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Identity and Responsibility: The Irony of Self-Labeling

Sev­eral weeks ago Tony Jones launched a poll ask­ing his blog read­ers to pick a label to replace “pro­gres­sive.” In explain­ing why he sought a new label, Jones states, “…we need a label. Words shape us; words do things; words have power. It’s no mis­take that con­ser­v­a­tives have cap­tured the term ‘evan­gel­i­cal.’ They did that …

August 17, 2011 – 2:41 am | By Matt | Posted in Christianity, Philosophy | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (6)

Killing the Institution and the System

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series (False) Inclu­siv­ity

I recently had the oppor­tu­nity to engage in/facilitate a dis­cus­sion group about my pre­vi­ous thoughts on the topic of inclu­siv­ity. While you can read those thoughts in my ear­lier post, allow me to offer a brief sum­mary: I believe that to be inclu­sive means that one can­not, by def­i­n­i­tion, exclude. Such exclu­siv­ity in the name …

August 13, 2011 – 1:42 am | By Matt | Posted in Christianity, Philosophy, Religion | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (7)

Immigration and the early Israelites

  Note: This post does not cover ‘solu­tions’ to the immi­gra­tion issue; instead, it is an address, of sorts, to Chris­tians regard­ing (what I see as) the view the Pen­ta­teuch takes on being an alien (or immi­grant). This post is pri­mar­ily about the Bible, if that’s not your cup of tea, then this isn’t the …

June 14, 2011 – 3:53 am | By Matt | Posted in Christianity, Immigration, Politics, Religion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Brief Thoughts: Responding to Dawkins

“We have brains: it’s brains that do the think­ing, our brains are going to decay, that’ll be that. But when you say, “Is this it?” Well, how much more do you want? This is won­der­ful.”- Richard Dawkins I saw this Dawkins’ quote yes­ter­day (the quote is from a panel dis­cus­sion, video here). I wanted to agree …

May 26, 2011 – 5:54 pm | By Matt | Posted in Atheism, Christianity, Philosophy | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)