Bowls of Milk
Something about nineteenth-century America made great novelists shoot for immense public success by eliminating what it was about their writing that made them great. The most obvious and egregious example…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #32.1: Church Music Revisited
General Introduction – Where’s Michial teach again? – Stuck in the middle with the soulless Calvinists – The plan for November Talking Back, Not Bach – One hand in the…
The Hoosier on Daylight Saving Time, November 2010
And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament to signal the coming of day and the passing of night, and let their courses be set until the end…
On Emotion and Worship
I figured our discussion on last week’s podcast, in which we proclaimed that the most important part of a hymn or worship song is the doctrinal content and that emotional…
Loose Thoughts on Epicurus
Every now and then, I come across an author whose work is radically different from what I’ve always thought. Whether the fault of the misunderstanding lies with my teachers or…
Stop with the Nicene Creed? A (Brief) Further Reflection on Heresy
In last week’s episode (number 31) of the podcast, one of our discussions related to doctrine and dogma had to do with the category of heresy, one that Michial and…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #32: Church Music
General Introduction – How did we spend Halloween? – Mad Dog Gilmour is on the prowl – What’s on the blog? – Listener feedback Let’s Talk Churches – The praise-band…
It's Like the Christian Version of Memorial Day: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 1 November 2010
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 1 November 2010 (All Saints’ Day, Year C) Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18 and Psalm 149 •Ephesians 1:11-23 •Luke 6:20-31 I know that usually the weekly lectionary post…
The Broken Mystery and the Deus Obliviscitus
Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective story with “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” but was already bored with the genre a year later, when he published its sequel, “The…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #31: Dogma and Doctrine
This week’s theme music is “An Ecumenical Matter” by Loose Fur, from Born Again in the USA. I like instrumental themes because I don’t have to slice and dice. The…
They's Justice, and then they's Justice: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 31 October 2010
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 31 October 2010 (23rd Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 and Psalm 119:137-144 •Isaiah 1:10-18 and Psalm 32:1-7 •2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12 •Luke 19:1-10 I…
The Links We Carry
On Joel Marks’s conversion to “desirism” How the recent suicides have changed Evangelicals’ treatment of homosexuals. Jeremy Beer (who has a great name) calls for fresh scholarship on the taxonomy…
Economic Reality and Gospel Proclamation: A Response to "The Just One Challenge"
“The Just One Challenge” from The Christian Standard Perhaps this little essay will not sustain the interest of any but those who are involved with the Stone-Campbell tradition, those congregations…