The Café’s video blog features a brief interview with Catholic priest James Alison this week. The conversation it has engendered is worth a look, particularly Donald Shell’s comments on Alison’s book about the Atonement, Raising Abel.
Is an acceptance of neo-Darwinian evolution possible for a Christian? Catholic theologian Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., offer three different Christian approaches to reconciling scientific evidenc eof evolution with faith in a creating God.
A groundbreaking international conference, aimed at exploring the link between cruelty to animals and person-to-person violence, will attract leading academics to Oxford University’s Keble College on 18 September. The conference, the Relationship between Animal Abuse and Human Violence, will analyse this link and its potentially far-reaching implications for social and legal policy around the world.
Jane Goodall found evidence that apes have a religious life. A young theologian at the Martin Marty Center in Chicago explores the implications for our own faith life.
bls at The Topmost Apple blog has a timely reminder that not all, or even most, progressive Anglicans derive their theology from the writings of the Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong, retired Bishop of Newark. The former Bishop of Monmouth, for example, had this to say about one of Spong’s theses…