post. I’m only saying that Catholic theology is sacramental. A Catholic can be a...
View ArticleSpilling Coffee: Thoughts on Christianity and Feminism
A Response to Roger Olson‘s Some Thoughts About Christian Feminism A few years ago, I had the opportunity to meet several theologians, including Rosemary Ruether, at a small gathering of liberation...
View ArticleTo @UnitedSeminary : John Wesley Would Oppose Kenneth Copeland’s Prosperity...
I am speaking out of my capacity as someone with Methodist and Wesleyan friends, as well as someone who agrees for the most part with Wesleyan theology. John Wesley would not approve of the prosperity...
View ArticleBrief Comment on Entitlements
‘Libertarianism’ (Photo credit: Toban Black) I am still working out what I think about publically funded healthcare, etc., but I just wanted to restate the reason why I left Libertarianism all those...
View ArticleNonviolent Politics Par Excellence: Bonhoeffer, Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, &...
No, I’m Not Talking About The Seamless Garb Jesus’ Fake Wife Sewed Up For Him In Christian and political circles, there seems to be some confusion about what the Consistent Life philosophy, the...
View ArticleIntelligent People Blogging Intelligently This Week
Here are some posts that made me think this week, take and read!: Martin Luther King Jr. On Human Solidarity and an Inescapable Network of Mutuality and the Dangers of Uninterrogated Whiteness by...
View Article#Lent: some possible ideas
As a Baptist, I’m not really required to follow the Liturgical Calendar. But I can use my own freedom to recognize it. In the past I have given up meat for Lent, kyriarchy. This year, I’m leaning...
View ArticleLiberation Theology’s Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Liberation Theology Bible Study (Photo credit: Student Christian Movement) Some of the theology texts I have read over the years, and articles and even (faux) news reports suggest that liberation...
View ArticleBook Review: The Quest For The Creed by @dlongenecker1
Icon depicting the First Council of Nicaea. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A few months ago, I received a review copy of Father Dwight Longenecker’s The Quest for The Creed: What The Apostles Really...
View ArticleOn Canonization and Colonization: Junipero Serra
The canonization of Junipero Serra, who used the militaristic fort-mission system to become the Evangelizer of the West, is puzzling, paradoxical, leaving me to wonder, is it pardonable? I mean why...
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