Monthly Archives: May 2012

We Need More of This!

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

BioLogos has begun a series of posts, Southern Baptist Voices, exploring various objections to evolutionary creation as God’s method of creation. The series features posts by several Southern Baptist scholars and responses by scholars and scientists affiliated with BioLogos who … Continue reading →

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Uncertainty, Openness, and the Action of God

Posted on May 29, 2012 by

Part two of the new book God and the Cosmos: Divine Activity in Space, Time and History by Harry Lee Poe and Jimmy H. Davis asks questions about the way God interacts with the world. They begin with a brief … Continue reading →

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Do We Have an Extrovert Ideal?

Posted on May 24, 2012 by

Tuesday morning Scot linked an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education Screening Out Introverts by William Pannapacker. The article is a comment on a new book by Susan Cain Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t … Continue reading →

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Providential Evolution

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

The current issue of Books and Culture contains a review of The Language of Science and Faith by Karl Giberson and Francis S. Collins provided by Alvin Plantinga, the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University Notre … Continue reading →

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Beyond the God of the Gaps

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

Part One of the new book by Harry Lee Poe and Jimmy H. Davis God and the Cosmos: Divine Activity in Space, Time and History asks questions about the way humans have conceived of God and the way this impacts … Continue reading →

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The Death of Poetry?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

I was recently sent a copy of the new book by Harry Lee Poe and Jimmy H. Davis God and the Cosmos: Divine Activity in Space, Time and History. Harry Lee Poe (Ph.D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Charles … Continue reading →

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Evolution is a Lousy Story

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

There is an interesting post by Tom Bartlett, Is Evolution a Lousy Story?, on the blog at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Bartlett notes that more than half of Americans doubt that evolution describes the origin of species and he … Continue reading →

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Half the Sky and the Power of Story

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

I expect this post to be one of my least well-read posts of the year. That alone is an indictment of our church today – and of its leadership, as most of the people who read Jesus Creed are leaders … Continue reading →

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(Paradigm) Shift Happens

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

In 1962 Thomas S. Kuhn published a book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Few academic books become classics – must reads in a field, much less more broadly. Kuhn’s book has achieved that status – some 1.4 million copies sold … Continue reading →

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Abraham and Israel for Normal People

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

Peter Enns and Jared Byas have a new e-book Genesis for Normal People designed to introduce Christians who have little if any formal training in biblical studies to the ancient voice of Genesis and to the purpose and focus of … Continue reading →

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