For Jordan Monge For some time now I have wanted to do a second theological analysis of a piece of popular music; the religious thought of Top 40 musicians is so deep, and so little appreciated, that it seems incumbent on me to expose its hidden treasures to the public gaze. Today, I would like t
11.25.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz
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Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her." ... Now it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter and brought her back to Jacob, and he went in to her. And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maid. So it came to p
07.23.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
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When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire...Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices
07.2.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
1 CommentUniformitarianism versus Catastrophism: a centuries-old controversy from Jacintha Tagal on Vimeo. This video doesn't actually explicitly endorse any particular side, but it was too cool not to share. Also, my friend Jacintha made it! Also note that my biologist friend says that modern theori
05.8.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang
1 CommentTo 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
2 CommentsLast week I summarized the argument of John Walton's The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate and promised to explain exactly what I take to be problematic about it. This week, I fulfill my promise. I would like to begin by playing with an intuition that I think m
08.24.2009| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
3 CommentsI can't imagine a more beautiful place to write than where I'm currently sitting, in the lounge of Grand Teton National Park's Jackson Lake Lodge. The view from here steals your breath away, especially at sunset when the mountains glow from behind with a golden halo and the sky turns a profound ro
08.20.2009| The Fish Tank | Cameron D. Kirk-Giannini
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