Posted in apologetics, faith, theology on 5 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
The title of this post is somewhat misleading but it speaks to the difficulty of making a positive case for the existence of God. I don’t mean to simply categorize all of the mystery inherent within human experience and then apply the name ‘God’ to it but an apologetic interest in the question doesn’t [...]
Posted in epistemology, faith on 31 January 2008 | No Comments »
I just discovered that John Stackhouse has been posting on some of the themes I’ve been musing on over the past few weeks. They are grouped under the heading ‘Do You Have to Choose Between Your Brains and Your Beliefs?” and his latest discussion of the relationship between faith and knowledge is a more [...]
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 education, faith on 27 July 2007 | 5 Comments »
I just came across an interesting study published by a team of University of Texas sociologists called “Losing My Religion: The Social Sources of Religious Decline in Early Adulthood.” One of the questions this study attempted to answer was whether or not post-secondary education was a significant factor that contributes to religious decline in early [...]
Posted in atheism, faith, science on 16 May 2007 | 1 Comment »
After last week’s interview with Dawkins I was interested to see Alister McGrath show up on “The Hour” the other night (view it here). McGrath has written two books in response The God Delusion: Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes and the Meaning of Life and The Dawkins Delusion? Kudos to George for bringing on [...]
Posted in faith on 9 May 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Two mistakes about the concept of faith are common. The first is to think that faith is a peculiarly religious word and has nothing to do with everyday life. The second is to presume that faith has no relationship to knowledge, that the two stand as utterly separate categories of assent.”
“No one exercises [...]
Posted in atheism, faith, science on 5 March 2007 | 6 Comments »
The previous post generated quite a bit more discussion than I had expected, although the question raised remains, in my opinion, quite a significant one. If we grant that the world is all there is and that we are the way we are because of a long line of evolutionary adaptations, then how do [...]
Posted in atheism, faith, science on 27 February 2007 | 62 Comments »
Having spent a bit of time talking about Dawkin’s ‘God Delusion‘ (see here and here), I’ll pass on a review of the book by Alvin Plantinga, a philosopher at the University of Notre Dame. Plantinga is a fairly widely respected Christian philosopher (although I find his Calvinism a bit baffling given his resistance to [...]
Posted in faith, public religion on 8 December 2006 | 2 Comments »
Some British Christians have started an interesting experiment called Theos. It’s being described as a ‘public theology think tank’ and is seeking to address questions involving the role of religion in public life through published reports, media analysis and the sponsoring of public events, study conferences and debates. In their words:
“Society is [...]
Posted in atheism, faith on 5 December 2006 | 3 Comments »
Some of Ryan’s comments from a recent conversation on a debate between Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins has made it to the ‘Letters‘ section of Time Magazine. Aside from a few crude editorial interventions I think this follows the script pretty closely. Ryan may have sent these in but I suspect that [...]
