C.S. Lewis in Church: An Episode 54 Followup
In the anthology of C.S. Lewis’s writings published with the title God in the Dock, we find this interesting tidbit, which may be something of an answer to my speculative…
Postliberal and Progressive: A Primer from a Postliberal English Teacher
Lately a number of conversations around the God-bl0g-o-sphere have caught my attention, and all of them seem to take their impetus from the notion that theologians in the twenty-first century…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #54: Brains in the Body
General Introduction – Facebook feedback – The podcast gains sentience – The return of CWC – Homebrewed Christianity A Practical Topic – Where do intellectuals fit into a local congregation?…
How Should We Then Live?: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 4 September 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 4 September 2011 (12th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 12:1-14 and Psalm 149 • Ezekiel 33:7-11 and Psalm 119:33-40 • Romans 13:8-14 • Matthew 18:15-20 That I…
How Should We Then Link?
The Moviegoer turns fifty. The decline and fall of the Borders Empire. Resources for teaching introductory philosophy (Gilmour is so going to use the Gadfly Experiment next time he teaches…
Programming as a Liberal Art: A Review of Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age by Douglas Rushkoff 154 pp. Soft Skull Press. $14.95 To explain how I came across this book, I have to…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #53: Welcome Back
General Introduction – Allergic to Kansas – The Land of the Ice and Snow – Comments on the blog and elsewhere – The Conservative Reformed Mafia The History of the…
History, Prophecy, Mystery, Name: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 28 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 28 August 2011 (Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 3:1-15 and Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b • Jeremiah 15:15-21 and Psalm 26:1-8 • Romans 12:9-21 • Matthew 16:21-28…
Negative Dia-link-tics
The art exhibit that marks… wait for it… the end of postmodernism (let’s see if this draws out the Emergent crowd…) James K.A. Smith on the problems with contemporary academic…
Feminism, Positivism, and Which One Excludes
“Why Be Religious?” at Feministe Recently Victoria (who’s married to one of the better Christian Humanists) sent me the link above, noting that reading the post and the following…
The perfect age…
Happy Birthday to CHP guest host and little brother Ryan Gilmour today! He’s reached the age that Thomas Aquinas regarded as perfect.
One Reality, Not Two: A Reflection on the Lectionary Readings for 21 August 2011
Revised Common Lectionary Page for 21 August 2011 (Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A) Exodus 1:8-2:10 and Psalm 124 • Isaiah 51:1-6 and Psalm 138 • Romans 12:1-8 • Matthew 16:13-20 I hate to admit it, but as much as…
Linkle, Linkle, Little Star
The utter moral bankruptcy of national academic conferences Some tidbits from Barth on relationships between Scripture and theology Some facile, relativistic tidbits on pop music in the twenty-first century Some…
The Ant and the River: Horace on Virtue and Natural Law
There’s a game Christian intellectuals sometimes play regarding ancient philosophers. “If he had lived 400 years later,” the question goes, “would Plato (or Aristotle, or Euripides, or Cicero, or Confucius,…
So I finally read Francis Schaeffer…
I don’t keep count of how many times people recommend books to me (I never have the presence of mind to start the count on the first instance, and three…