Thomas Adams at the blog Without Authority has a couple of good posts on a “modest” natural theology, especially as it interacts with modern science. Natural theology still seems to be largely on the outs in contemporary theology, owing perhaps to the influence Barth still exerts, as well as the recent trend toward seeing theology…

Matthew Yglesias has a good response to this Andrew Sullivan post calling for “hard thinking on the left” in the wake of the Danish cartoon brouhaha: Andrew Sullivan writes, with regard to the cartoon riots: People keep talking about avoiding conflict. They are in denial. The conflict is already here. It is outrageous to be…

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We’re ambivalent about doubt, I think. On the one hand, we admire the person whose faith is so robust that they seem to be able to act with complete trust and confidence. Other the other hand, we tend to be a little bit afraid of the person whose faith is so robust that they seem…

Oh dear: If popularity is next to godliness, Eagle Brook Church is the holiest place in Minnesota. The Lino Lakes church became the state’s largest this month, with weekly attendance of 8,000.And that’s without the cup holders. The new $24 million building is designed to make worship as comfortable as possible, and movie-theater-style cup holders…

Fr. Jim Tucker has a good balanced post on the cartoon controversy: A number of editorials make the point that if media can disrespect Christianity (Rolling Stone’s current cover, for instance), Islam shouldn’t be given a free pass. That’s playground logic. In reality, media shouldn’t take great, offensive swipes against Christianity, either (or any serious…

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The religious person should not seek an accommodation with liberalism; he should seek to rout it from the field, to extirpate it, root and branch. — Stanley Fish This line from celebrity literary intellectual Stanley Fish occurred to me in light of the controversy over the cartoons printed in Denmark which have sparked numerous protests…

This piece overreaches in a few places (the cell phone user as Gnostic is a bit of a stretch), but makes some salient points about the ubiquity of the cell and its consequences. As far as I can tell, what we have is a new technology that has cut across the public/private distinction. Talking on…