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, November 6, 2014

Divine Revelation and Cultural Filters: The Human Journey to God

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In the discussion section of my post on Abraham and Isaac , an interesting question came up: Would a God anything like the one envisioned in...
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Monday, October 27, 2014

Despair, the Hard Work of Theology, and Abraham's Test

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I have a son. The other day my wife and I went to his first parent-teacher conference as a middle-schooler. We were told what an awesome kid...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Political Liberalism and California's Affirmative Consent Law

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I recently read an LA Times piece by Jonah Goldberg  about California's "affirmative consent law," a strategy for attempting ...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Marriage Equality Denialism: The Case of Matt Walsh

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You've probably heard of global warming denialism and evolution denialism. And of course there's Jesus mythicism, which denies the e...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Same-Sex Marriage in Oklahoma (!!!)...and Gov. Mary Fallin's Response

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Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court refused to take up an appeal of a lower-court ruling that declared Oklahoma's same-sex m...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

The Cause-Cure Fallacy

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In a recent e-mail exchange with my best friend, I had occasion to talk about what I call the "cause-cure fallacy." I think I'...
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Monday, September 8, 2014

What Victoria Osteen Got Right

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Victoria Osteen, wife of mega-church prosperity-gospel preacher Joel Osteen, got some attention recently for a poorly-worded bit of theology...
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Friday, August 29, 2014

Some Thoughts on Ferguson

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I've been wondering for awhile what I can add to the public discussion that has been generated by the recent events in Ferguson, MO: the...
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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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