Flotsam and jetsam (7/17)
- John Mark Reynolds discusses in a Washington Post forum whether all religions are the same. He argues that in religion, like in physics, small differences matter.
- A foundation has donated $400k to a California seminary (CDSP) to write liturgies for gay wedding ceremonies in Episcopal churches. This is interesting for at least two reasons. First, the Episcopal church has not officially recognized gay marriages yet (emphasis on yet). Second, I had not idea it cost $400k to write a liturgy.
- Kevin DeYoung offers a very interesting graph showing (colorfully) the change in religious affiliation from childhood to adulthood. It’s particularly interesting to see the transfers in affiliation from one group to another.
- The Vatican has caused a bit of an uproar (they’re good at that) over its decision to make the ordination of women a serious crime on par with pedophilia.
- Patheos has an interesting set of posts on whether there’s a widening political rift in evangelicalism. (HT)
- Christopher Benson has a nice post on Postmodernism (nice list of resources) and whether we should now be talking about a distinctively “Biola School” of philosophy that is characterized by “analytic philosophy, a revised foundationalist epistemology, a classical evidentialist apologetics (indeed, it tends to reduce philosophy to apologetics), and a biblicist notion of propositional revelation.”
Posted on July 17, 2010, in Misc and tagged Apologetics, Episcopal Church, Epistemology, evangelicalism, gay marriage, ordination of women, other religions, philosophy, postmodernism, religious affiliation, sex abuse scandal, women in ministry. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
scientia et sapientia 
If teaching doesn’t work out, I may pursue a career in liturgy writing. Also, that is a great graph!
I had the same thought about changing careers. I wonder if all liturgies are this expensive, or only ones involving practices that actually violate church policy?