2016-01-11T10:50:43-05:00

Last updated on: January 11, 2016 at 10:50 am   By

The Religion Graduate Organization invites you to submit paper and panel proposals to the semi-annual Religion Graduate Conference, Encountering the Unexpected: Glitches, (Dis)placements, and Marginalia. This conference actively encourages interdisciplinary discussions about unexpected encounters in the field and in the archives. Specifically, this conference aims to explore surprise occurrences in academic work when ideas, texts, people, and places collide or interact in unpredictable ways. Consider moments in the research process which unsettle the positionalities and potentialities of bodies, politics, images, and texts. We... Read more

2016-01-11T06:07:36-05:00

Last updated on: January 11, 2016 at 6:07 am   By

I recently came across some Star Wars lego images about classroom education, and wanted to share them. Click through were more like the above came from. There was also an interesting article in the Chronicle that could be filed under “treating students like clones,” in which students complained about faculty who offer one-size-fits-all lectures to students. Here is what I wrote on Facebook when I shared the article: I appreciate what these students have to say, about the fact it is not... Read more

2016-01-10T06:13:13-05:00

Last updated on: January 10, 2016 at 6:13 am   By

The quote comes from Sheila Kennedy’s blog post, “The Uses and Abuses of Religion.” Click through to read her own simpler formula than her son’s (which includes an expletive). Read more

2016-01-09T22:11:25-05:00

Last updated on: January 9, 2016 at 10:11 pm   By

I shared the above image with the following comment from me: I continue to hear from people who don't think America has a problem. One common suggestion from Christian gun lovers is that this is not a gun problem but a sin problem. That must mean that Americans are worse sinners than other democratic, economically developed nations. And I can believe that – because loving firearms is one of our national sins. Another commenter introduced the word “gundamentalists” and I... Read more

2016-01-09T10:10:41-05:00

Last updated on: January 9, 2016 at 10:10 am   By

Here’s another problematic image I came across on Facebook. It was accompanied by the statement, “Heliocentrism is not necessarily the only perspective, but it is certainly the simpler one. When explanatory power is equivalent, simplicity is a powerful deciding factor.” Can you see what is wrong with the picture? Here’s what I wrote in a comment: “Not with circular orbits on both. That was a major reason why heliocentrism was not persuasive when first proposed. If you do not shift... Read more

2016-01-09T06:02:08-05:00

Last updated on: January 9, 2016 at 6:02 am   By

A friend shared this meme, together with the comment, “Showing that whatever else atheists are, they are not students of history and historical criticism.” The irony is that the claims in the image above themselves circulate and circulate in the manner of the telephone game, among atheists and other self-proclaimed “skeptics” who are nothing of the sort, as they clearly fail to fact-check memes that come their way. Almost everything that is claimed in the image is wrong, or at least uncertain... Read more

2016-01-08T14:00:49-05:00

Last updated on: January 8, 2016 at 2:00 pm   By

My former student Josh Boeke has started a blog, and his first post tells a bit about his own personal faith journey away from fundamentalism. I get a brief mention on it, and on the one hand, it makes me really wish that he and I had had more of a chance to continue the conversation he mentions, but on the other hand, it reinforces to me that sometimes the most important thing we do is not to provide helpful answers... Read more

2016-01-08T10:21:22-05:00

Last updated on: January 8, 2016 at 10:21 am   By

It is a striking coincidence that I just a few days ago watched Blade Runner again, together with my son who was seeing it for the first time. Its future is too close in time to ours to seem plausible now, but other than the dates being off, the possibility of genetically engineering something better than robots to do things that we cannot is not at all implausible. And that word “something” is the heart of the issue the film explores. Just... Read more

2016-01-08T06:10:14-05:00

Last updated on: January 8, 2016 at 6:10 am   By

The quote comes from Ben Corey’s recent blog post “The Real Reason Wheaton College is Terminating Larycia Hawkins: Loving the Common ‘Enemy’.” I thought it deserved to be highlighted and shared. Do you agree that fundamentalism, far from being purely dogma-focused, has this strong sociological aspect to it? Read more

2016-01-07T06:20:35-05:00

Last updated on: January 7, 2016 at 6:20 am   By

There have been quite a few blog posts of interest, related to Christology, which are worth sharing and, where possible, commenting on. Matthew Malcolm listed the “threeness of God” as one of the things the Corinthians got right. I must object. Paul is emphatic about the oneness of God. He cannot then be subtly introducing divine threeness. Mentioning Christ and the Spirit does not mean that he is using those terms the way later Trinitarian theology would. The threeness of... Read more

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