Kris and I and RJS monitor the comments on this blog, and RJS does only her own posts so I take the responsibility for most of it. Here’s a core value — to use the jargon of our day — of this blog: we want to have civil conversations. I once did a series on conversations on this blog and need not rehearse that all now — it was called The Art of Conversation (so you might see if you... Read more
Again, for those who have no idea what is going on in a post like this, we are doing a series — and it will take a good long while (months and months) — on our common prayerbook, the Book of Psalms. We are reflecting daily, about midday Central Time, on a few lines from a psalm and we do this Monday through Thursday each week. We are in Psalm 31, and you can read the psalm after the jump.... Read more
Joel W. Martin, Chief of the Division of Invertebrate Studies and a curator at the National History Museum of Los Angeles County, published a book earlier this year: The Prism and the Rainbow: A Christian Explains Why Evolution Is Not a Threat. This book joins a series of books written by Christians active in the sciences explaining why they don’t find evolution a threat to their faith. The book is well worth a post looking at both strengths and weaknesses.... Read more
The following post is by Taylor George, a regular reader and commenter on the Jesus Creed blog. This blog sometimes provides posts by readers and commenters. Taylor is touching on a sensitive but all-too-real topic: the impact of divorces on dads. No one at this blog wants to suggest that divorce is anything but tragic and messy, and sometimes the reasons for divorce are not entirely clear or forthright, but there is a concern that the courts do not treat... Read more
OK, let’s hear the best wisdom of nabbing crickets in the basement. What I have to do is coax them from their corners and impossible-to-get-to spots and nab them (and release them or whatever). What are your suggestions for this? (more…) Read more
Today is our first reflection on our common prayerbook, the Book of Psalms, at our new site. For those who have not followed this series, we are providing brief reflections on the Psalms four days a week at roughly the middle of the day. We hope that some will read this as their midday prayers, but we know with the span of the globe some will get this in the evening and others early in the morning. We begin Psalm... Read more
Some of you will observe that the RSS feed is not giving a full text but only an excerpt. Patheos and I are in discussion about this, but for now we are asking you to come to the site to get the full read. Please be patient with this approach and we’ll go one step at a time. We had to walk through this process at Beliefnet, too, and I’m sure over time we’ll find what is best for all... Read more
If you are in the business world, the bottom line tells the story and one way or another the bottom line often tells the whole story. It’s about making money. If you are a professional athlete, success is the bottom line: you either score under par and win or you don’t and you lose; you hit the ball or you don’t; you make the tackle or you don’t. How are college and university professors judged? Perhaps you know this issue... Read more
One of the more important and more difficult pieces of the puzzle as we feel our way forward at the interface of science and faith is the theological implications of discoveries in modern science. A comment on my post Evolution in the Key of D: Deity or Deism noted: …this reminds me of why I get annoyed so much by those who write on theology and evolution. It’s usually just deism and fluff, to be frank. I’ve enjoyed reading through... Read more
Who does well when it comes to passing on the faith to the youth? Studies show two groups do really well: conservative Protestants and Mormons; two groups that don’t do well are mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics. Kenda Dean’s new book is called Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church and in her next chp she examines what makes the Mormons so effective — and she calls the chp “Mormon Envy.” What can we learn from the... Read more
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