Posted in providence, theodicy on 30 August 2007 | 2 Comments »
Do we live in a world that gives evidence of the existence of a loving God?
Critics usually point to the problem of evil as evidence that the existence of a good and loving God is highly improbable. I don’t want to minimize the force of this question because I think that a lot of [...]
Posted in hockey on 29 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hockey season is fast approaching so I thought I’d weigh in on the most significant development of the off-season - the new uniforms (yes I know I’m shallow). The Tampa Bay Lightning have done the best of the teams I’ve seen so far. The logo looks a lot cleaner and less wordy and I’m [...]
Posted in atheism, faith, prayer on 27 August 2007 | 5 Comments »
Apparently Mother Teresa had a prolonged crisis of faith and had an ongoing struggle with depression. Some of her private correspondence with her confessor is now being published as part of a book called Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light. At one point she says to her confessor, “[But] as for [...]
Posted in epistemology, theology on 27 August 2007 | No Comments »
More on A Rumor of Angels…
Berger’s goal is to examine the future of theology in the contemporary world. He is acutely aware of the ‘relativizing’ effects of both historical research and sociological analysis. History has shown us some of the more human factors behind our sacred texts and religious traditions while sociology has [...]
Posted in epistemology, theology on 24 August 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ryan has got me into Peter Berger’s A Rumor of Angels, an effort to answer the question of whether belief in the supernatural can be maintained within the modern world (he’s writing in 1969). Berger is working with the theory that modernization and secularization have brought with them an incredulity toward that supernatural that [...]
Posted in theology on 15 August 2007 | 2 Comments »
We live in a culture that has a very high value on freedom. We value freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and a host of other less basic freedoms. We have a well-developed historical narrative (even if many of us don’t know it that well) that tells [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 5 August 2007 | No Comments »
And laugh.
Posted in Uncategorized on 2 August 2007 | 11 Comments »
For most of my life I have been perplexed by the question of what it actually looks like when God does something. Growing up within the Christian church I inherited a vocabulary that was full of assertions that were (in hindsight) strikingly casual in describing things that God ‘did’ or ’said’ as if they [...]
