Religion

We’ve just launched a Kickstarter fundraiser for our next film, a documentary called Profiling America. It will deal with racial and religious profiling and institutional racism in the US. If you have a few minutes, check out the Kickstarter page which will tell you a lot more about the film, and if you think this is...
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Denny Burk, Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Boyce College (of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), has published a review of my book, The Human Faces of God, in the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology. (For a previous engagement of mine with Burk, see here.) On his blog, his review is entitled, “Another Attempt To Discredit Inerrancy...
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Denny Burk has posted his review of my book, a review published by the Southern Baptist Journal of Theology. (Some of my readers may remember Denny Burk from this earlier post.) I’ll write a proper response to Burk’s “review” when I’m feeling a little better (I’m down with a bug). In the meantime, let’s...
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think...
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So the news has just broken that a Moroccan girl has committed suicide after being ordered by a judge to marry her rapist. Now before some self-righteous Christians begin mouthing off about how unenlightened Islamic culture is, let’s go to the source: “If a man meets a virgin who is not engaged, and forcibly...
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Marvin stood at the end of the bridge corridor. He was not in fact a particularly small robot. His silver body gleamed in the dusty sunbeams and shook with the continual barrage which the building was still undergoing. He did, however, look pitifully small as the gigantic black tank rolled to a halt in front...
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I recently referred to myself as a “postsecular atheist,” which I think might be fairly accurate if I knew what it meant. I’ve been wondering about that. Insisting that I’m technically a theological non-realist (or a metaphysical non-realist more generally) seems pointless since nobody knows what that is, either. But the problem with identifying...
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Matt Flannagan is on a crusade to prove that I’m an untrustworthy, incorrigible, incompetent, lying sack of shit, and that no one should like me. All he’s shown, however, is that he’s guilty of all the intellectual crimes of which he has accused me. (See here, here, here, and, most recently, here.) But it’s...
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Matt Flannagan has taken to gloating in the fact that in my last post I made a few open and happy concessions to his criticisms, while at the same time he refuses to acknowledge that the vast majority of his criticisms of me were not only uncharitable, but fundamentally wrong. Ignoring his own misrepresentations...
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Matt Flannagan continues to try to discredit me by avoiding all the substance and most salient points of my arguments and focusing on what he thinks are contradictions in my writing or misuses of scholarship. No concessions have been made yet, however, to all of the abuses of scholarship I pointed out in Copan’s...
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