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)

Thanks, Ian Luxmoore…
…for a friendly, respectful, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable conversation about life, god, the universe, morality and all the rest.

September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: atheism, belief, debate, evolution, faith, god, life, order, philosophy, religion, science, theism, truth | Category: general | Comments (4)

The Christian response to the ‘Faithful Science’ day-conference have been mixed.
Most of the appreciative and complementary feedback has been email or verbal.  As for the less-appreciative feedback, unfortunately it’s been more public.
First, the Christian newspaper “Challenge Weekly” published a (to say it kindly) selective and less-than-inaccurate piece entitled “Conference fuels Controversy” (which can be viewed [...]

September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: belief, creation, evolution, faith, philosophy, religion, science, theology | Category: bible, christianity, science, theology | Comments (9)

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)

Whether or not one agrees with Gould’s famous dictum that Religion and Science are Non-Overlapping Magisteria, it occurs to me that unless a given Religion says absolutely nothing at all about the things which Science also investigates, then at least they will be related.
A far better question, of course, is how they might be related.

April 30th, 2009 | Tags: belief, creation, faith, philosophy, religion, science | Category: philosophy, science, theology | Comments (17)

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 2009 Gifford Lectures, “A Fine-Tuned Universe: Science, Theology and the Quest for Meaning”, presented by Alister McGrath, are all up online in PDF format.
Lecture 1: Yearning to make sense of things - 2009 Gifford Lecture 1.pdf
Lecture 2: Why we still need natural theology – 2009 Gifford Lecture 2.pdf
Lecture 3: The mystery of the constants of nature [...]

April 24th, 2009 | Tags: alister mcgrath, belief, books, evolution, faith, god, natural theology, religion, science, theology | Category: philosophy, science, theology, www | Comments (2)

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)