CharlieDean

Reductionism

From N.T. Wright… In a complicated, confused, and dangerous world, anything will serve as a guardrail for people blundering along in the dark. We oversimplify complex problems. We bundle up very different social and political issues into two packages, and with a sigh of relief – now at least we know who we are, where [...]

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The Spirit of Food: a review

If you know anything about me, you know that I love books and I love food. So a book about food and spirituality is Christmas morning for me! I don’t know how I came to read The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God. I think it was one of the [...]

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Contemporary Deism?

Deism is the belief that while God created the world, he set it up and then walked away. The analogy that is most often employed is that God was like a watchmaker, who built the watch and then walked away and left it to run. God is therefore largely irrelevant in our day-to-day experience. Skye [...]

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