My first two blogs for Evangel – “Hosting the Holy One” and “Sartorial Eye for the Clerical Guy” – generated a lot of controversy because I dared to question our beauty-making as Christians. In March, Baker Books will release a new book that should deepen our . . . . Continue Reading »
Politicized science has corrupted the field and undermined the public’s confidence. To counter this trend, notable stem cell scientists have signed an “open letter” calling for greater integrity in the peer review process. From the letter:Stem cell biology is highly topical . . . . Continue Reading »
The argument over embryonic stem cell research—and it’s first cousin and real agenda, human cloning research—has always been an ethics debate, not a science debate. But that doesn’t mean that scientific efforts to find ethical “alternatives’ to ESCR should not be . . . . Continue Reading »
In light of a number of recent posts dealing with a range of topics on the nature of Christianity, I came across an observation that I think offers a bracing challenge to much that is American Protestantism today.“Stanley Hauerwas has said that modern Protestantism has been the only form of . . . . Continue Reading »
Exactly!Ha! (Yes, yes, Science Literalists, I know that feelings don’t really come from the . . . . Continue Reading »
Barack Obama has been president for just over twelve months and in his recent state of the union address he set out his priorities for his second year in office. It is no surprise that many observers are now questioning Obama’s overall effectiveness in the presidency as unemployment remains . . . . Continue Reading »
Every so often someone in the popular press will make the apparently earth-shattering discovery that evangelical Christians can actually think and are not, after all, “poor, uneducated and easy to command,” as journalist Michael Weisskopf notoriously put it nearly two decades ago. The . . . . Continue Reading »
On Monday February 15, Colonel Jeffrey Williams will be featured on CBS Evening News as part of the Everyone in the World Has a Story series from journalist Steve Hartman. Over the past months as part of the series, Williams and other astronauts at the International Space Station have spun an . . . . Continue Reading »
Thank you, lady, for reminding me what it was like To fall in love with Karen Fifty years ago. It was her eyes that did me in, Blue as the sapphire stones She bought along the Indian Ocean. Blue, with sadness deep behind them, And merriment like candle’s flames on golden foil. Eyes incapable of . . . . Continue Reading »
Jewish Theological Seminary Downsizes Its Cantorial Schoolby David P. GoldmanThe Tablet (www.tabletmag.com) reported yesterday:As part of a major restructuring effort, the Jewish Theological Seminary announced last week that its cantorial school, traditionally separate from the rabbinical school, . . . . Continue Reading »
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