Even the Devils Believe

I mentioned before that Brazos Press was releasing commentaries on 1 & 2 Kings and Matthew in their Theological Commentary on the Bible series. I just received a notification from Amazon that the Hauerwas volume (Matthew) has been delayed. It looks like now it’s not being released until after the first of the [...]

Tyler had some great comments on my earlier post about Barth and proofs of God. My response got too detailed to really fit in a comment. These are the two categories he proposes when talking about how we can arrive at truths about God:
Exclusivist: Theological truths are available only through special revelation, they are not [...]

As many of you know, I grew up in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod. I was interested by The young fogey’s mention today of a “Lutho-Catholic” pastor resigning to join the Orthodox. The statement on the congregation’s website refers to him as Father and their district president as Bishop (titled Right Reverend — [...]

Firas Ahmad asks a pertinent question at alt.muslim — “Is one offensive cleric more important than 38 reasonable ones?”
On October 12th of this month, 38 highly respected and theologically diverse clerics from the Muslim world wrote what is widely considered a respectful and engaging “Open Letter” to the Pope in response to his controversial comments [...]

Via connexions, UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks comments on Richard Dawkins’ new book, The God Delusion:
I only wish I had as much faith as the learned professor. It would be nice to believe that if you cured people of believing in God, you would thereby have cured them of hate, violence, anger, injustice, cruelty and [...]

I’ve been reading Barth’s Dogmatics in Outline this week, finding it provocative if a little thin. Obviously I need to read the whole Church Dogmatics eventually!
Anyhow, following up on yesterday’s post about the New Atheists, I thought I would share a little of what Barth has to say about proofs for God’s existence. Dawkins’ [...]

Wired has an interesting article up called “Battle of the New Atheism” — it’s their cover story for November. The author, Gary Wolf, looks into the “evangelical atheism” of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and others who believe that religion must be eradicated and replaced with a cult of reason.
Dawkins rejected all these claims, but the [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Jeff wrote a great post about how the emerging church movement has affected him in looking for a more “missional” kind of UCC identity. In that post, he captured what I think is a big part of what’s weighing down the mainline right now:
People are waiting for churches to be [...]

People of Faith Against the Death Penalty sent out an advisory today that Guy LeGrande, a mentally ill person who was hired by another North Carolina man to kill his estranged wife, has been scheduled for execution on December 1. The case is simply a travesty of justice, with the state failing to provide [...]

I visited DailyKos earlier today (typically I can’t stomach any of those big political blogs, right or left, but it’s election season and I follow the polls) and came across this tragic story of a man who stole $80 from a bank and turned himself in as a way of avoiding poverty for the last [...]