By Vorjack
This is a continuation of my review for Robert Kunzman’s Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling.
Getting Testy about Testing
For an atheist who’s only experience with Christian home-schooling is the movie Jesus Camp, this book may come as a surprise. Many of the families are open minded [...]
By Vorjack
My mother recently admitted to me that if she had it to do over again, I would have been home-schooled. This was a shock, since my mother recently retired after 40 years of being a middle school science teacher. My mother has resisted all attempts to get her to teach outside her [...]
by VorJack
There’s a story that comes down to us from ancient Rome, during the period in which Hannibal Barca was ravaging Italy. Legend has it that the Roman dictator Fabius Cunctator (”Fabius the Delayer”) built a number of temples to beseech the Gods for aid. These included a temple to what we would translate [...]
by Vorjack
I first became aware of Robert Jensen’s work when his essay about rejoining the Methodist Church appeared on Killing the Buddha. Jensen is basically an atheist and a naturalist, but he had been invited to speak before a Methodist congregation by a progressive preacher. Jensen was taken by the aesthetics and the [...]
by VorJack
I’m reading Robert Jensen’s work All My Bones Shake for an eventual review here, but I’d like to discuss one concept now, since I don’t think a full discussion would fit in the review.
A Relabeling of the Unknown
Pullquote: God is what we call all those things about the universe that we don’t or can’t [...]
by VorJack
It’s a truism that history is done to serve the interests of the present, so it’s not surprising that we look back on Charles Darwin as the major player in the faith vs. reason debate. However, in doing so we ignore the arguments that concerned Darwin himself most of all. In Darwin’s [...]
By Vorjack
Let’s start with a simple fact: the Bible did not fall from the sky in 1611. The book — or rather, books — were created over a period of time by different people with differing beliefs.
One of the goals of biblical scholarship is to figure out what these beliefs were.
Bart Ehrman’s new book, Jesus, [...]
This is a guest post by Josh Hauck-Whealton (aka Vorjack).
Have you ever had the experience of stumbling across an idea for the first time, then suddenly find the idea everywhere you look? This happened to me after I read Christine Wicker’s The Fall of the Evangelical Nation.
Wicker is an ex-evangelical, now a progressive Christian, [...]
Anthony D Jacques: I love how God saying “Thou Shalt Not Kill” comes off so Do as I say, not as I do. Christians are... Pray for Obama
Leah: These people came to my school and protested…. I can’t help wondering if maybe they are just a... The Most Hated Family in America
gmcfly: Someone needs to read Romans 13. Pray for Obama
Francesco Orsenigo: It’s scary. As much as I support total freedom of speech (for example, I don’t like laws against... Pray for Obama
Olaf: I agree, the US has no a president that they should be proud of. One with brains and that gets a lot of respect from the... The Stupid Virus
