Tag Archives: theology
Buechner’s Bad News
Frederick Buechner was assigned to me in a college class years back, and admittedly I let his book sit on my shelf, mostly because I didn’t like the professor who assigned it and assumed it would be yet another book that would propagate the ideas he held that I found so insulting. I was very […]
To All Who are Affected by Abortion (or, An Open Letter to Humanity)
The abortion debate is tired. Most have heard the arguments countless times, and it has become such a political hot button that few people really approach the conversation with love and respect for those with whom they engage. We seem to forget we are talking to people about people. I’d like to take a step back […]
The Center of Ethics
Before I continue in this series of ethics I’d like to pause and revisit the cornerstone on which all Christian ethics stand. I cannot add to these wonderful words from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, so I will let them speak for themselves: The origin and the essence of all Christian life are comprised in the one process […]
Sex, Lies and Design
Sex is important. But not at all in the way popular culture portrays it. Because sex isn’t ultimately about us. Sex isn’t just about love (and certainly not how society defines it) procreation or personal pleasure, though those are wonderful elements of it, they are not the purpose of sex, they are not what make […]
The Controversy of Design
My deadline to begin this series has arrived. I originally began hoping to address feminism and abortion, and as I have delved into these topics I have found that they fit into a much larger philosophy that I hope to address as well. My goal is to post bi-weekly addressing the following topics: Sexuality Marriage […]
Oceans Never Fill 