Dobson gets feisty with Obama’s interpretation of scripture and lost of people blogged on it and I would have but some many of these were good!

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Here is the first episode of this discussion, so if you didn’t listen last week check it out first.  I am at the beach with my youth group so finding new links to put on the podcast didn’t happen.  So here are the ones from last week.  I will say two of my adult sponsors [...]

 

 Homebrewed Christianity: Suffering and Meaning with Prof. Bob Mesle (pt.2) [42:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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“Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.   Any particular community life touches only part of the nature of each civilized  man.  If the man is wholly subordinated to the common life, he is dwarfed…Communities lack the intricacies of human nature…War can protect: it cannot create.“

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God is not limited to the possibilities of each present determined by the past, but given the ontological priority of the future, the present opens towards the future which has its existence in God.  The possibilities for God are then expanded beyond those that inhere in a given present, for God is the definitive future.  [...]

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Both of these quotes were on the same page in the book and both I think are funny (and dead on).
Whitehead was asked about the decline of faith in American Liberal to which he said, “It turned to social service.”
Whitehead was asked if medical doctors see all of us and he responded, “No! Taken as [...]

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The previous discussion of creation Pannenberg’s philosophical argument for the ontological priority of the future was examined, but after the discussion of eschatology it is necessary to return to the topic of divine action and examine his affirmation of the omnipotence of God.  For Pannenberg, the examination of divine action cannot be separated from either [...]

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This week Dr. Bob Mesle is our guest for part one of a two part discussion of Suffering and Meaning.  Dr. Mesle is professor of Philosophy and Religion at Graceland University and author of a number of books including my favorite introduction to Process Theology and also the Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.  You can [...]

 

 Homebrewed Christianity: Suffering and Meaning with Prof. Bob Mesle [37:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Pete Rollins gives a capitalist critique of Batman, is he a good guy or bad guy?
God is the biggest cause of death in the Bible?
Dr. Jonas (my undergrad church history prof) gives commentary on the SBC hoopla (Greg Horton’s take)
Ryan Sharp of the Cobalt Season is on Nick & Josh’s podcast and like [...]

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“The synoptic gospels are the thinking of vigorous people: the disciples pluck corn on the sabbath, and are chidden by the mayor and the village council.  They reply brusquely”: (he roughened his voice to asperity) “‘What does it matter?‘ But the official religion which begins at about the second century, that is, the Catholic theology, [...]

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Whitehead says, “There is no tolerance unless there is something to tolerate, and that, in practice, is likely to mean something in which most people would consider intolerable.”
A dinner guest responds by asking, “Do you suppose that the persecuting temper is peculiar to religions, or only to some religions?”
Whitehead responds by saying, “Religion carries two [...]

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