Theopoetic

The Rev. Bill Reese is used to answering tricky questions about his religion. Students in his Christian theology classes at Viterbo University feel comfortable enough to ask prodding queries about his beliefs, but Reese doesn't shy away from controversy.  

A recent Australian court custody case in which the court decided that a young child should make the decision to be baptised when she was of more mature years as the father wished was consistent with Baptist theology says WellBeing Australia Chairman Mark Tronson a retired Baptist minister  

Occupy Nashville protesters on Monday wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Eric Watson to demand an apology for remarks he made last week about an incident on War Memorial Plaza. There wasn’t an immediate response, but over the weekend ...  

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...  

To be or not to be the science of theology at Russian institutes and universities? At a meeting with a group of spiritual leaders, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed to introduce this subject to their curriculums. However, the possibility of the doctrine of God appearing in the curriculums of higher educational establishments has already stirred controversy in Russian society. The introduction of theology in curriculums in secular...  

The academic year of the United Theological College opens with a Service of the Word and the annual college lecture on Monday, February 20. This year the worship is led by the Principal, Rev Assoc. Prof Clive Pearson, with the Moderator of the Uniting ...  

What role do apostasy narratives play in Mormon theological discourse? Actually, let me ask that question more clearly, since I’m after something pre- rather than de-scriptive: What role should apostasy narratives play in Mormon theological discourse? A long and venerable tradition has given such narratives theological pride of place, but I want to ask whether that tradition has not generally seen Mormon thinkers wandering in theologically...  

The average religious consumer does not get their theology from a library of theology texts. Very few religious folks even think out a half-way consistent theology. Many people just get their religion from the equivalent of various inspiring AM radio stations. Questions: Do/Did you have a thought-out theology? (see some theology choices here) Do/Did you [...]  

Rick Perlstein argues that common political enemies have united conservative Evangelicals and Catholics: Now we have a Supreme Court consisting of four justices sympathetic to the Christian right: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Antonin Scalia. All are Catholics,...  

Some say Unitarian Universalists have replaced theology with psychology. This may be true for some of us, some of the time. You could also argue that the poetry of writers like Rumi, Mary Oliver,Wendell Berry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Denise Levertov, or ...  

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 ››  

The English Honors Program and Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society, are pairing up for a lecture entitled "Teleology, American Literature and the Problem of Pain," today from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eric Link, guest speaker and ...  

Today's editorial addresses Senate Bill 89, the GOP-controlled Indiana General Assembly's latest foray into intellectual backwaters. Creationism is bad science. It has no place in Indiana's science classrooms. The editorial references the Clergy ...  

Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy tells Channel 4 News "every poet must follow their conscience" as the withdrawal of two poets overshadows this year's TS Eliot Prize for poetry.  

Posted Jan. 14, 2012, at 4:31 p.m. BRUNSWICK, Maine — Maine’s poet laureate will be offering free workshops to give high school students tips in their poetry writing.