March 2009

An answer for the atheists

by Paul Munn 30 March 2009

We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books. Literature, not scripture, sustains [...]

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A conscientious objection

by Administrator 30 March 2009

I was walking alone along the road outside a monastery in England, thinking about where I was. AWOL in a foreign country. I’d gone on a two-week leave several months ago, but instead of driving back and reporting for duty on the aircraft carrier I had boarded a plane. It felt like the only thing [...]

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baby killer

by Paul Munn 28 March 2009

“Oh, beautiful.” The car slowed and he looked up from what he was reading. Traffic had stopped up ahead, and people were in the street. Protesters, from the look of it. “Just what we need,” continued the lieutenant colonel, who was driving. They both looked behind them, to see if they could get back to [...]

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From Faith to Common Sense Atheism

by Luke Muehlhauser 25 March 2009

Editor’s Note: What follows is the story of a friend of mine who journeyed from faith to atheism. If you would like to listen to an interview he, as a very sharp atheist had with me (Mark Van Steenwyk), go here.
I grew up in Cambridge, Minnesota – a town of 5,000 people and 22 Christian [...]

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Is Obama the Anti-Christ?

by Becky Garrison 24 March 2009

In an effort to get to the bottom of this ongoing debate to ascertain if Obama is indeed Lucifier’s lackey, I decided to go back and dig up Anton Szandor LaVey. Born April 11, 1930 of Georgian and Alsatian ancestry, LeVay founded the Church of Satan on April 30, 1966 Prior to his death [...]

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Remembering Romero and Resisting Abstraction

by Mark Van Steenwyk 24 March 2009

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
–Oscar Romero
Today we remember Oscar Romero, who was assassinated 29 [...]

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The Global Crisis and the Violation of Beauty

by Administrator 23 March 2009

“All the contemporary crises can be reduced to a crisis about the nature of beauty.” –John O’Donohue
For what does the human soul long? Sex? Power? Money? Beauty? In recent months the shroud of greed has been removed and the entire world has seen avarice with spiritual clarity. Unregulated markets run by individuals and groups whose [...]

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Authority, Scripture and Story

by JoshuaDbauIII 19 March 2009

It is my unyielding assurance that the scriptures assist in informing humanity regarding God. However, the scriptures are a kaleidoscopic element of the overall portrait of God, not the whole portrait of who God is, what God has done and what God is doing in history. To know God is an exercise in the science [...]

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The Watchmen: Pop Nihilism or Nietchze Meets the Fantastic Four

by Leo Hartshorn 18 March 2009

Yesterday afternoon my wife and I went to the movies to see Watchmen. My wife was repulsed by the violence of the movie. I was hoping that maybe by the end of the movie there might be some redeeming message behind the film’s graphic depiction of violence. There was none.
My quick summary of the film, [...]

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A Fresh Look at Jesus Christ: Invasion from Another Universe

by frankviola 17 March 2009

Imagine for a moment that a creature from another universe invades planet earth. This being is male, but he is profoundly different from us earthlings. He is neither Jew nor Gentile. He is altogether other.
He is a unique creation from a unique world. He is, if you please, a new species.
As this creature enters into [...]

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