As indicated in my previous post, here, two weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend a day conference entitled Give War a Chance, which focused on a new defence of Just War theory written by Nigel Biggar. Having not read the book, I found the summary he gave quite helpful. The book begins with a reaction to and defence against four arguments raised against his own proposal of what makes a just war. The...
Today I will be attending a conference on the topic of Just War at the University of St Andrews. Information can be found here: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/divinity/rt/conf/givewar/ I will be blogging in more detail about the conference in two weeks time, but I wanted to get down a few of my thoughts before attending that will hopefully order my own thoughts as well as introduce some of the things I might be thinking about when I write...
On March 28th Darren Aronofsky’s Noah will hit the big screens. Here’s the trailer, if you haven’t seen it yet. Big name director, big name stars, lots of CGI and Russel Crowe looking determined-against-all-odds. Good stuff. But the subject matter has a lot of people upset and debating whether or not this is a movie that Christians should support. The main arguments against it are the supposed inaccuracies in Aronofsky’s depiction of the biblical story....
Here’s a fun video: In case you don’t want to watch it: the video illustrates how 15 very common scientific illustrations are, technically speaking, inaccurate. Imprecise might be a better word. They don’t actually tell you what is going on in. I doubt very many people watching this thought, “Oh no, my trust in science has been misguided. I will never trust another scientist again, or go to a laboratory, or read a science book....
What does it mean that the “word of God is living?” That’s a big question, but I will only focus on one part. I think that it is of fundamental importance to recognize that, in every day speech, there are two very different sorts of existence that we describe as “alive.” Before we apply the label of “living” to a text we have to decide what sort of living thing it is. These two sorts...
The seminary where I spent a formative two years had a big, customizable sign out in front, the kind you see outside of a lot of churches. These signs are usually changed periodically, usually to announce a sermon topic or share a groan-worthy humorous aphorism. Our sign never changed; it always read: “Timeless truths for truth-less times”. That little saying fit a lot of what our seminary was about: apologetics for a post-modern world with...
It should go without saying at this point that the Western World is thoroughly post-Christian, and that goes for America as well as Europe, even if it is still to a lesser degree. One of the most obvious results in this shift is that the “Judeo-Christian” ethic is no longer a guiding light behind our collective moral decision making. It seems that for a few years there was a very clear, loud, and futile protest...
“Covert Messiah” is the latest theory delving into alternatives to the New Testament understanding of the origins of Christianity. Joseph Atwill explains that Christianity was originally an elaborate hoax created by the Roman government as a means of pacifying the usually tumultuous land of 1st century Judea. He writes, “Jesus Christ is a fabricated cover story for an Imperial psychological warfare operation born out of the First Jewish-Roman War in the first century.”[1] Based on his...
The American government has (partially) shut down, and the internet is buzzing! Is this a breakdown of democracy? Are the Republicans acting like spoiled children, having lost the game but refusing to give up the ball. Or is it the Democrats fault, shoving through some unrealistic piece of trash and then insisting it be implemented? These are the kinds of serious questions currently sweeping across my Facebook news-feed. The fury with which frames these kinds...
My wife and I are expecting our first baby this December. Right now he is a little 2.5 lb boy kicking around and, we imagine, enjoying himself. A couple of weeks ago one of my wife’s coworkers was diagnosed with cancer. She died last night. Two weeks ago she was in the office, feeling a bit unwell, and now she is gone. Life and death. I am constantly amazed at how strange and remarkable these...
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