Given the discussion last week about Adam, Noah, and the early hominids, I’d like to rerun this previous post from the book: Minds, Brains, Souls, and Gods: A Conversation of Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience by Malcolm Jeeves. It covered Chapters 9-12 in the book, the chapters being: Chapter 9: What Makes Us Human? The DevelopmentContinue reading “What Makes Us Human?”
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Another Look: Waiting to Live?
Another Look: Waiting to Live? (2017) Note from CM: I went back and re-read this post from 2017 and found I could relate today. It seems like, in the midst of this pandemic, we are waiting and itching to live again. But life keeps finding a way to break through — my little grandson runningContinue reading “Another Look: Waiting to Live?”
View from the (not so) front line
In a recent discussion, there was this nice note from regular commenter and friend Ted. Mike, I’ve been wondering how the crisis has affected you and your work as hospice chaplain. Will there be a blog post about it? A lot of your work must be in hospitals and nursing homes, which are now off-limitsContinue reading “View from the (not so) front line”
Who Inspires You?
Recently on Facebook quite a few friends have been posting a series of musical Albums that have either influenced their taste in music or have been significant to them. I declined to participate, although someday I may post a listing of my favourite ten Bruce Cockburn albums. There are after all 36 to chose from!Continue reading “Who Inspires You?”
Sunday with Michael Spencer: Complex Me
Sunday with Michael Spencer Complex Me (from “Icebergs, Onions and Why You’re Not As Simple As You Think” – 2008) I’m an iceberg, an onion, a mystery. I’m complex and rarely insightful into myself. Thousands of experiences co-exist in me at the same time. I’m a library of presuppositions and passively accepted versions of theContinue reading “Sunday with Michael Spencer: Complex Me”
“uncomforted as I have ever been”
Marilyn Hacker’s lament about a dreary April in upstate New York mirrors the experience of many in this stay-at-home world we inhabit these days. It’s going to be a rainy weekend here in Indiana if the weather forecast proves accurate, so this may just be the perfect poem for today. • • • April IntervalContinue reading ““uncomforted as I have ever been””
Your Idealistic Faux Rage Is Unbecoming
Your Idealistic Faux Rage Is Unbecoming There is a “we’re all in this together” rah rah spirit in this time of pandemic that can at times be an encouraging reminder and at other times a grating cliché. As some of our commenters have said in recent days, we may all be in this pandemic together,Continue reading “Your Idealistic Faux Rage Is Unbecoming”
Was Adam an Ardipithecus?
Was Adam an Ardipithecus? I’ve mentioned several times in posts about Glenn R. Morton. Morton was an ardent Young Earth Creationist, so ardent he switched professions from work as a geophysicist working for a seismic company and processing seismic data, and went into seismic interpretation where he would have to deal with more geologic data;Continue reading “Was Adam an Ardipithecus?”
Getting the Gospel Right: Interacting with a Post at Scot McKnight’s Blog
Getting the Gospel Right Interacting with Scot McKnight’s Post So, today, I encourage you to go to Scot McKnight’s blog, find Matthew Bates’s post and read it carefully: “Good News? Are T4G/TGC Leaders Starting To Change Their Gospel?”. Then, let’s use this and my comments below as the basis of discussion today. Here are aContinue reading “Getting the Gospel Right: Interacting with a Post at Scot McKnight’s Blog”
Damaris: From Conquest to Balance
From Conquest to Balance By Damaris Zehner The power people have developed as a result of the Industrial Revolution has changed our relationship to nature. We’ve freed ourselves from the limitations that nature imposes, or so it seems. We can be warm when it’s cold, dry when it’s wet, and well fed even in timesContinue reading “Damaris: From Conquest to Balance”
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