My friend Nick Fox is also doing a series on Dawkins at his blog. I am trying to read all 374 pages of The God Delusion and comment along the way; Nick is taking the easy way out and commenting on various interviews with Dawkins. (joking)
Posts from ‘May, 2007’
Seen and Heard (May 30, 2007)
| AUDIO | Erwin McManus – “Is Faith Nonsense?” CBC RADIO – The Enright Files – “A Celebration of Charles Taylor” about: Charles Taylor Mark Driscoll – not your typical Mother’s Day Sermon. | BLOGGING | A very useful list of blogging resources . Scot McKnight offers some advice about blogging. | THE REST | [...]
The God Delusion – Part 2
Teach Your Children Well Dawkins hypothesis of why someone like me is of the same religion as my parents involves what he calls “childhood indoctrination.” “If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam is false, knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born [...]
Is this the dawning of the age of Atheism?
***This post is part of a series on Richard Dawkins’ book “The God Delusion”.*** I should start by saying that I’m not that familiar with Atheism. Of course I’ve met many people who have no specific belief in God, but not many who believed specifically that there is no God. So as I walk through [...]
Scot McKinght on "What The Movements Fear"
Scot McKnight is a voice I have come to trust on matters relating to the emerging/emergent church movement. He has a talent for being part of the EC movement and remaining objective about its flaws. A regular feature of his blog (“Jesus Creed”) is “Letters to Emerging Christians” where he writes public responses to personal [...]
God For Weasels
I am a big Dilbert fan. Dilbert creator Scott Adams has a blog which is always, pretty much 98% of the time, hilarious. Today’s post “God for Weasels” is no exception. It starts: “One of the great things about being ignorant is that I often think my ideas are original. It’s a wonderful feeling. That’s [...]
November Afternoon – a poem
I’ve been going through my journals, looking for forgotten songs to take out and record for my next album. I’m into the fall of 2005 now and it was a particularly dark time for me. Indeed, some of the words I wrote then cannot be displayed anywhere other than where they are – on paper [...]
CS Lewis Quote
I am often puzzled at the willingness of Conservative Evangelicals to throw in a CS Lewis or GK Chesterton quote here and there. Chesterton was of course a Catholic convert and Lewis an Anglican who believed in some sort of purgatory after death. He also believed that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, when practiced in their [...]