Originally posted on WINTERY KNIGHT:
Evolution News talks about a new peer-reviewed science paper which re-caps the current origin of life situation: …the dominant biological paradigm — abiogenesis in a primordial soup. The latter idea was developed at a time when the earliest living cells were considered to be exceedingly simple structures that could subsequently evolve…

Originally posted on New Testament Scholarship Worldwide:
After completing the monographs Dialogue in the Book of Signs: A Polyvalent Analysis of John 1:19-12:50 [BINS 136; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2015] and Saint Thomas the Apostle: New Testament, Apocrypha, and Historical Traditions [Jewish and Christian Texts Series 25; New York/London: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2018], I was…

Originally posted on WINTERY KNIGHT:
One thing I’ve noticed in talking to atheists who grew up in Christian homes is that they often leave their Christian worldview behind because of a disappointment with God. For some reason, they get this idea that God is our cosmic butler. We can do whatever we want in order…

The Implications for ‘professors of faith’ Love is never sure apart from commitment, love is never sane apart from conscience, love is never safe apart from character, love is never stimulated apart from community, and love is never seized apart from courage. Commitment, conscience, character, community, and courage are the defining qualities that make up […]

it is #LOVEACTUALLY Introduction: In Part1 I of this article it addresses the notion of LOVE as being a Universal aspect of the person and character of the God of the Judeo/Christian Scriptures alone—that other notions of God[s] or belief in the nonexistence of the GOD in question cannot offer anything other than utilitarian notions […]

Originally posted on Science and Belief:
The blue marble, NASA Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there somewhere? These are questions that have long intrigued humankind. Answers have ranged from the optimistic postulate by Frank Drake forty years ago of more than 1,000 civilizations in our galaxy alone to the…

    Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? Interesting words from Rumi but it may be the case that ‘the truth’ needs to be spoken—because of love rather than in spite of it. Indeed, it may well be the case that ‘kindness’ (having a ‘friendly’,‘generous’ or ‘helpful’ attitude) may be that which […]