I was a 23 year old student attending a small Christian college in San Diego, Ca. when Karol Józef Wojtyła was elected as pope. I wasn’t even Catholic at the time, but I remember how his election electrified the world. John Paul II was the first Polish pope ever elected and the first non-Italian pope elected [...]
There is an excellent post at Panda’s Thumb by Jack Scanlan, entitled “Does intelligent design have a dualistic assumption, not a theistic one?“. I think Jack has made a very astute observation. I suppose I think this because I agree with what he is saying… that the so called “Intelligent Design” argument is actually based [...]
Whether or not you eat soul food or whether or not you listen to soul music, you probably find it quite offensive or disturbing to hear someone suggest to you that you don’t really have a soul. The first response among most people, whether they are religious or not, is one of amazement that someone [...]
There is a lot of noise coming from people like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Daniel Dennett, to the effect that religion does more harm than good and therefore should be eradicated from the face of the Earth (Witness a recent debate on the goodness or badness of religion between Hitchens and Tony Blair). The [...]
Divine Acton. How do we understand and talk about God acting in the world if everything is evolving? So to continue what I began in part 1, part, 2 and part 3…The concept of divine action, or how we understand God acting in the world, is critical for a lot of different reasons. As we [...]
