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Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
The recent brouhaha over Rob Bell’s new book, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived , reminds me of why...
Reading Obama
Since the so-called “hermeneutic turn,” initiated and sustained by that Teutonic proclivity for ratiocination, we’re told that everything”on the page and off the page”is a text, and therefore it’s...
Notable Books of 2010
’Tis the season when major transatlantic publications, such as the New York Times , Washington Post , Atlantic, Economist , Guardian , and Times Literary Supplement , feature their...
Why Is The Future of Reasoned Christian Disagreement Endangered?
Why is the future of reasoned Christian disagreement endangered? Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has a penetrating answer in “Knowing Myself in Christ,” an essay that belongs to The...
The Creation Story is Liturgy: A Solution to Science and Religion Debate?
Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann has assisted my understanding of genre and authorial intent in the so-called “first creation story” (Genesis 1:1-2:4a). I will distill his treatment from An...
A Pastoral Answer to the Difficulty of Evolution and Biblical Authority
Timothy Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and author of The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, has written a paper for...
Multiple constituencies in the science and religion debate
There is a peculiar American tendency to bifurcate public debates into two sides, one “pro-” and the other “anti-” (e.g., abortion, climate change, homosexuality). The science and religion debate...
A Conservative Legal Giant Moves Sex-Sex Marriage Forward
Did you watch Ted Olson’s interview on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace? Consider the irony: Olson is a conservative legal giant who argued the winning side of the...
Resources on Science and Religion
Based on the comments I received from my blog posts on the science and religion debate, I want to point Evangel readers in the direction of some resources that...
After the Proposition 8 Decision: Antonin Scalia’s Prophetic Words
Since U. S. District Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California’s 2008 constitutional ban on same-sex marriages, my ears are hearing the prophetic words of U. S. Supreme Court Judge Antonin...
Why the Religion and Science Debate Continues?
There are times when it’s necessary to look through a telescope for the big picture and other times when it’s necessary to look through a microscope for the small...
What would Augustine say about creationists and ID proponents?
Based on the quotations below, Augustine would say creationists and ID proponents are “reckless and incompetent expounders of Scripture” because they turn the Bible into primitive science. From Peter...
The Future of the Science and Religion Debate
The Patheos symposium on the future of evangelicalism introduced another set of essays on August 4th under the rubric of “Transforming Culture.” Karl Giberson, a physicist, scholar on science...
Reformed Christianity: The Gadfly on the Sluggish Horse of Evangelicalism
Joe Carter has informed Evangel readers about the Patheos symposium on the future of evangelicalism. Since I was not invited to contribute––no hurt feelings––I will offer the perspective of...
Cornel West Reconsiders Obama …Thank God!
Cornel West reconsiders Obama on NPR . . . thank God! Read the transcript or listen to the interview here.
