The number of blog posts with double meanings involving the title of my latest book seems to be without end. Be that as it may, I noticed that the price of the book has come back down on Amazon.com to the range it was in when they had a pre-order discount. So if that’s what you’ve been waiting for, you need wait no longer! Read more

I am grateful to Jared Calaway that he is going to be reviewing my book, and that he has already posted a first impression of the layout and contents. I nonetheless feel I must object on theological grounds to what the title of his post seems to be suggesting… Read more

Two men read the Bible, each in their own place. The first paid lip service to the whole thing. He praised the Bible, and extolled the importance of believing it all and doing it all. He spoke against homosexuality. He married the woman he raped. He put a great many of the Bible’s details into practice. The other read the Bible, and felt lost. He had lots of questions. Don’t sow a field with two different kinds of seeds? What... Read more

Those who have subscribed to the comments or keep an eye on the recent comments sidebar will know that the discussion started by my post “What Is Good?” It seems that we have two views colliding that stop at key points. One says that goodness simply is doing to others what you would want done to you: that’s goodness, it has its own rationale and its own reward. The other says that goodness simply is what God wills or commands,... Read more

By popular demand (OK, in response to a single person’s request) I’ve added to the sidebar a widget that allows you to subscribe to this blog’s feed via e-mail. I thought I’d mention it, in case there is a second person out there who might find this feature useful. Read more

I was simply going to give a quote of the day from Ken: “When push comes to shove, those of the Chicago Statement approach consistently trump the most obvious meaning of the Bible with evangelical tradition, in my opinion.” But I really think the whole post and his series as a whole is worth a look, for those readers of this blog (you know who you are) who are interested in the subject of Biblical inerrancy. The fuller context of... Read more

I’ve been reading Lost and Philosophy: The Island Has Its Reasons, edited by Sharon M. Kaye (Malden: Blackwell, 2008). It helps ease the pain of no LOST until 2010. The book has four main sections, organized around the letters LOST. Part I is called “L is for Love”, a heading that does not correspond in any obvious sort of way to a unifying thread running through the section (this section is primarily about ethics, which doesn’t fit easily into the... Read more

I’ll leave it up to each reader to decide whether the title refers to “evolution and faith in the blogosphere” or “evolution and faith in the blogosphere“. The latest issue of the Metanexus magazine The Global Spiral has a piece by Nancey Murphy on non-reductive physicalism. It meshes nicely with the recent discussions here about topics like emergence and reductionism. The National Center for Science Education web page has added resources on creationism and law. I’ve been having an interesting... Read more

“Paul…is most interesting when you use him to think with, rather than as an excuse not to do any thinking of your own”. –Sean Winter, “Conference Report: Paul and Contemporary Philosophy“ Read more

In a recent discussion in the comments section of another post, the issue of morality and God came up. The argument was made that, unless there is a God who defines right and wrong, and unless God has made those standards known in his inerrantly-inspired word, then we can have no reason for judging one action as preferable to another. Without God, all is relative. I am a Christian, and might be expected to agree with the aforementioned reasoning. Yet... Read more