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Police Ban Bible in Christian Café?

Hat Tip to SteveK

September 27, 2011 – 12:15 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Religious Freedom, The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (10)

“When Good becomes Evil”

They say the homosexual “marriage” issue is a purely private matter that won’t affect anyone else’s life or marriage. Don’t believe it. One of the most eye-opening features of the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial – the trial where a few people in California are trying to redefine marriage for the entire nation to include homosexual …

December 7, 2010 – 4:56 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , | Comments (30)

The Worldview Church

I’d like to introduce you to the Worldview Church, an outstanding source for thinking about Christianity in relation to the world we live in. David Naugle’s “Christianity and Culture: Kingdom Living is a good place to start: From the beginning of the Church until the present, Christians of every stripe have wrestled with a most …

November 4, 2010 – 7:15 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Arts and Culture, Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments Off

“Claremont seminary reaches beyond Christianity – latimes.com”

In a bow to the growing diversity of America’s religious landscape, the Claremont School of Theology, a Christian institution with long ties to the Methodist Church, will add clerical training for Muslims and Jews to its curriculum this fall, to become, in a sense, the first truly multi-faith American seminary…. Eventually, Claremont hopes to add …

June 9, 2010 – 9:59 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Religions | Tagged | Comments (2)

ID and Thomism: Why the Debate?

I’m only partway through my reading of the long debate on theology and ID, but some patterns seem to be falling into place already. As I read it, the Thomists in the discussion (all of whom are far better philosophers than I) object to Intelligent Design because ID is mistaken regarding what life is in …

May 5, 2010 – 3:03 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (36)

Christ Before Christmas

We’re in the season of expectancy, preparing to celebrate the birth of Christ. There was a season of expectancy before his actual birth 2,000 years ago–expectancy both on earth, where prophecies of a coming Messiah were passionately studied and only partly understood, and also in heaven, where the eternal God was preparing to break in …

December 17, 2009 – 3:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Mary Midgley’s Moral System: Not The Answer I Was Looking For

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Mary Midgley and Ethics

In my previous posts on Mary Midgley’s view of morality, I noted my appreciation for her unwillingness to accept reductionist explanations (especially for human experience), and her nearly answering a lifelong question of mine: is there really no way to ground a solid sense of morality apart from God? At the end of each post …

March 24, 2009 – 6:00 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (37)

Twisted Logic on Atheism and Proposition 8

If I thought this was an isolated sentiment I wouldn’t pay it much attention. Unfortunately it’s not. “We can sympathize with gay people because they are a minority and we are a minority,” said anti-Prop. 8 rally organizer Doug Kalagian, 17, a senior who founded the school’s Freethinking Atheist and Agnostic Kinship student club. “Prop. …

November 2, 2008 – 5:55 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , | Comments (44)

The Resurrection: An Unlikely Ally

Daniel Dennett, one of the four most prominent “New Atheists,” is no proponent of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The hallucination theory to explain Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances is no longer held by many scholars. Nevertheless there are exceptions to this, including Gerd Lüdemann (detailed further here). In Consciousness Explained, however, Dennett says on page 7, …

August 26, 2008 – 8:10 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (13)