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The Original Sin SeriesIntro–Intuition–Definition–Genesis–Jesus–Paul-Augustine-Calvin-Conclusion Well, now we get to the heart of the matter, and the passage that so many of my blogopponents have been waiting for: Romans 5.  It’s in this chapter that Paul writes most specifically about the inherited nature of sin, and it is from this passage that the two most articulate…

“Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.” ~Buddha(HT: Tiny Buddha)

Charles Darwin‘s wife, Emma, famously disliked her husband’s theories, and he actually wrote On the Origin of Species in a way that he hoped wouldn’t be offensive to her.  Well, it seems that a sesquicentury later, the two are still locked in a struggle for the hearts and minds of Americans. Acceptance of Evolution, By…

Andrew Sullivan posted a graf from Alan Jacobs in which Jacobs argues that the “architecture” of blogs makes it impossible to honestly converse about important and weighty matters, like the existence of God.  This question is particularly compelling for this blog, since we’re tackling Original Sin, same sex marriage, and the like. Jacobs: Blog posts…

Rick takes a break from telling us how the music that we love (read, Coldplay) actually sucks 🙂 to round up many of the new hyphen-mergent groups: Relevemergent the fine line between Relevant magazine, cool churches with smoke machines, killer bands and hot java, but little theology and the Emerging church conversation. These guys like…

That’s the dream of none other than esteemed Catholic theologian, Hans Kung.  At Religion Dispatches, Rosemary Ganley reports, To get right to the point, Kung in his article on February 3, wished Barack Obama were Pope. “The mood in the church is oppressive, reforms are paralyzed, and the church in crisis,” he says. “Benedict is…

Help add to Brandon’s list of crazy stuff you’ve heard around church.  My faves: 1. Your message was good. You didn’t blaspheme the Holy Spirit or anything. 2. What is the deal with your weight? 9. Don’t you think your secretary is too attractive? 14. You should warn people first before you show pictures of…

In this week’s edition of Newsweek, Richard Mouw, the president of Fuller Theological Seminary, penned an essay, “Less Shouting, More Talking,” in which he addresses the issues around Prop 8.  It’s clear that he wrote it, in part, as a response to the infamous issue of Newsweek in which both Jon Meacham and Lisa Miller…

Thanks, Brian: The Quaker theologian Parker Palmer says it well: “Truth is an ongoing conversation about things that matter.”

These Christians don’t….um…you know…
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