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And to think, I almost liked Sam Harris
Sam Harris c. 2007. Image source: Wikimedia Commons I have just finished reading Sam Harris‘s The End of Faith. And for some reason, coming after my rereading of The God Delusion as it did, I kind of...
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On upper-class medieval persons, Bronze-Age goat herders, and...
Almost enlightened, but not quite: Sir Frederick William Herschel, artist unknown. Image source: Wikimedia Commons “Imagine we could revive a well-educated Christian of the fourteenth century. The man...
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On depression and “Buddhist science”
Not depressed: HHDL’s call for “Buddhist science” may make sense. Image source: buddhachannel.tv Several years ago I went on antidepressants. It was one of the most difficult, drawn-out, painful...
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The shape of our ignorance: Catherine Keller on life’s contradictions
Catherine Keller. Image source: Vancouver School of Theology A couple of days ago there appeared, at Religion Dispatches, an interview with theologian Catherine Keller. I read some of Keller’s stuff as...
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In which I defend theological doohickey postmodernist BS
Benozzo Gozzoli, The Glory of Saint Thomas Aquinas. 1468-1484. Thomas, nearly as postmodern a chap as Nicholas of Cusa, was keenly aware of the difficulties inherent in all God-talk. He dealt with the...
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Eleven on solitude
Marc Chagall, Elijah Touched by an Angel, from the Bible suite, 1958. Image source: The Jewish Museum, New York Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with...
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Start with the person: Why I affirm same-sex marriage
Ceri Richards, The Supper at Emmaus, gouache, 1958. Image used with permission of the trustees of the Methodist Modern Art Collection, UK On that same day two of them were going to a village called...
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