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

Thursday, August 2, 2012

That Chick-fil-A Business

I stayed clear of Chick-fil-A yesterday. And so far, at least on this blog, I've stayed clear of the topic--not because I don't ha...

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Progressive Religion vs. Fundamentalism: Part 1

In my recent post on the importance of progressive religion , I intimated that not all religion is the same; but I made no effort to explici...

Friday, July 27, 2012

Guest Post: Through the Eyes of an Ironman

My wife--a special ed teacher by day--has written an account of her experience competing in her first full Ironman (140.2 mile) triathlon th...

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Complementarianism without Hierarchy?

I got quite a bit of feedback--both on this blog and through other venues--from my responses to Jared Wilson's now infamous (and, appa...

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Progressive Religion: Indispensible for Social Progress

Over at AlterNet , Sara Robinson has written a compelling and eloquent essay on why the American progressive movement cannot hope to succe...

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Ironman Wife

The next time I will have a chance to check in on my blog will be next week. By that time my wife will have competed in her first Iron-dista...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

"Benign" Christian Patriarchy and 50 Shades of Grey: A Response to Jared Wilson

A few days ago at The Gospel Coalition's blog, Jared Wilson offered a critique of the bestselling erotic novel, 50 Shades of Grey --in ...

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Giving the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") a Human Face

My friend Tracy (a wonderful actress and church secretary) has an infectious laugh, a somewhat racy sense of humor, and a daughter with juve...

Thursday, July 12, 2012

On the Minnesota Anti-Equality Amendment: 5 Wrong-Headed Arguments

In recent years, there have been numerous attempts to prevent same-sex couples from having equal access to civil (legal) marriage. One popul...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

One Philosopher's Manifesto

There is a difference between knowing an array of empirical facts and having wisdom (by which I roughly mean a sense, often hard to articula...

View web version

About Me

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.

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.