Rush Limbaugh got into a little hot water with political liberals when he said: "I hope Obama fails" ( source ) So then it should be no surprise that I get into trouble with theological liberals when I make it clear that I hope the heresy of hyperpreterism and those who promote it fail. ( source ) The liberal religionist that got upset was a man named Phil Naessens. I then pointed out how unchristian it was to NOT desire the failure for those things and people who oppose God, this was in...Read Full Story
Have you ever seen one of our military walking past you and wanted to convey to them your thanks, but weren’t sure how or it felt awkward?
Recently, a gentleman from Seattle created a gesture which could be used and has started a movement to get the word out.
Please everybody take just a moment to watch…. The Gratitude Campaign; ……and then forward it to your friends! THEN START USING THE SIGN.Read Full Story
Last night we did the podcast, and for those who missed the show is welcome to listen to the show at this Link-Click Here.
The podcast was originally announced here on my Blog on 8 Apr 2009 .
Dr. Stephen Vantassel, University of Nebraska at Lincoln- Internet Center For Wildlife Damage Management
Dominion Over Wildlife?
Interested in what the bible shares about our dominion over animals and wildlife?
An Environmental-Theology of Human-Wildlife Relations is available from Wipf...Read Full Story
Dominion Over Wildlife
Dr. Stephen Vantassel, University of Nebraska at Lincoln-Internet Center For Wildlife Damage Management
This Thursday, author, friend and fellow Nuisance wildlife control operator, Stephen Vantassel, the and Webmaster for The Internet Center Wildlife Damage Management Center http://icwdm.org will be joining us for an evening discussing his new book he wrote.
All are invited to join in this Thursday evening, Time: 04/09/2009 08:00 PM EDT. You can either call in 1...Read Full Story
You have seen it before, gangs of people on a theological website or forum tag-teaming against 1 or 2 people. The theological thugs typically either are advocating some heresy (like hyperpreterism i ) or they found some valid pet-doctrine that they have latched on to & think it is their mission to brow-beat everyone else with it (like Calvinism i ).
How it typically happens is that one lone thug is interacting with a person & the person is giving such powerful arguments that the lone thug...Read Full Story
The children of Israel are stiff-necked and hard-hearted. God sends serpents to bite them. Then he says the only way to be healed is to look at a serpent held up on a pole. This is kind of like reading theology. When I read theology, I assume two things and I assume these same two things regardless of the author. I read Blake Ostler the same way I read Augustine or Dogen. I assume that the author is a sinner and that their theology is...
I may have been the last person in the world to stumble upon this. But maybe there are still a few people out there who share my ignorance. The French site Persée is an open access depository for a huge number of digitized French-language scholarly journals. Thomistica.net readers may be particularly interested to know that this includes all the issues between 1894 and 2001 of the Revue Philosophique de Louvain. You may know that the Revue...
The Fr. James M. Forker Professorship of Catholic Social Teaching and the College of Liberal Arts at Mount St. Mary’s University is sponsoring a new journal, Journal of Moral Theology. JMT’s editor is David McCarthy, who holds the above mentioned professorship. The first issue, which is now out, has as its theme: “Formative Figures of Contemporary American Catholic Moral Theology.” You can find JMT’s website here. The first issue is available...
To most of us, theology is at best an esoteric, remote discipline, and at worst a questionable intellectual pursuit. And while Schools of theology and seminaries are still a very active part of universities and colleges around the world, theology today has ...
It's so much fun, in a twisted sort of way, when politicians get into the business of theology and start drawing conclusions -- especially when those conclusions aren't up to them but are, rather, the preogative of God. Earlier this...
The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee is running late, prepping for an MSNBC interview while she brushes her tangled mass of blonde curls in the bathroom, a top adviser hovering behind her. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,... more ››
In a hat trick of sorts for the Boston College Theology department, three of its educators published work in the inaugural issue of The Journal of Moral Theology. Editors of The Journal of Moral Theology invited each professor to write for the ...
The Christian CenturyThe new black theologyThe Christian CenturyIn the 19th and 20th centuries a veritable industry emerged to supply the cosmetic techniques (from methods for hair straightening to skin lighteners to plastic surgery) for this passage into whiteness. Carter and Jennings undercut racism by ...
Jefferson Bethke’s poem, “Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus,” has gone “viral,” as they say, and with all youtube videos come comments, both positive and negative, hopeful and discouraging. In reading the comments and blogs and listening to the poem written by Jefferson again and again, I believe there is a gulf between the artist and the theologian. There are limits to both perspectives but, because of social media and its vast influence...
Onislam.netGermany Teaches Islamic TheologyOnislam.netTUEBINGEN, Germany – Tuebingen University in Germany has opened the country's first department of Islamic theology to educate a new generation of enlightened Muslim preachers, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) reported on Monday, January 16. ...Germany opens first university department of Islamic theologyMonsters and Critics.comall 4 news articles »