Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc.
Posted in Culture, Ethics (Philosophy), Scripture (Religion) on Jun 16th, 2008
Yesterday’s sermon was on the Kingdom of God/Heaven. Which was almost guaranteed to be interesting, since I get the feeling that our church members are primarily progressive and pacifist. (The non-pacifist, non-progressive part of me grins. Wait, that would be all of me. Or almost all?)
But after expressing his (I think legitimate) concerns over the [...]
Posted in Scripture (Religion) on Jun 13th, 2008
Once upon a time, someone wrote an article called, “Jesus Wasn’t Crazy: How to Bless Those Who Curse.” In it he wrote:
When you read John (e.g., 1.50-51, 6.48-58) you start to think maybe Jesus is crazy.
Well, today he was reading Matthew. Not all of Matthew. Just some of it. Part of what he read [...]
Posted in Life, Philosophy, Religion, Scripture (Religion) on Jun 3rd, 2008
Darren at Precipice Magazine was kind enough to ask if they could reprint my article, “Jesus Isn’t Crazy: How to Bless Those Who Curse.” So I sent him the original version (Catapult’s editors had made some changes to the version they posted).
You can read it here.
Posted in Scripture (Religion) on May 30th, 2008
The final installment, complete with the strange typo “Moman” (instead of “Woman”; how did I not catch that?), has been posted.
Posted in Religion, Scripture (Religion) on May 25th, 2008
Here’s article 3 in my four-part series on St. Paul, Corinthians, and male chauvinism (Sight Magazine).
[Article 1 | Article 2]
Also, see my posts below on the Drudge Report, and volume 5 of the WEeding Awards.
Posted in Ethics (Philosophy), Scripture (Religion) on May 18th, 2008
I’ve got two new articles up at Sight Magazine. You can read them here.
They are the first two in a four-part series on 1 Corinthians 11:1-16 (one of the passages where Paul seems especially anti-woman).
This series is a follow-up to my article on what Genesis 2 has to say about women.
Posted in Culture, Ethics (Philosophy), Religion, Scripture (Religion) on Apr 20th, 2008
A conversation between Mr. Stevens and myself in the comment section following my post announcing my new article that is worth reading. At least I think so.
In it we’ve also been dealing with some of the Pauline issues which come up when discussing misogyny and Scripture (as I mention in my article as well).
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, Science, Scripture (Religion) on Oct 29th, 2007
Which just means I will have said my peace (piece?) after this post on the subject. All we have left to talk about is Creationism’s third issue-group, “How to understand what Philosophy says.”
(The first was discussed here and here, and the second was discussed here).
Philosophical Issue (1): If the ex nihilo, nihil fit principle [...]
Posted in Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Scripture (Religion) on Oct 26th, 2007
As I mentioned before, I’ve written a book (*Stewie’s making fun of Brian’s novel-writing begins to play in background*) on reading the first three chapters of Genesis. In my second post on Creationism, I said I would talk about the right way to read the Bible’s account of Creation.
Here’s the approach I work with in [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, Science, Scripture (Religion) on Oct 25th, 2007
Continuing from before . . .
Just as there are three approaches to Creationism (of which I am aware), there are three groups of issues related to Creationism:
(1) How to understand what Scripture says
(2) How to understand what Science says
(3) How to understand what Philosophy says
In other words, we have to deal with claims of [...]
WEeding Awards
