Randall Stephens The above was Erasmus’s tongue-in-cheek version of counterfactual scholastic flimflammery. He reduced his angel-dancing-on-pinhead opponents to stuttering monkeys. Certainly, not all counterfactuals are worth their weight in imaginary gold.
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What if Jesus Had Come to Earth as a Cucumber? American Religious History Counterfactuals
Paul Harvey Can science explain the evolution of religion, or why there is religion at all? The somewhat obscure public radio show The Really Big Questions , hosted by Lynn Neary, explores this. Just caught the show this weekend, and it was a terrific hour of radio which summarizes a lot of the contending thought on applying evolution to the study of religion in human societies
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The Evolution of Religion, on The Really Big Questions
With Passover coming up Monday evening, Temple Beth-El set aside a special night beforehand for the people who typically pour themselves into holiday logistics and meal preparation: women. 10th annual Women’s Seder
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Women’s Seder mixes Passover tradition with contemporary
Invariably the reply I receive to my pointing out that God’s eternal law is love and not a laundry list of do’s and don’ts is: “but God’s law teaches us how to love.” Of course, the reference to the law is usually meaning the Ten Commandments specifically (as if they can really be separated from all the rest that Israel said “we will” to).
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Does the Law Teach Us How To Love?
This is a rather interesting story — members of the Share International new age/ecumenical cult have set their sights on a London-born author as the fulfillment of their “prophesied” messiah, Maitreya. Benjamin Creme, the cult’s founder, apparently refuses to confirm or deny what some of his followers believe… I’m pointing this out Related posts: !Alert!: Coming of Maitreya ‘The Christ’ A New, More Believable False Christ To Emerge After Christmas
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Benjamin Creme’s Share International/Maitreya Followers Point To Author As ‘Messiah’
I don’t get too much into the heretics unless I come across something really disgusting and offensive to the LORD our GOD (I would get dizzy trying to follow them all). The so-called emergent church movement is one heretical movement I try not to pay too much attention to (although I do follow Mr. Ken Related posts: Videos: Dr
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Video: Mr. John Piper On The ‘White, Fading’ Emergent Church
What is your vision of heaven? What images – from Scripture, tradition, culture or your personal experience – best describe heaven for you? Read Newsweek religion editor Lisa Miller’s new book: “Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife.”…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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What (or where, or why) is heaven?
It’s been a slow news month in the world of ecumenicism. I mean, if it weren’t for Louis Farrakhan shooting off his lip again, Kenneth Copeland’s jet and Ed Young’s palatial “tax-exempt” estate (wink), I would not have enough spray paint on this wall to fill a huffer’s need to get high.
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Resurrection. Shmesurrection. Bring on the Bunnies!
What should pastors do if they no longer hold the defining beliefs of their denomination? Do clergy have a moral obligation not to challenge the sincere faith of their parishioners? If this requires them to dissemble from the pulpit, doesn’t this create systematic hypocrisy at the center of religion?
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Disbelief in the pulpit
This video can… and does a good job too. In marketing, we call it an “elevator pitch”. Essentially, cut the crap and get to it.
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Cross Eyed: Can you define Christianity in 2 minutes or less?