Archive for the 'Creation' Category
The Statesman was kind enough to run my article on God’s Promise of Renewal today. Check it out and interact with the comments. An excerpt:
Walking out into the backyard, I could see the Cape Cod peninsula on the horizon. The Boston skyline stood tall to my right, and the Atlantic waves crashed into the shore […]
The Roman Catholic church has added seven more “deadly” sins to the prior seven. Among the new deadlies are genetic engineering, social injustice that causes poverty, and excessive accumulation of wealth.
“You offend God not only by stealing, blaspheming or coveting your neighbour’s wife, but also by ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific […]
Do Christians Who Reproduce Contribute to Mass Condemnation?
Closed Published by jdodson March 5th, 2008 on Creation ProjectI recently responded to the following question/syllogism at the Boar’s Head Tavern:
1. The vast majority of people will not be saved, but rather damned.
2. The command to be fruitful and multiply is especially imperative upon believers and it is the believer’s duty to procreate.
3. Is it incumbent upon believers to populate the earth with people […]
One of my fondest seminary professors, Sean McDonough, posed this question in his classes on the Gospels: “Are the miracles really supernatural?” In answering this question he drew upon the insights of Jürgen Moltmann who asserts: “Jesus’ healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly ‘natural’ thing in a […]
A friend recently called my attention to Michael Dowd, an evangelist of “evolution theology,” Dowd is a former preacher who has left pastoral ministry to spread the gospel of evolution theology. His primary point is fine enough, marriage and science are not irreconcilable. In fact his scientific research and clear stance on the old age […]
Christianity, A Religion of Negatives
Closed Published by jdodson December 27th, 2007 on Creation ProjectChristianity, especially fundamentalist Christianity, is often cast as a religion of negatives. It is often quipped that Christians are known by what they are against, not what they are for. George Marsden has highlighted the particularly negative Christianity of fundamentalists by calling them “evangelicals who are angry about something.”
These negative and angry expressions of Christian […]
“Every good gift and perfect present is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or moving shadow.”
Thoughts? What is the Christian response? We are here to cultivate the creation project, and it is going somewhere. Without us, earth would be a mass of disordered life. Genesis tells […]
Looks like the Vatican is leading out in ecclesiastical environmentalism. This NYTimes article documents the Vatican’s attempt to justify its carbon output by planting trees in on the Tiza River in Hungary. The Vatican climate forest will allow the small city/country in Italy to be the first carbon-free state.
Will Evangelicals jump on board?!
Reinterpreting the Great Commission
Closed Published by jdodson September 13th, 2007 on Creation ProjectThe ubiquity of the Great Commission is rivaled by its interpretive poverty. Matthew 28:18-20—containing the command to make disciples of all nations—is frequently summoned to validate countless and sundry discipleship and evangelism programs, ideas and practices, very often ignoring the interpretive wealth beneath its surface. It’s as if we expect that planting the end of […]
Below is an excerpt from my journal, written while we were on vacation in San Francisco:
This trip is an active reflection of our desire for Owen and Ellie to know who loves them most and whom they should love most. Owen and Ellie (our children), as wonderful and delightful as they are, can not take […]