War and murder
Verbum Ipsum has been doing a series of posts quoting various Christians criticizing Christian pacifism. They've all given a lot...

A little fraternal correction
I must admit that after I read Telford's new FAQ, my first thought was, "Well, whoever wrote that to him...

Ask her why we're who we are
Judging from the comments on my post yesterday, I had probably better define what I mean by free will. Tom...

Born free, but everywhere in chains
I did not, of course, know that the tsunami was coming when I blogged about the theology of nature (here,...

What comes naturally
I don't know what it means to be blogging like a fish on fire, but I'll take it as a...

From the mysterious Orient
Some comments to this post enlightened me a bit about Eastern Christianity. Christopher wrote: Peter Brown has written excellently on...

Imago Dei
Thanks for all the great comments, everyone. A lot of subjects came up, so let me deal with them one...

Original sin and its discontents
My attempt at starting a conversation about natural theology hasn't had any takers so far, and it occurs to me...

Praise him, ye creatures here below
As promised, I want to comment some more on evolution and Christianity, starting with my comment to Vaughn's post. Some...

Inspiration
We're talking creationism over at Icthus. At some point I'd like to expand on my own comment there, but first...

More hermeneutics
Thanks for the nice comments on my last post, and thanks to Mark for pointing out this piece defending a...

Identity and good works
So, about a week late, I'm finally getting around to blogging my first Beta class. Alpha, which I took a...

Mysterious ways
Jennifer and I have been emailing back and forth about divine providence lately, and now I see she's brought the...

Bowing to nothing
Andi is in Paris, and wrote a remarkable post about empty altars. This part rang extremely true to me: One...

The graces
Toward the end of my mother's visit, we had a conversation which, she said, made my interest in Christianity "make...

Creeds
A few days ago Dash sent me the link to this interesting interview with Christian historian Jaroslav Pelikan. (You need...

Life is elsewhere
Sorry for the lack of posting, folks. Haven't really been in the mood, and today I've got an upset stomach...

Be not afraid
As promised, I ordered John Howard Yoder's The Politics of Jesus from the library, and will start reading (and blogging)...

Think on thy last things
My post about hell from two days ago got a number of interesting responses. Apart from the comments, Tom also...

There has to be an invisible sun
One of the nice things about church is that it reminds me that I'm not the only person with problems....

Fall afresh on me
Sunday was Trinity Sunday, I guess because after Pentecost we've rounded up all three Persons in the narrative. Jennifer remarks...

Revisited
Perverse soul that I am, on Holy Saturday I was tempted to write, "Happy Harrowing!" I've still been getting a...

Batter my heart, three-person'd God!
When I blogged Mark 7 I purposely hadn't looked at GG's posts on it yet. He points out some further...

Upon whose authority
Sorry I kind of blew up in the previous thread. As you might have surmised, I have personal issues connected...

Our precious bodily fluids
So I finally got my computer back, and after getting the right hardware, calling the right people and intoning the...

The fortress of solitude
I'm coming down with a cold, so it might not be the wisest thing to post with a half-melted brain,...

The triple omni
Richard Hall blogged a lecture he heard about the problem of evil, which apparently argued for a redefinition of omnipotence....

Downtime
Sorry I bailed out of the interesting discussion (which seems to be going on nicely without me). Work has been...

Belief, myth, and jack#$%
David is still not happy with the answers he got to his problems with "the faith thing," and I have...

More on the faith thing
Kynn weighs in....

The gift of faith
Tom cogently responds, here and here, to David's objections to "the faith thing" in the comments to this post. I...

Hermeneutics ... was that a jazz band?
Allen Brill responds to my last post on The Gutless Pacifist....

What's old is new again
Allen Brill, a Lutheran minister who runs the blog The Right Christians, recommended I read his post on a James...

The shape of righteousness
In the comments to a recent post Rob threw out a topic for discussion: "Deuteronomy 28: 15-68 The God of...

Caroling softly the souls of slavery
Peter Nixon links to an interesting article about the Catholic Church's position on slavery over the centuries. The writer says...

Scandalous
If you've ever wondered why God would reveal himself in the form of a guy born around 1 A.D. in...

Lookin' to fill that God-shaped hole
Still no word from Telford, but I got an email today that asked an interesting question: I am very curious...