Christians aren’t the only world-faith that has had its world-view challenged by the mechanism of Natural Selection (Evolution). While Islam has not dealt with the challenge to the extent that Christians in the West have, there are the beginnings of debate within Islam as how to accommodate of view of Creation that ranges somewhere between strict Creationism and Evolution.
Starting by drawing a distinction between “crackers” (who break into things) and “hackers” (who try to create new unexpected things) a Jesuit priest writing in
Is the biblical narrative true in the same way that a mathematical theorem is true? Is it true in the same a natural law is true? What about a historical account of an event? What about an eyewitness account? David Lose says that’s the wrong sort of question to ask.
When Barbara Brown Taylor was recently asked to preach on “Word and Music” for a special service, she began to search out what Jesus had to say about music in the Gospels. She found very little, and what little was there was not very complimentary. But then she looked up the use of the word “hymn” in the Gospels.
A wedding spoof meets an unhappy Rector…the power of prayer…hoping lightning doesn’t strike twice…and the best seder in the USA.
Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand—from the outset they must give up, as inappropriate to the topic, the very two questions that led them to deal with the ethical problem: “How can I be good?” and “How can I do something good?”