Soul Sorting and Election In my prior posts on the “soul sort narrative,” I’ve commented on what I’ve called the Chick Tract Gospel and on the theme of Justice.  I suggested in those posts that the real issue is not the fact of “sorting,” but the question of “election.”  In my mind, this is the heart of the “theodicy of…

How have theologians understood — or explained — the Trinity? Ron Highfield’s new book, Great Is the Lord: Theology for the Praise of God , sketches the “Trinity” as well as I’ve seen for an introductory text and the 3d section of chp 4 is about the theological understanding of the Trinity. He sees three levels of understanding…

Washington Post has a new question in its “On Faith” discussion: Sarah Palin pleased fans and angered foes with her speech to the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List, calling herself a “frontier feminist” and saying, “choosing life may not be the easiest path, but it’s always the right path . . . God sees a…

From the NYTimes, where we see an article that pushes the line that there is a generational gap on the immigration issue. Forget sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll; immigration is a new generational fault line. In the wake of the new Arizona law allowing the police to detain people they suspect of entering the…

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