Friends, I’m quite fortunate to receive the chance to present a paper at Oxford this coming week for the European Society of the Philosophy of Religion. I’m calling the paper The Christian Voice in American Civil Discourse: A Theological Guide Incommunicability, which is both long enough and pomo enough sounding to at least make me [...]

The all around enormity of what we as both a nation and world face right now is mind-boggling. If it’s not a debt crisis in some form, it’s an unprecedented environmental disaster (with a looming climate catastrophe on the horizon). I think the buildup of these contemporary and simultaneous disasters will test Democracies to their [...]

I wrote a blog a while back called “Is Mainline Leadership Killing the Church?’ In it, I recommended that it be made canon law that all Episcopal Bishops take communion from a child once a year, that this act may bring some humility to at least Episcopal leadership and remind them whom they serve. (To [...]

I just read an interesting post by Philip Clayton talking about ‘Big Tent’ Christianity. His question is whether there’s still room enough in the American tent for the two sides of Christian faith we find in the States…the liberal and the conservative…to sit with one another. I must admit, I am not personally as concerned [...]

I have a predicament.  I am a progressive Christian, but I am pretty sure that progressive Christianity as it’s usually interpreted opens up a deep and anguishing pain in my heart, head, and soul!  I think this is the case because I’ve read too much of the Bible and Barth lately, so maybe you all [...]

Since I finished my Quals, Tripp’s been bugging me to begin posting on 19th and 20th century philosophical-theology. I gotta be honest, here: I’m really tired of reading and writing that kind of stuff.  The truth of the matter is that I think Tripp just wants me to put my exams online so he doesn’t [...]

I haven’t been blogging for a bit, now; I’ve been working on passing my Qualifying Exams.   But I’m back for a while and will be presenting to you what are some hopefully thought-provoking posts!  I won’t explain this post too much, now, (I’ll save that for a follow up post), but it’s connected to [...]

I’ve been reading up a little on some of the debate over whether or not the emerging church is dying. That is, I just read over Brian LePort’s insightful blog which tends to argue alongside a few other persons that, in fact, the movement is dying.  However, as someone not particularly connected to this debate [...]

The Crazy Texan, Mr. Rick Roderick, has a great grasp of the development of ethics in the west.  If classical virtue ethics were concerned in developing persons with good character, modern ethics became concerned with quantification and instrumentalization. To understand what I’m talking about, you should listen to this whole series, namely, ‘Philosophy and Human [...]

With the Holiday season over, I am busily studying for my qualifying exams again.  As of now, I’m reading through Luther’s Greater Catechism. It’s a good work, and I always appreciate the vitriol with which Luther approaches any subject.  But there’s a section in this work that I, strangely, found especially refreshing. First things first, [...]