This is a recording of a song I wrote, giving musical expression to the view of faith advocated by theologian Paul Tillich. Let me know what you think!
Intelligence on Ice vs. Ignorance on Fire
February 25, 2013 By 15 Comments
The saying “Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?” is attributed in Diana Butler Bass’ book Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening to an unnamed Facebook poster. I think that this [...]
Liberal Christianity around the Blogosphere
February 25, 2013 By 7 Comments
Bo Sanders discussed a bit of revisionist history offered in a tweet by Rick Warren, who outlandishly claimed (among other things): Liberal theology has never created any university. It just sucks the life our of those that were started by Bible believers. Fortunately he received a lot of responses challenging his either bizarrely ill-informed or [...]
Go, Redistribute Your Wealth to the Poor, and Follow Me
February 23, 2013 By 12 Comments
From the web cartoon series Shortpacked.
More about Student Blogging
February 21, 2013 By 9 Comments
Brian LePort has continued to focus his blogging attention on the topic of student blogging. In one post, he sought to gather names/blogs of doctoral students who blog – or blogged when they were students, for those who’ve since graduated. In another, he asked about the possibility of blogging later interfering with attempts to find [...]
Djesus Uncrossed vs. Christ Crucified #progGOD
February 18, 2013 By 3 Comments
I was gearing up to write a post about the slaughter of the Canaanites, a topic that came up in my class today. And then I finally got around to watching this Saturday Night Live video, “Djesus Uncrossed,” which several blogs I read had already shared: I could not help but connect the two, since [...]
More Discussion by and about Christian Liberals and Progressives
February 13, 2013 By 2 Comments
Several blogs have focused in on the subject of liberal and/or progressive Christianity since I posted on the topic a couple of days ago. Bo Sanders argues that Liberal and Progressive are terms that need to be distinguished, with the latter being more postmodern, among other things. Tony Jones asked whether he fits into Roger [...]
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