James Hannam, a expert in the History of Science, points out that the controversy over this year’s Templeton prize presumes that there’s a fundamental distinction between scientific and religious thought. According to Hannam that distinction doesn’t exist.
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.
Bosco Peters writes on his blog Liturgy about the proposal to institute lay presidency of the eucharist in the Diocese of Sydney of the Anglican Church in Australia.
“From assault to genocide, from assassination to massacre, violence usually emerges from inside the fold rather than outside it.”
The controversy over a still mostly unread book by a preacher who questions whether or not Hell still exists, or is populated, has continued all
The criticism was so widespread and energetic that on a day that revolutions roiled the Middle East, union members packed the state capitol building in Wisconsin, the number one college basketball team in the country was defeated, and the Best Picture buzz was at its height, Bell was suddenly “trending” on twitter.
More than 140 Catholic theologians from universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland have called for the Church to end priestly celibacy, ordain women and allow lay people to help select bishops, among other changes. They said that they could no longer remain silent in the face of what they say is a lingering crisis within the Catholic Church.
As atheist blogger P.Z. Myers pointed out, “the old school of atheism is really, really boring.” For Myers, the more outrageous the message, the better. That’s the only way it will get noticed.
Mark Ralls writes that Christians surrender the vocabulary of evil at our peril.
It’s the Christian underpinnings of my view of evil, in a world in which we do have free will, and sin, which in all cases involves a choice, that makes it impossible for me to ever see those who suffer from schizophrenia as an embodiment of moral evil. Those who are so afflicted haven’t chosen their delusions and hallucinations; a stand-out even in the pantheon of dreadful diseases, theirs is an illness no one would choose.