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2024-03-09

Wittgenstein and Hope beyond hope

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Recently a friend of mine posted a neat quote by Wittgenstein: One can imagine an animal angry, fearful, sad, joyful, startled. But hopeful?...
2022-07-26

Should we rethink the dates of the New Testament?

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Recently, New Testament scholar Jonathan Bernier has put forth a powerful proposal about  " Rethinking the Dates of the New Testament ...
2021-11-24

Religious Fascination

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I am fascinated by religion, and the process by which humans have created structures and norms and beliefs and practices which allow us to c...
2021-11-17

God Insists

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Two quests for God seem equally misguided: The quest to abolish God, and the quest to establish God. 
2021-10-05

Why we really believe what we believe

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So I’m on this religion discussion board, and recently the rather mundane observation was made that people’s religious beliefs tend to mirro...
2021-01-16

A Provocation on the Constant of Change

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The common sense insight that “the only constant is change” may have more going for it philosophically than we give to most platitudes. If c...
2020-04-03

When Words Fail

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How both Theistic and Nontheistic language fails to describe Ultimate Reality In the constant back and forth between Theists and Nonthe...
2019-01-28

In the Divine Symphony: Why I think God is Real

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In the school where I am chaplain, two of the skills we try to teach students are: First, how to build an evidence-based argument, and se...
2018-11-04

A provocation on Scriptural inspiration

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God inspired Scripture not only to show us what to DO, but also to show us what NOT to do. The Bible is not only filled with positive exampl...
2018-10-29

The Trajectory we follow in interpreting Scripture

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For the last several years, I have been tweaking a Hebrew and Greek daily Scripture reading system, with a lectionary for reading through ...
2018-10-13

Childlike Faith and the Neverending Story

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I watched the Neverending Story with my kids this morning. This movie impressed me deeply as a child with a view of imagination, and mul...
2018-09-11

Truth is always Stranger

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Tertullian once said “I believe because it is absurd”. It is the strangeness of an idea— it’s undeniable texture and inconsistent densi...
2017-12-06

On Physics, Possibility, and Resurrection

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Recently I was in a discussion about the Resurrection of Christ in which someone posted that "classical theism allows for the possib...
2017-09-13

Following Jesus without God?

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As many who read this blog know, I am a Christian priest who serves as a school chaplain and head of religious studies at an Episcopal Mi...
2017-08-24

On making images

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When taken at their best Even idols give us glimpses Of the God beyond words And reveal that uncontained Other Contained in matter and m...
2017-06-16

Holy Crap

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This is a poem inspired by Philippians 3.8 and it is not for the easily offended. So if you are easily offended, please read something el...
2017-03-10

Chasing Falsifiability down the Rabbit Hole to Transcendence

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In my Philosophy of Religion class the other day, a student brought up Karl Popper’s principle of “falsifiability” as a criteria for whet...
2015-03-01

The Superstition of the Science of Superstition

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A colleague of mine recently sent me an article from the Atlantic entitled "T he Science of Superstition ", which appears to be...
2014-12-19

Is Religion JUST a response to fear?

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Beware of generalizations that start with "every" or "all", as they are almost always wrong. A recent article on io...
2014-12-17

Neuroscience, Philosophy, God and Jackson Pollock

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A Pollock painting or random paint splatters? You decide. A friend of mine who is a librarian recently sent me a link to an interest...