A loving Pope, as long as you’re not gay

Time magazine’s, Jeff Israely notes: After acquiring a reputation as an aggressive, doctrine-enforcing Cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI has surprised many with his gentle manner and his writings on Christian love. Not so fast… Benedict’s envoy to the...

Zen Mormans?

In today’s MormonTimes, we learn of two BYU students who consider themselves Zen Mormons. “They have things to teach us,” [Zach] Elison said. “Everything I love about Buddhism I find in my own religion, they just emphasize it...

The Trap of This or That

David Marshall writes an intelligent response to one of my recent posts that I thought I’d share. To my assertion that the Source of all agency might be a more accurate, albeit partial, representation of what we often call God, he says: I think this is debatable...

Fanning Fundamentalist Flames

The International Herald Tribune offers an interesting piece on the implications of this past week’s attacks. The major theme shouldn’t surprise any one. The terrorists’ barely concealed ties to Pakistan suggest that a key objective of the Mumbai...

Over at Salon, Steve Paulson writes about biologist Stuart Kauffman’s new approach to God in his recent book, “Reinventing the Sacred”. [Kauffman] seeks to formulate a new scientific worldview and, in the process, reclaim God for nonbelievers....

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