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October 2011

October 11, 2011

How Can We Know? (RJS)

Scot posted a brief excerpt of a column by Karl Giberson last week - Bachmann's...

October 06, 2011

Investigating the Unnatural – Why Believe in God? (RJS)

I began a discussion on Tuesday centered around four online essays. The first, a post...

October 04, 2011

Investigating the Unnatural – Is Science the Religion of the 21st Century? (RJS)

Justin Topp on his blog A biologist's view of science & religion has just recently...

September 2011

September 29, 2011

Finding Calcutta 3: Sin and the Supernatural (RJS)

We are in the middle of short series on Mary Poplin’s thought provoking book Finding...

September 13, 2011

The Search for the Historical Adam 9 (RJS)

I have been posting over the last several weeks on the recent book by C....

September 08, 2011

The Search for the Historical Adam 8 (RJS)

We have been working through the recent book by C. John Collins entitled Did Adam...

September 06, 2011

The Search for the Historical Adam 7 (RJS)

We have been working through the recent book by C. John Collins entitled Did Adam...

September 05, 2011

Seven Days that Divide the World 1

John Lennox, professor in Mathematics at Oxford, in his new and wonderfully written book, Seven...

August 2011

August 30, 2011

Immortality is a Divine Gift (RJS)

Death is natural - immortality is a divine gift. This isn't true because of the...

August 25, 2011

The Beginning of the Gospel (RJS)

I posted a couple of weeks ago on the NPR story about the controversy within...

August 23, 2011

Being Human 9 – Resurrection, Adam, and our Future Hope (RJS)

The final chapter of Joel B. Green’s book Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature...

August 18, 2011

Scientific Progress or A Step Too Far? (RJS)

We've been concentrating on the question of Adam lately, and it is time for something...

August 16, 2011

The Search for the Historical Adam 6 (RJS)

We have been working through the recent book by C. John Collins entitled Did Adam...

August 11, 2011

A Search for Acceptance? (RJS)

NPR had a story on Morning Edition this last Tuesday entitled Evangelicals Question The Existence...

August 09, 2011

The Search for the Historical Adam 5 (RJS)

We have been working through the recent book by C. John Collins entitled Did Adam...

August 04, 2011

The Search for the Historical Adam 4 (RJS)

I began this series a while ago, but had to put it on the back...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

Is it All a Trick of the Mind? (RJS)

Michael Shermer, formerly a Professor specializing in the history of science, skeptic, debunker, author of...

July 19, 2011

Why Would God Use 4.6 Billion Years? (RJS)

There are a number of comments and questions that come up repeatedly in the discussion...

July 14, 2011

How Not to Succeed in … (RJS)

I am in the midst of proposal and paper writing just now (they don't write...

July 12, 2011

Are We Just the Sum of Our Neurons? (RJS)

We've been working through Joel B. Green's book Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature...

July 07, 2011

A Leap of Truth: Evolutionary Creation and Genesis (RJS)

A couple of months ago Scot posted the trailer for a new documentary film coming...

June 2011

June 30, 2011

Science as Critical Thinking? (RJS)

Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate, co-discoverer of C60 better known as buckminsterfullerene or buckyballs, was speaking...

June 28, 2011

Being Human 7 – Conversion and Community (RJS)

The fourth chapter of Joel B. Green’s book Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature...

June 21, 2011

The World’s Oceans – Should We Worry? (RJS)

Scot put up a post last Saturday You Might be an Evangelical Reject if you...

June 16, 2011

The Search for the Historical Adam 3 (RJS)

One of the most significant questions faced by Christians when confronted by the evidence for...

June 14, 2011

Being Human 6 (RJS)

The third chapter of Joel B. Green's book Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature...

June 09, 2011

Conflict or Not? (RJS)

Matt J. Rossano posted a column recently at the Huffington Post: The (Lack Of) Conflict...

June 07, 2011

The Search for the Historical Adam 2 (RJS)

The June 2011 cover story in Christianity Today, The Search for the Historical Adam, is...

June 02, 2011

The Search for the Historical Adam (RJS)

The June 2011 cover story in Christianity Today is a summary of the state of...

May 2011

May 31, 2011

Being Human 5 (RJS)

Chapter 3 of Joel Green's book Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity...