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Passion Allergy?

I came across a statement in Terry Eagleton’s Reason, Faith, and Revolution (highly recommended!) that rang true to my experience here at Union Theological Seminary: “Some postmodernists suspect that all certainty is authoritarian. They are nervous of people who sound passionately committed to  what they say.” (p. 136) What Eagleton is saying applies, I think, [...]

“I believe in order to understand”

The following three statements, from three different people, make sense of one another: Pascal: We must love things before we can know them. Kierkegaard: A believer is someone in love. St.Anselm: I believe in order to understand. To really understand something we have to be in a relationship with it, involved with it, to some [...]

A Priest or A Soldier

The re-boot of the early 1980s TV show “V” has caused me to ponder the role of ordained ministers in violent conflict and the singularity of homo sapiens as special creations of God.

Re: Dollar, Dollar Bills Y’all

Ah, the Prosperity Gospel. Let me get one thing out of the way before diving into the contents of the article Preston posted: I’m 100% against the Prosperity Gospel. My personal belief is that faithful adherence to Christianity calls us to question, if not absolutely reject, Capitalism. Accordingly, I am no friend of the Prosperity [...]

About The Wheat and the Chaff

At its base, this blog/dialogue (“blog-o-logue” anyone?) will be a review of religion in the news. Presuming we can pick out the most provocative, conversation-starting religious news, we’ll be looking to separate the wheat from the chaff, if you will. That is, we’ll not simply be looking for the most popular topics concerning religion in [...]

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