Christianity

2 March 2010

Video | The Futures of Progressive Christianities

By Alexander Carpenter
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I am happy to see my friend Peter Laarman holding forth in this informed discussion with David Gushee on the futures of the evangelical and mainline Christian movements.

Christians, Taliban and Moral Ambiguity

Posted February 9th, 2010 by Jonas Uribe
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In 2001, the Taliban in Afghanistan arrested eight foreign aid workers and sixteen of their Afghan assistants on charges of spreading Christianity.

"The Reason for God"

Posted January 25th, 2010 by Zane Yi
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism is a rich work that reflects author Timothy Keller’s erudite teaching style as a pastor; tackling some heady issues, the book is full of references to contemporary historians, sociologists, philosophers, literature, theologians, etc. Yet, like his teaching, the book is surprisingly accessible to a general audience (considering the issues being addressed), rewarding those put in the effort to grapple with it.

Who Holds Tomorrow? "The Future of Faith" and of Adventism

Posted November 11th, 2009 by Samuel Sukaton
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Harvard theologian Harvey Cox’s The Future of Faith will be shocking to most lay observers of religion, Christians and non-Christians alike.

22 May 2009

In Love. With Church.

By Doug Wilson
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I realized the Christ I’ve given my life to follow didn’t live the way I do. I tend to follow rules and my church’s tradition. Jesus lived out of his heart and radically expanded his community through Love. Hated races? He placed them inside his circle of Love. Tax collectors? In. Rich? Welcomed. Prostitutes? In. Poor? Absolutely in.

14 April 2009

New Yorker on Banking Corruption: Suck it Up and Stop Whining

By Rev. Peter Laarman
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I was waiting last Thursday for somebody in the corporate media to point out the sweet irony in two simultaneous announcements: 1. The stated commitment of the G-20 countries to a regime of greater regulation of private financial colossi, and 2. The news out of Washington that same day that our own Financial Accounting Standards Board will now deregulate by abandoning the “mark to market” rule that currently requires our big banks to be honest about their bad assets.

1 December 2008

Indigenous Theologians Discuss Christianity

By Alexander Carpenter
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From Sojourners' Magazine, here's Rev Richard Twiss, Terry Leblanc and Raymond Aldred, Ph.D. talking about the revival of indigenous theology in North America.

Their discussion of Christianity (informed by Ricoeur and Gadamer) from their Native American perspective raises some significant questions about how we approach the early chapters in Genesis, the environment and acts of charity. These theologians reveal how context and all our particularities of identity can create deeper meaning for Christians.

3 November 2008

The Varieties of Biblical Interpretation

By Eric Scott
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This is another for-class assignment I thought worthy of a blog post. Our assignment was to give our personal reactions to and analysis of three different proposed approaches to biblical interpretation.

J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays, Grasping God’s Word (2005), 178.

A Review of Miller’s “Finding Darwin’s God”

Posted October 29th, 2008 by Beth
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Six years ago, my son did what many 4-year-olds do. He got very interested in dinosaurs. This curiosity led to books, questions, and for me, an excuse to finally pursue some questions I had wondered myself. I was fortunate indeed that one of the books I chose in pursuing my interest was Finding Darwin’s God.

Frank Conversations: A Review of “The Faith Club”

Posted October 14th, 2008 by Trudy Morgan-Cole
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The Faith Club, by Ranya Idilby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner, is a book I’d heard about for awhile and was anxious to read. It’s the story of three women — one Muslim, one Jewish, one Christian — who began meeting together to talk about their three faiths, to explore differences and find common ground.

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