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Eugene McCarraher on Hitchens
I wrote a while back that I’d like to see Christopher Hitchens debate a serious Christian thinker. We may have found our man.
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“May the Force be with you.” “And also with you!”
Last night I gave a presentation on “The Gospel According to Star Wars” under the auspices of our parish’s “Theology on Tap” series. This barmy idea was cooked up by me and our curate after a couple of beers at last summer’s parish picnic, but I think it went well all things considered. The people…
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Paris Hilton: scapegoat
I find myself in the rare position of agreeing with Christopher Hitchens on this. So, what’s the deal here? Is it that we feel ashamed for paying so much attention to Hilton, et al. that we heap scorn and derision on her at the first opportunity in order to feel better about ourselves?
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On almost being liturgically indifferent
See here for a well-informed (my comment excepted) discussion on things liturgical in light of the rumored forthcoming liberalization of the use of the pre-Vatican II Mass in the RCC. Obviously Protestants don’t directly have a horse in this race, but as Derek points out what the RCC does tends to affect Protestant bodies. I…
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How animal rights gets a bad name
It seems to me that there a few reasons that animal rights groups get a bad reputation, even among those who might be expected to be sympathetic to the cause of better treatment for animals. First, animal rights groups, like activist groups of all stripes, have a tendency to use rhetoric that is imprecise at…
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Modest natural theology and epistemic pluralism
At the suggestion of Andy and Thomas I started reading some John Polkinghorne, the physicist and Anglican priest, this weekend. I picked up his Belief in God in an Age of Science, the only title of his they had at our library. It’s a collection of lectures Polkinghorne gave at Yale in 1996, with some…
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More on evolution, human dignity, etc.
Thomas at Without Authority has a great post exploring the threat posed to human dignity by the acceptance of a sheerly materialistic philosophy. Also, for what it’s worth, last week’s post on Sam Brownback got a nod at Slate here (and thanks to Thomas for bringing that to my attention). There have also been some…
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Sibling rivalry
This is interesting – Peter Hitchens, who unlike his brother Christopher, is religious, conservative, and opposed the war in Iraq – reviews the latter’s God Is Not Great.
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Brownback vs. Darwin?
I don’t think I’m saying anything wildly controversial when I say that it’s extremely unlikely that Sam Brownback will be our next president. And given his general philosophy of “compassionate conservatism” on steroids, I think that’s probably a good thing. Still, it’s interesting that Brownback felt the need to take the pages of the NY…
