Everyone agrees that shame is a terrible feeling. So isn’t it logical that we should avoid feeling shame? And doesn’t that also mean that it’s bad to make other people feel shame? Well, maybe not! In fact, in his new book Defending Shame, Te-Li Lau shows not only that shame is a vital part of…
Download this Episode This is another episode from Theology Beer Camp, hosted by Homebrewed Christianity and The Hatchery. In this one, Nathan Gilmour from The Christian Humanist chats with Todd Littleton from Patheological, Eric Hall, Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Carroll College, and (briefly) Jeffrey Carter, Christian Humanist superfan, in the Catalina Coffee…
Download or Stream this Episode Ontic Ethics at Lexington Books What does it mean to exist as a human being? Are some people more human than others by virtue of their capabilities? Because of their standing within this family rather than that? On account of their chosenness by this or that god? Such questions trouble philosophers…
Series Index Principles of Christian Theology by John Macquarrie John Macquarrie’s Principles of Christian Theology does not have a conclusion in any formal sense; instead he ends the book with an exploration of Christian ethics in the existentialist framework that he’s set up through the first twenty chapters. Here even more than before Macquarrie’s commitment…
After the New Atheist Debate By Phil Ryan 196 pp. University of Toronto Press $22.95. Of all the books written regarding the “New Atheist” (hereafter, NA) phenomenon, this the first that I’ve seen that has attempted to analyze it from a philosophical, sociological, and ethical perspective, while simultaneously refusing to take sides in what has often been…
So January started to wrap up, and I got the notification: Gus Cole-Kroll, podcast listener and Christian Humanist friend, had called on me, along with Tripp Fuller of Homebrewed Christianity and Mark Van Steenwyk (whom I don’t know but nonetheless seems like a good fellow to know), to offer some comments on Stan Hauerwas’s book…
It is not reasonable to expect everyone to share the same religious views, and since it can be difficult to see God’s hand in our violent and hate-filled universe, I don’t fault anyone for not believing in God. (My own reasons for believing in God are complicated, probably unsatisfying to people who live outside of…