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 isn’t surprising given my own viewpoint (almost atheist).
I wish there had been one more response from Bart Ehrman so he could have answered this final question from NT Wright: Read the rest of this entry »
05-08-2008 |
4 Comments »In his new book, “God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question — Why We Suffer” Bart Ehrman explains why he stopped being a Christian. The Wall Street Journal included an interesting interview with him last week.
According to their interview Bart is hearing from many other people like him
WSJ: In the first chapter of your book, you write that you have lost your faith, that you no longer go to church, and that you don’t consider yourself a Christian. Isn’t this unusual for somebody with such a long and serious religious background?
Mr. Ehrman: I’m getting hundreds of emails, and more than half are from people with conservative religious upbringings who now so doubt their faith that they don’t know what to call themselves. Also, departments of religious studies are notorious for being staffed by people who don’t believe in the traditions that they teach.
Bart was also interviewed on NPR recently. Their page links to their interview and includes this excerpt from his book Read the rest of this entry »
03-11-2008 |
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