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Rattling cages
Activists in California are trying to get an inititative on the ballot that would provide laying hens with more space and better conditions. As the story points out, this follows on the heels of similar measures in Arizona, Oregon, and Florida. One hopes this is a trend. My hunch has always been that people will…
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Cop-out blogging
Stuff I considered writing blog posts on but didn’t: *This post by Derek on what Phyllis Tickle calls “The Great Emergence” *Social conservatives versus Rudy Giuliani *This book, which I read while traveling last week *My current ambiguous ecclesial affiliations P.S. Firefly=awesome! My wife and I started watching this for the second time around last…
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Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway on the current Anglican unpleasantness
I don’t typically comment on the doings of the Anglican Communion (I’m at best a part-time Episcopalian and you can get plenty of that stuff elsewhere), but I thought this address by the Primate of the Scottish Episcopal Church was good. Maybe it’s just the Scotsman in me that’s partial to it. 😉
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A Christian nation?
This interview with John McCain has caused a minor furor on account of his claims that the “the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation” and his saying that he would hesitate to vote for a Muslim candidate for president. Now, assuming this accurately represents Sen. McCain’s views rather than being…
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God’s glory is etched on his creation
I’ve been reading this abridged Institutes of the Christian Religion that I referred to in the last post and liked this passage quite a bit: Since complete happiness is knowing God, in order that no one should be prevented from finding that happiness, he has kindly put in our minds the seed of true religion…
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Calvin on the Atonement and God’s wrath
One of the problems with penal substitutionary theories of the Atonement, at least as sometimes presented, is that, on the one hand, they present God the Father as being unable to be reconciled to humanity until his wrath is spent, but on the other hand, the Bible is very clear that the work of Christ…
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Theologians, take heed!
The medieval philosophy and theology blog Scholasticus has posted a fantastic quote from philosopher Peter Van Inwagen: One advantage philosophers bring to theology is that they know too much about philosophy to be overly impressed by the fact that a particular philosopher has said this or that. Philosophers of the present day know what Thomas…
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Fryblog
My wife and I have recently been watching the DVDs of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, the hilarious British sketch comedy show with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie (now playing a misanthropic doctor on House, M.D.). They also, of course, did the Jeeves and Wooster series based on P.G. Wodehouse’s books. Today the Young…
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Wolterstorff on religion, liberty, and democracy
The other day I was browsing my iTunes library and came across this talk by Christian philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff on religious grounds for political liberty and democracy that I had apparently downloaded and then promptly forgot about. So I finally listened to it and it’s quite good. One of the points that Wolterstorff makes which,…
