The quote comes from my 2011 post “Liberal Christianity – An Affirmation.” Read more
The quote comes from my 2011 post “Liberal Christianity – An Affirmation.” Read more
Intelligent Design proponents and young-earth creationists tell lies. That isn’t new information. One of the lies they tell is that genetic mutations do not produce new information. This video addresses this lie of theirs. Read more
Some years ago I blogged about Robin Meyers’ book, Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus. Recently Progressive Christianity shared an excerpt from his new book, Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance. Below is a sample, from the larger section from which the quote above comes. Click through for even more, or better yet, buy the book. The sad truth is that much of the church today is a harmless handmaiden of the... Read more
From Non Sequitur. One can really learn things about religion by comparing sacred texts. But you have to stop viewing your own as a weapon first. Read more
When Andy Snyder set about making this video explaining the Euthyphro dilemma, I’m pretty sure he didn’t expect an ancient Egyptian deity to appear from above to settle the matter. But that is precisely what happens in this short video. HT Madeleine Flannagan. Read more
Dudley Chapman has written a really helpful blog post, addressing a popular misunderstanding about peer review – and thus also the way some have misunderstood the significance of retractions and other such things that have been in the news lately. Click through to read it. Of related interest, the New York Times just featured an article about the effect of scholars seeking to make an impact on the public and not just get their work in academic journals. See also this... Read more
I can’t believe that no one thought to make an “Ancient Arians” meme before now. I suspect that someone created this for Trinity Sunday, which just passed. Read more
Next summer, the Enoch Seminar will hold a conference with the title “John the Jew: Reading the Gospel of John’s Christology as a Form of Jewish Messianism.” It will be held in Camaldoli, Italy, and I am delighted to be one of the participants in this event. Here’s a description of the purpose of the meeting from the Enoch Seminar website: Purpose: The purpose of the sixth Nangeroni meeting is to explore the Gospel of John’s christology, traditionally considered to be... Read more
It is one of the major problems with fundamentalism that it recognizes no other form of its religious tradition as authentic than its own narrow version. And so it perceives as an attack on religion what is in fact an attack on narrowness, on unjustified dogmatism, on sloppy thinking, and many other things that deserve to be criticized not out of dislike for religion in general or Christianity in particular, but first and foremost by those who love Christianity and want to see it... Read more
Today’s Non Sequitur. If God is a personal being, then God would have to have a sense of humor, to put up with the things that are said about God and in the name of God. If God was as intolerant as some of God’s purported followers are and make God out to be, then either fundamentalists, or atheists, or both, would be dealt with in a less comical fashion and long before reaching the pearly gates. Read more
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