Posted in family on 28 November 2007 | 6 Comments »
I am not usually prone to confident statements regarding direct acts of God but some things simply beg for a providential interpretation. Many of you know that Shelley and I are expecting our third child sometime around Christmas so last night Julie and I were looking at baby names on a couple of websites [...]
Posted in politics, public religion on 27 November 2007 | No Comments »
Recognizing the volatile mixture of religion and politics…
I recently read that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair felt the need to keep his religion quiet while in office because of his fear of being seen as a ‘nutter’ by a largely secular electorate. Leaving aside the question of whether or not Blair’s politics [...]
Posted in Bible, church on 23 November 2007 | No Comments »
Ryan has posted a provocative quote from Kierkegaard regarding the possibility of a reformation that lessened Protestant attachment to the Bible. The question I found interesting was whether or not there is any connection between the kind of authority against with Luther and others rightly rebelled and the kind of authority that the [...]
Posted in pluralism, theology on 20 November 2007 | 9 Comments »
To the three or four readers who are still frequenting this blog, my apologies for the unusually lengthy silence. There’s a very simple explanation: I haven’t had anything interesting to say. I don’t really have an explanation for this other than being afflicted with a mental rut that seems to have occurred [...]
