God, Aliens and Evidence
I note the recent story about UFOs and consider burdens of proof required to convince of their existence and compare with burdens of proof in the debate over theism.
Category: Religion
My Dinner With Ravi: An Atheist meets the “Great Apologist of our Time.”
“I am not a doctor, but I play one in real life.”
And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England’s mountains green?
So Trump acknowledged Jerusalem as the capital of Israel…
Human Rights & God
Is “God” a necessary component to undergird universal human rights? And if so, what kind of God best serves the purpose and how compatible is the biblical God, and/or God of the various orthodox traditions with said purpose?
John Quincy Adams on Special Revelation & Canon
John Quincy Adams, as a Calvinistic Christian, was open to the notion that John Milton, Homer and Virgil were divinely inspired along the same grounds he believed the inspired parts of the biblical canon were. He also endorsed the notion of a “partially inspired” biblical canon.
A Proposal for Bible Study as Part of K-12 Curriculum
This started off as a joke when I proposed it; now I’m serious and think it would make for a good course.
Marilynne Robinson and the Absence of a Religious Left
In her essays, the award-winning novelist examines the significance, past, present, and future, of America’s missing Religious Left.
Transgender Spirit
Transgenderism is not some new crazy phenomenon coming out of the modern demented, decadent, relativistic West mind. Let’s look at how other cultures view this.
Conservatives, Donald Trump, and the Unseen
Conservatism stresses deference to the unseen. Trump rejects that out of hand, and he’s on the verge of the Republican nomination. What happened?
Marcion and Arius: American Political Theology’s Roots
How does Marcion, an early church father, who like Arius was one of the earliest notable heretics, relate to the Christian-Deism that arose in England and America during the Enlightenment period of the American Founding. That’s what I am trying to figure out here.
Trump and Cruz Battle for Evangelical Hearts | Boston Review
…[T]he polls are not so hard to make sense of if we recognize that evangelicals are motivated by more than emulating the virtues of Christ. Many, if not most, are also motivated by fighting...
Edward Feser: Possibly the Worst New Atheist Book Yet – First Things
Biologist Jerry Coyne has managed to write what might be the worst book yet published in the New Atheist genre…
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms & Pythagoras
I’m super-interested in this book, just like Bill Clinton is and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson probably would have been.
