Let me preface these thoughts by saying that I came back to Christian faith in a college Christian community and have been shown intense love over the past few years. And so it is with an equal love that I hope to think about some problems in how campus Christian fellowships relate to other Christia
01.4.2010| The Fish Tank | Samir Paul
3 CommentsYesterday, free copies of a new edition of Darwin's groundbreaking On the Origin of Species were distributed at the entrances to Harvard Yard on Massachusetts Avenue. I was pleasantly surprised to receive the book (even though the text is available online), because it may be one of the most influ
11.20.2009| The Fish Tank | J. Joseph Porter
4 CommentsTo what extent should science inform our understanding of scripture? Always and not at all, if we are to believe the pronouncements of most contemporary Evangelical thinkers. I present as a starting point the following series of short excerpts from a systematic theology by John Feinberg, Profe
10.30.2009| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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"Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster." -Bobby Henderson, Pastafarian Prophet and Satirist Extraordinaire I admit that I used to be rather ta
08.3.2009| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
No Comments(N.B.: The term "fundamentalist" is almost always used pejoratively to connote particularly annoying or ignorant Christians. I do not mean to use it in this sense. Rather, when I speak of "fundamentalists," I am speaking of theologically conservative Christians who typically believe that the Bible i
07.24.2009| The Fish Tank | J. Joseph Porter
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A Christian Response to the Westboro Baptist Church's Visit to Harvard On March 20, 2009, members of the Westboro Baptist Church plan to stage a protest at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For several years, the Westboro Baptist Church's anti-homosexual and anti-America protest
03.13.2009| Online Exclusives | Editors
1 CommentOne of the distinctive features of popular American Christian eschatology is belief in a pretribulational rapture, "a Second Coming [of Christ]... known only to believers and resulting in their deliverance from earth,"[1] which will precede the "great tribulation" mentioned in the book of Matthew[2]
12.1.2008| Opinions, Volume 4, Issue 2 | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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