Conor Cunningham, Eric Austin Lee

Ultra-Darwinism and Creation’s Sabbath: An Interview with Conor Cunningham, Part II

In his recently published Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get it Wrong, Conor Cunningham, the Co-Director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, surveys the vast expanse of evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, philosophy of mind, naturalism, and intelligent design and skillfully argues against the reductive logics […]

Adams Miller

Suffering Servant

In an older post, I included the accompanying image of the “Suffering Servant” without proper attribution. The image is beautiful and striking and I wanted to apologize to its author, Marcella Paliekara, for my failure. If you’re interested in this image or in her other work, you can contact Marcella at Paliekara@yahoo.com.

Brett David Potter

Life, Afterlife and Rob Bell in Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter”

At a crucial point in the film “Hereafter” (2010), a reluctant psychic (played by Matt Damon) visits the home of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens in London. On the wall is a famous painting: “Dickens’ Dream,” where the famous writer is pictured asleep, encircled by the spectral figures of the characters he brought to life in […]

Thomas Turner

Al Jazeera and American Self-Censorship

Several weeks ago, as the protests in Egypt were boiling over and radical change was about to take place the American media was caught off guard and didn’t have people on the ground covering the story. The omni-presence of 24/7 cable news looked a bit stifled and out of touch with the world outside American […]

Brian D. McLaren

Faith Beyond All Answers: A Response to John Piper’s Theodicy

John Piper didn’t waste any time. Six days after the devastating earthquake in Japan, he published a post on his Desiring God blog entitled “Japan: After Empathy and Aid, People Want Answers.”  Here the revered Reformed Baptist theologian and pastor plunges (as he has done on many occasions before) boldly into the field of theodicy. […]

Conor Cunningham, Eric Austin Lee

Ultra-Darwinism and Creation’s Sabbath: An Interview with Conor Cunningham, Part I

In his recently published Darwin’s Pious Idea: Why the Ultra-Darwinists and Creationists Both Get it Wrong, Conor Cunningham, the Co-Director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Nottingham, surveys the vast expanse of evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, philosophy of mind, naturalism, and intelligent design and skillfully argues against the reductive logics […]

Kelly Hickman

Lent & Rango: It’s About the Desert

It is the liturgical season of Lent, week two. Lent is Latin for “spring,” the season in which life sprouts, blossoms, hatches, emerges forth. The prophet Isaiah proclaims, The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad, the desert shall rejoice and blossom; like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. […]

Aaron Darrisaw

I “Like” Christianity

When Mark Zuckerberg (and others) developed Facebook some 7 years ago, part of the vision behind its creation was to transform the way people related and interacted.  The newly developed Facebook was a venue of sorts, which afforded people an opportunity to openly give and receive information.  It is more than obvious that Zuckerberg has […]

Larry Gilman

On the Origin of Specious: Why Does Religion Exist?

When did religion arise?  Judging by burial practices, perhaps about 95,000 years ago.  That is the age of the oldest known symbolic burial site, a grave in Qafzeh, Israel where a nine-year old is buried with their legs bent and a deer antler cradled in their arms (Elizabeth Culotta, “On the Origin of Religion,” Science, Nov. […]