Posted in Uncategorized on 28 June 2007 | 5 Comments »
Well summer holidays have finally arrived so my already infrequent posting will be even more sporadic. We are heading down to Fresno for a family wedding and then spending time with family in Alberta (and hopefully attending a U20 World Cup game in Edmonton). I’ve decided (with the encouragement of others) to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 22 June 2007 | 4 Comments »
If you want the full story (in all its embarrassing historical context) you can read about it here or you can watch it here. If not, just rest assured that Canada got ripped off.
Posted in creation, theology on 21 June 2007 | 5 Comments »
Well I’ve finished Cornelius Plantinga’s Engaging God’s World and, aside from the fact that it contained the most references to John Calvin of any book I’ve ever read, it was well worth the effort. For those who are looking for a brief and readable account of a Christian worldview this is a good place [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 20 June 2007 | 10 Comments »
So here we go with the new look. I’m wide open to feedback as long as it’s positive (in Michael Scott’s words, “constructive compliments”).
As a way of saying hello I thought I’d quote N.T. Wright’s reminder on the problems of seeing the afterlife alone as the point of salvation:
“If ’salvation’ means simply ‘leaving behind [...]
Posted in atheism, science on 18 June 2007 | 3 Comments »
Richard Lewontin, a Harvard-based evolutionary biologist, Marxist, atheist:
‘We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 15 June 2007 | No Comments »
“Against any materialist reductionism, Christians claim that God has seen fit to make room in the universe for creatures who bear some of the glory of their Maker, and who, even on the rainiest Monday morning of their lives, look something like God. We image God in our personhood, communion, responsibility, dignity, virtue, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 14 June 2007 | 6 Comments »
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse: this. I may be making that move to the Senators bandwagon permanent.
Posted in pluralism on 13 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just come across a print version of Miroslav Volf’s paper, “A Voice of One’s Own: Public Faith in a Pluralistic World“. This is a portion of last October’s Laing Lectures, delivered at Regent College in Vancouver and was the subject of a number of posts here last year. One quote to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 11 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
Watch this and lament. Arnold Schwarzenegger is unforgettable. Watch him as he excitedly anticipates the punchline of his inspiring summary of the Ducks’ cup run. Anaheim as the new Hockeytown… somehow I doubt it.
Posted in atheism on 10 June 2007 | No Comments »
For those who are interested, Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath chatted last week at the Oxford Literary Festival. You can listen here.
On the question of morality, McGrath properly pushes Dawkins to describe the ultimate ground for morality in a world without an ultimate purpose. Dawkins admits that science can’t proscribe moral behaviour [...]
