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I’m delighted to be part of the Patheos Book Club about something that isn’t a book – the Animate: Practices DVD from SparkHouse. The DVD is part of the Animate series, and this particular DVD focuses on a range of aspects of Christian life, including relatively obvious and specifically Christian ones like worship and sacraments, but also ones that are prone to be neglected or might even seems surprising, such as meals and money. Some of the speakers, like Brian McLaren,... Read more
St. John’s College in Durham shared links to the ASA Lectures by David Wilkinson, the college principal. That includes lecture 1 in mp3 format with accompanying pdf, and lecture 2 with accompanying pdf. Of related interest, the Templeton Foundation drew attention to the James Gregory Public Lectures on Science and Christianity. And God of Evolution shared a Christian hymn that embraces our scientific knowledge: “In Chaos and Nothingness” by David Lee. Read more
It turns out that I was wrong and Kirk Cameron was right. Evolution should be able to produce a crocoduck. And it did. Hemant Mehta pointed out on his blog that a paleontologist Paul Sereno described the recently-rediscovered Spinosaurus aegyptiacus as “a chimera — half duck, half crocodile.” See Science magazine for more details. And so I will admit it. I was wrong about the crocoduck – just as Kirk Cameron was wrong about evolution. Read more
The quote comes from the post “The Agnosticism of Faith” on the Speculative Faith blog. The background image is a photo taken in Yosemite National Park by Quan-Tuan Luong. Read more
There is a call for papers for a conference to be held at the University of Durham in 2015. The title is “Muted Voices,” and it is focused on non-Pauline and non-Johannine epistles from the early Christian centuries. Of related interest, Larry Hurtado pointed out that the journal New Testament Studies has made a number of articles available for free on their website. Read more
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This lovely example of 20th century romanticism by Croatian composer Natko Devčić first came to my attention a few days ago. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Read more
I love teaching the first year seminar class “Faith, Doubt, and Reason.” Reading Clifford and Tillich, the Bible and Hume, all in one semester makes for great conversations. In Monday’s class we talked about the meaning of faith. Clifford famously discussed the moral implications of accepting claims on insufficient evidence. When Tillich was brought into the picture, it helped highlight something: what passes for “faith” in our time is often an unwavering insistence that one is right, or in other words,... Read more
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