Recent Discussions

The Wright/Ehrman and Jones/Hansen blogalogues

I was interested to run across a couple of online dialogues between people with different beliefs last week.
NT Wright (Christian) and Bart Ehrman (agnostic) just completed a ‘blogalogue’ on Beliefnet called Is Our Pain God’s Problem?
I was encouraged to see each of them being friendly and respectful. I resonate more with Bart Ehrman’s comments which [...]

| Posted on: May 8, 2008 | 4 Comments

An Evangelical Manifesto

The website An Evangelical Manifesto just went live a few minutes ago. It’s been mentioned in the news over the last few days. Now the complete text and list of charter signatories are online. Both of which I was curious to see.
I’m interested by who’s absent from the charter signatories as well as who’s [...]

| Posted on: May 7, 2008 | 57 Comments

Blog carnival on resistance

Beth Patterson of Virtual Teahouse just posted her second blog carnival on Resistance and Engaged Spirituality - go check it out! I submitted this post to it.
(Edited to add: originally I wrote Virtual Treehouse but Beth just reminded me with a smile that it’s Virtual Teahouse :))

| Posted on: May 7, 2008 | 0 Comments

The Fall of the Evangelical Nation

An interview with Christine Wicker

Christine Wicker’s provocative new book, The Fall of the Evangelical Nation: The Surprising Crisis Inside the Church, was released last week.
I asked Christine a few questions about her book and her own beliefs.
Christine, in what way is the Evangelical Church in crisis?
I’ve posted a sampling of [...]

| Posted on: May 4, 2008 | 17 Comments

Resistance and Spiritual Engagement

I wrote this for Beth’s blog carnival on resistance.
A few years ago I started resistance training. I was persuaded into it by hearing how wonderfully good for me it is. The resistance of lifting moderately heavy weights strengthens my muscles and bones - it’s excellent physical exercise. Resistance training is quite popular - [...]

| Posted on: May 3, 2008 | 5 Comments