Last Tuesday Nightline ran a special episode entitled, “Does God have a future?” It was a debate between New Atheists Sam Harris and Michael Shermer and New Agers Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston. The first group argued that science has disproved God while Chopra insisted that there was some life force that unites us all. [...]
Archive for March, 2010
no dog in this fight
Posted in Theology on March 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
there goes my retirement
Posted in miscellaneous on March 26, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Last year I retrieved my 3,000 baseball cards from my parents’ house. I started collecting in 1973, when my brother and I would spend our 30 cent allowance on a pack of 12 Topps cards and a stiff, bland, powdered pink stick of gum. We coveted the Indians’ players the most because we were living [...]
words matter
Posted in Theology on March 25, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I’m in the middle of grading confessions, and my friend Chris Brauns just blogged on the grade that my mentor and predecessor, Joe Crawford, gave his first confession. Chris reminds us that precision is everything in theology (and anything else that matters), that we really don’t know what we believe until we can write it [...]
eighties rush
Posted in miscellaneous, Uncategorized on March 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday I was honored to speak in Cornerstone’s chapel, which is a first-rate program run by Matt Westerholm. If you’ve read this site before you know that Matt is very funny and kind of won a Grammy this year, so it won’t surprise you that he introduced me by explaining the plot of “Don’t Stop [...]
respect
Posted in Theology on March 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Here is my latest entry for Our Daily Journey. As always, any recommendations would be appreciated. I have a concern in the last paragraph, but I can’t find an easy way to fix it. So if something bothers you there, give me an idea on how to improve it! read > 1 Chronicles 11:10-19 So [...]
meaty Michigan
Posted in Ethics, Politics, Theology on March 19, 2010 | 24 Comments »
This is small potatoes in the big scheme of things, but as a window into how messed up life is in Michigan, our governor proclaimed tomorrow “Michigan Meatout Day,” in which she “encourage[s] the residents of this state to choose not to eat meat.” This is part of a larger campaign by the “Meatout” folks [...]
