Tag: theology
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Perspective
the abortion debate presumes that pregnancy itself contributes nothing essential to the creation of a rights-bearing person
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Feast of the Ascension
It’s today. I love this picture so much. I’ve learned that the iconography of the disappearing feet is a pretty late medieval development – more on that at Ad Imaginem Dei – and that there is lots more of it. The earlier iconography of the ascension is equally awesome, though. Much more recently, Salvador Dali’s […]
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Distance
We had class yesterday morning entirely by zoom, which is possible now that we’ve had a global pandemic and all needed to master this technology for remote conversation. I’m glad for that – for the technology, and for the being able to have class, and that people still want to have class when some of […]
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A Model of Abundance
“What Did the Early Church Say About Economic Justice?” – from Plough – this morning’s email. Image: “Stilleben: Alter Wein und Brot,” Albert Anker, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Studying Revelation 11 15-19
What do we think it means for God to rule everything, to reign? Especially in a world in which things are demonstrably “out of order”? We’ll probably have to examine some of our own thinking along these lines, as we study Revelation 11:15-19 for Sunday, November 14. [Here are some questions on the text.] Here […]
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Reflecting on Romans 4 1-12
What do we learn from Paul’s argument about Abraham in Romans 4? What do we actually do with it in our own lives? That’s one question we might ask or want to discuss in class as we are studying Romans 4:1-12. [Some notes on the text are here.] Here are a few others: Do we […]
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Tough Questions for Thinking Faith
Why is there still an ongoing feud between “the creationists” and “the evolutionists”? I know there is one. I know that some people are deeply invested in one side or the other of this argument, to the tune of having written whole books, or built whole expensive and unaccountably popular theme parks down the road […]
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Maybe Metaphysics After All
Almost no one operates without some metaphysical paradigm, if indeed anyone does. Being a modernist-postmodernist kind of thinker, I have gone along for decades assuming that whatever those metaphysical premises are, they are simply unprovable. At some point, a person just has to decide what she’s going to accept. That view traces back to Kant, […]
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Courage, and Jubilation
A sermon for the Fourth Sunday of Easter: The scriptures during Easter mostly focus on messages of Christ’s triumphant new life and victory over death. So it might surprise us that the Fourth Sunday of Easter, every year, the Sunday that is called Jubilate Sunday – Jubilation Sunday, “shout for joy” Sunday – has also […]
Matters of Interpretation 