Category: Ethics

Last Saturday I was buying coffee at the supermarket and purchased a copy of Psychology Today on a random impulse. Ok. Ok. Maybe it was a subconscious urge. Though I currently enjoy psychology a great deal (as evidenced by the...

News item today got me thinking: a ten year old girl was disturbed because she observed a man a the Seattle public library watching pornography the a library computer. The librarian was apparently sympathetic when the parent...

If you've been around theology and philosophy you probably know about Friedrich Nietzsche's famous statement that "God is dead." (You may be unaware of some of the follow ups such as "Nietzsche is dead - God" and "God is dead,...

Just finished Ben Witherington's new little book, Is there a Doctor in the House? It has a bit of the feel of a reminiscence but is mainly advice for younger folk who are thinking about becoming Christian scholars. It is...

We had a very interesting discussion this AM at church in our "post-Service discussion group" (not "Sunday School"). The question was "What is Truth and how do we talk about it?" We did the typical Christian thing, which is to...

UPDATE: See below for a response from Mars Hill and my comments. First, to be fair, I have not seen a statement by Mars Hill on this. But the fact that there is nothing readily available seems to suggests that... there is...

I had fun sharpening swords with Marc Cortez over at Scientia et Sapientia last week over the Christian view of personal freedom.  We might also call this the "Calvinism - Arminianism" debate to make it more easily...

I've been waiting to write on this until A) someone lent me a copy of the book or B) I found a good explanation online of what he is actually affirming beneath all the murky water surrounding the "love wins" debacle. I'd like...

I had a chance to preach a fun sermon this last Sunday at my home church, Roosevelt Community Church. The topic was: the environment. I approached it like this: While a passage like John 3:16 ("God so loved the world")...

Having read the Birth of Tragedy in the company of friends, said company has now moved on now to Stanley Hauerwas' Peaceable Kingdom. Obviously, Nietzsche says nothing about Hauerwas in his writings, and as far as I can tell,...