fruitful faith

Have you ever thought about what it means to say that you own something?

December 28th, 2009 | Tags: christianity, ethics, judaism, ownership, politics, religion, sharing, stewardship | Category: christianity, ethics, general, philosophy, politics | Comments (4)

Jonathan Robinson discusses science and biblical interpretation here.
Ryan Browning responds to young-earth views here.

June 7th, 2009 | Tags: christianity, evolution, interpretation, science | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology, www | Comments (3)

What Genesis 1-3 is not: a play-by-play, atom-by-atom historical and scientific account of creation.  The author/community which produced the text clearly had other things in mind than producing such a thing.*
This is widely accepted by people who should know: scholars in fields relevant to Genesis 1-3 (biblical scholars, ancient near east religion scholars, hebrew linguists, [...]

May 5th, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, christianity, creation, debate, faith, religion, science | Category: atheism, bible, christianity, philosophy, science, theology | Comments (110)

Mark your calendars and register!
TANSA (Theology and the Natural Sciences Aotearoa) presents:
The Theological Meaning of Evolution
Conference to celebrate and interact with Darwin.
Thursday June 25th at 7pm to Saturday June 27th at 6pm
Key Note Speaker: Dr. Christopher Southgate, author of The  Groaning of Creation University of Exeter
Local Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Ruth Barton (Auckland), Assoc. Prof. John [...]

May 1st, 2009 | Tags: christianity, creation, ethics, evil, evolution, faith, god, natural theology, order, philosophy, religion, science, theology | Category: bible, christianity, philosophy, science, theology | Comments (7)

omni (all) + potent (powerful)
All red herrings about making rocks too heavy to lift or making a 5-sided triangle aside, the notion of God’s omnipotence at least implies that God has the potential to do literally anything.

April 28th, 2009 | Tags: christianity, god, jesus, love, theology | Category: bible, christianity, theology | Comments (3)

Over at xenos theology, Jonathan Robinson draws out attention to:

5 ebooks on evolution and Christian belief – summing up 2 years of blogging/commenting at this blog (see links to ebooks on right side-bar).
and…
this book review of this book: The Bible, Rocks and Time: Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth by Davis A. Young [...]

April 25th, 2009 | Tags: belief, christianity, evolution, religion, science | Category: bible, science, www | Leave a comment

The problem with questions like is God “real?” or does God “exist“? is that the most basic understanding of God (let’s assume monotheistic belief for the moment) is that the sum total of existing reality (the Bible says ‘all things’) was created (caused, desired, effected, brought about) by Him.
If this stretches the mind (not to [...]

April 23rd, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, christianity, creation, god, religion, theology, worldview | Category: atheism, philosophy, science, theology | Comments (44)

“Holy rusted metal, BArT ehrMAN!”  (yes, I just typed that; many cheese-ness awards shall I win…)
Respected (and prolific! given the rate he publishes blogs and books!) New Testament Scholar Ben Witherington III is doing an astoundingly in-depth review of Bart Ehrman’s ‘Jesus Interrupted’ (parts 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 and 5) [...]

April 20th, 2009 | Tags: Bart Ehrman, belief, ben witherington iii, christianity, faith, gospel, interpretation, jesus, religion, web | Category: bible, theology, www | Leave a comment

absolutely frickin’ genius.
(hat tip BW3)
(also – don’t miss the web links right throughout – many of the names, etc. have links to relevant webpages!)

April 5th, 2009 | Tags: Bart Ehrman, christianity, current event, jesus, technology, web | Category: bible, christianity, technology, www | Leave a comment