The Piety That Lies Between: A Progressive Christian Perspective

"The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love." --Simone Weil

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Divine Sovereignty and the Horror in Haiti

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No theist can seriously confront the horror of a global tragedy like the Haiti earthquake without feeling the weight of the problem of evil:...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Evangelicals and Premarital Sex

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A facebook friend recently posted a New Yorker article, " Red Sex, Blue Sex ," by Margaret Talbot, that offers some interesting ob...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Belief in Search of Evidence

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An occasional commenter on this blog, Dan, recently posted on his own blog, Rationality Now , a reflection inspired by a church sign. The s...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Brit Hume Causes Controversy with Suggestion that Pat Robertson Convert to Christianity

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For those of you who may not have caught it, this following bit of faux news may be of interest. Please note that, while wholly fabricated b...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Kissmiss Wights

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Yesterday we took down our Christmas decorations. For the first time both children eagerly participated in the process. And as I watched my ...
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Friday, January 8, 2010

Lutheran Marriage--Expanding on Comments Made on Another Blog

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For those interested, I left a lengthy comment concerning Martin Luther's views about marriage on polycarp's blog, " The Churc...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

An Imaginary Amazon Review

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Occasionally I visit the Amazon website for my book to see how it’s doing and to read any new reader reviews that have been posted. The othe...
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Divine Mystery and Divine Goodness

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In a comment on my previous post, “Gods of the Imagination,” Speaker for the Dead raised an important issue: if one takes God to be entirely...
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Gods of the Imagination

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In a recent post over on Miss Atomic Bomb , nuclear.kelly offers reflections on the doctrine of hell in which she refers to a passage from H...
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Eric Reitan
Eric, an award-winning scholar and writer, teaches philosophy at Oklahoma State University. His first book, IS GOD A DELUSION? A REPLY TO RELIGION'S CULTURED DESPISERS, was named one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of 2009. His other books include GOD'S FINAL VICTORY (co-authored with John Kronen) and THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE CHRISTIAN LOVE ETHIC, the science fiction novel, SO EDEN SANK TO GRIEF, and, most recently,TROUBLED PARADISE: LIMITED SALVATION AND THE PROBLEM OF HEAVENLY GRIEF.
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