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Law and Policy

Law and Ethics at JC: Locke's Labor Theory

I have a post up on Jesus Creed about property rights and Locke’s labor theory. Check it out.

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Biblical Studies Science and Religion

NT Wright on Genesis 1-3

An excellent video from NT Wright on the way in which a first century Jewish reader likely would have “heard” the Genesis 1-3 stories.

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Science and Religion

Os Guiness on Why the Church Must Deal with Science: "Have No Fear!"

This is a great video from Os Guiness about the missional and praxiological importance of finding peace between Christian faith and the natural sciences.

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Spirituality

Psalm for Today

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me;
You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
And your right hand will save me.
The LORD will accomplish what concerns me;
Your lovinkindness, O LORD, is everlasting;
Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

— Ps. 138

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Historical Theology Law and Policy

Law at JC: Morality and Contracts

My post on Morality and the Law of Contract is up at Jesus Creed. Check it out.

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Early Christianity Historical Theology Theology

Paleo-Orthodoxy?

I have a post up on Jesus Creed about “The Problem with Paleo-Orthodoxy.” Check it out.

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Science and Religion

Science, Faith and Culture Wars

Os Guiness on how the North American culture wars have fueled the unnecessary rift between Christian faith and science. Excellent.

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Spirituality Theology

Adams on the Creed

Nicholas Adams, writing on the Creed in the Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics:

The Creed is a prayer that ends with ‘Amen.’ This is good news because it frees Christians from the prison of thinking it a mere bold declaration. . . . It is the poetry of lives, rather than the clarity of statements, that shows how tradition and reasoning are woven together in the Trinitarian, prayerful recitation of the Creed. Such lives, invited to a world we did not make, are made into signs. No philosophical system, and no brilliant theory of the relationship between tradition and reasoning, can replace the embodied poetry that living signs, saints, are called to be in the world. The Creed, as an uttered part of this embodiment, simultaneously proclamation and prayer, is part of the Eucharist, and that means it is not only about speech and talk; it is an occasion in which we are shown how to share food, and, in the breaking of bread, are given a foretaste of things to come, and taught how to transform the world.

Amen again.

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Law and Policy Theology

Law at the Jesus Creed: Legal Accommodation?

My next post on “Law” is up at Jesus Creed:  Mission, Accommodation, and the Rule of Law.  Check it out.

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