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October 2012

October 31, 2012

Breezy Point Theology

This photo from Queens has been circulating widely, showing the devastation caused by fires which...

October 24, 2012

“Biblical Parenting” and Parental Images of God

David Hayward has a cartoon today that gets at the heart of an issue many...

October 24, 2012

Richard Mourdock and “Gifts from God”

Richard Mourdock, a Republican candidate running to represent Indiana in the Senate, has caused a great deal...

October 23, 2012

Religious Beliefs, Insurance, and “Acts of God”

Yesterday in my class on religion and science, we discussed the notion of "acts of...

October 12, 2012

Big Theological Questions that Science Fiction Should Answer

Over at IO9, Charlie Jane Anders has posted an article with the title "Big Theological...

October 03, 2012

Podcast on The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

I have said on numerous occasions that Mary Doria Russell's two novels, The Sparrow and...

October 03, 2012

Doctor Who: Shada

I recently finished reading Doctor Who: Shada: The Lost Adventure by Douglas Adams which was...

October 01, 2012

Don’t Worship a God that isn’t as Loving as You Are

In my freshmen seminar class "Faith, Doubt, and Reason," we discussed the problem of evil,...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

The God Box

David Hayward drew and shared the above cartoon, and also some wise words on the...

September 10, 2012

The Bible vs. Systematic Theology

If the purpose of the Bible were that we derive from it a systematic theology,...

September 08, 2012

Young-Earth Creationists Don’t Believe That Creation Was Finished in Six Days

I have been having an interesting conversation on Facebook with someone who describes himself as...

September 06, 2012

#progGod is Live!

Tony Jones shared the announcement that Patheos has created a topic page for the round-up...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

A Substantive Post About God

Tony Jones offered a much-needed challenge to progressive theobloggers. We liberals and progressives often spend...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

Remembering Rudolf Bultmann

Two bloggers I read regularly posted about Rudolf Bultmann today, the anniversary of his death...

July 26, 2012

Is Your Theology Weighing You Down?

Two humorous images that appeared on other blogs this morning provide helpful fodder for thinking...

July 20, 2012

Review of Tim Stafford’s Miracles

I am grateful to Patheos for the privilege of being part of its book club...

May 2012

May 18, 2012

Readiness to Revise

There are two great cartoons that appeared on David Hayward's blog recently which can be...

May 10, 2012

God at Gunpoint

David Hayward offers another brilliant cartoon illustrating Biblicism's approach to religion comically but poignantly.

April 2012

April 27, 2012

Studying Religion Will Do This To You

From Savage Chickens via Brad Matthies

April 06, 2012

If There is Gallows Humor, Can There Be Crucifixion Humor?

I came across this cartoon at The Far Left Side: I am (as most readers know)...

April 06, 2012

Matthew Levering’s Jesus and the Demise of Death

I am delighted to have the opportunity to participate in the Patheos Book Club discussion...

April 04, 2012

Quote of the Day (Scot Miller)

I hope I am prejudiced to value human beings over moral or theological principles. When...

April 03, 2012

Doctor Who: Dragonfire

The Doctor Who episode "Dragonfire" is probably the first Sylvester McCoy episode I saw -...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Wisdom and Wonder by Abraham Kuyper

I am grateful to Patheos for giving me the opportunity to participate in the Patheos...

March 15, 2012

Demolishing and Reconstructing the Burial of Jesus (and Christianity Itself)

Sam Alexander has posted a review of my book The Burial of Jesus on his...

March 10, 2012

This Life Matters

Religion that focuses entirely on an afterlife is at best Gnosticism and at worst nonsense....

March 06, 2012

Which is the more likely cause of tornados – God, natural phenomena, or pastors full of hot air?

A lot of people are responding to comments by people such as Pat Robertson and...

February 2012

February 25, 2012

God: What I Really Do

February 23, 2012

Scholars and Apologists

The term "apologist" has become an insult, but it was not always so. If we...

February 22, 2012

A God No One Really Believes Exists?

A while back I posted on why I don't think anyone today really believes that...

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