Book Review: Beyond Opinion – Ravi Zacharias

It’s very rare that it takes me an extensive amount of time to get through a book.  However, Beyond Opinion from Ravi Zacharias has been one of those books. Beyond Opinion is a collection of apologetics essays, essentially, dealing with subjects ranging from Islam to Evil to engaging Youth to Postmodernism to the Trinity.  In other words,it’s a pretty extensive work.  Although a number of chapters...

Big Tent Reflection #2 – Doubt As A Part Of A Vibrant Faith

Being part of and Emergent Cohort, doubt and faith, for me, go together like peanut butter and jelly.  I happen to be one of those people who believe that it is downright impossible for humanity to get it all figured out.  Being created being, we are less than perfect, and to have it all figured out would imply having perfect knowledge. So, you can see the paradox. Rachel Held Evans, author of “Evolving...

Can Faith And Science Be Reconciled?

Richard Cizik, co-founder of the New Evangelical Partnership For The Common Good believes so.  In fact, one of the main goals of this new group is “to articulate a new form of engagement that doesn’t demonize science or scientists.” From Alan Leshner at HuffPo: Cizik will speak about faith and scientific understanding at the 2011 AAAS Annual Meeting in mid-February, in a symposium entitled...

Civility Project Calls It Quits – Cites Threats, Apathy

Lost in the noise and grandstanding over the tragedy in Tucson is something that I find to be very significant, given the debate over the last few days. Back in 2009, Mark Demoss, an evangelical and prominent Republican from Atlanta, became concerned over the tone and tenor of what was passing for political speech and decided to do something about it.  His vision became what was to be known as the “Civility...

Holding On To Grace In The Face Of Tragedy

There was a time when events like this weekend’s attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords would make me angry…angry to the point of near irrationality.  For a brief moment in time, I would have tossed aside my conscience, and my faith, and joined in the mob mentality in calling for people’s heads. However, something in the last few years has changed me.  My reaction to...