“The ‘non-eschatological Jesus’ seems to have more Californian than Galilean local colouring” (Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz, The Historical Jesus (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998) p.11)

Yesterday in my Religion and Science class we talked about what is meant by the ‘soul‘ and how it relates to other terminology such as ‘mind’ and ‘brain’. One of the students, Andrew Gillen, had some thoughts that were so interesting I just have to write them down and also share them. (That’s the great [...]

The Templeton Foundation has asked a number of scientists this question: “Does The Universe Have A Purpose?” The varied answers they received vary are shared on their web site. (Thanks to millinerd for sharing this on his own blog).

In response to a post about Scripture and canon on the Emerging from Babel blog, I suggested we might approach a text like Ecclesiastes in the following way: I suppose one way to approach it is to recognize that Ecclesiastes is both somewhat marginal in the canon, but nonetheless necessary. Faith without any element of [...]

A mystic is someone who knows what he or she isn’t talking about.

“Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth” (Albert Einstein). These words were apparently spoken by Einstein about Gandhi. Can anyone help me find the source of the quotation? Last night we showed the famous Gandhi movie for students taking the South [...]

In the beginning, God spokebut there were no ears to hearnor was there an atmosphere to carry the sound.God said, “let there be light”but there was no eye to behold its brightnessor to discern and distinguish its rainbow colors. Billions of years passed,and now there were people who could see, hear and create,and so they [...]