During this, the 40-day Lenten period leading up to Easter, the inevitable question comes to mind: why did Jesus—said to be the Son of God—suffer and die on a cross? As.a child, theologian and Methodist minister Rebecca Ann Parker learned that God sacrificed his beloved child for the sake of humanity. Influenced by this teaching, [...]
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#56 Ode to the “Little Way”
Posted in Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Religious Philosophy, Spiritual Exercises, Spirituality, tagged Catholic Church, Monica Furlong, Reinhold Niebuhr, Saint Therese, serenity prayer, the "Little Way", tuberculosis on December 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Powerless and powerful? At the same time? You’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer and told you have two months to live. Powerless, right? The message of Reinhold Niebuhr’s serenity prayer is familiar: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know [...]
#54 Wrong beliefs about beliefs
Posted in God, Religion, Religious Philosophy, Theology, tagged GLBT, inter-religious dialogue, Peter Laarman, Religious Dispatches on September 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
A popular belief among today’s gentle partisans of inter-religious dialogue is that sharing of individual journeys succeeds where other approaches fail. If only this were the case. Except that our beliefs shape our reaction to the experiences of others. The sharing of individual journeys sounds promising, at first glance. What counts as success? —More humane [...]
#53 Grace to the rescue
Posted in God, Philosophy of Religion, Religious Philosophy, Theology, tagged Church of the Larger Fellowship, Henry Nelson Wieman, James Luther Adams, Jerome Stone, theological grace, UU World on September 8, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Summer’s nearly over and the routines of autumn are once again settling over the ever-shorter and cooler days. Looking for something to read through the coming bevy of chilly nights? The Naked Theologian, aka moi, has a new column in the Fall issue of the UU World magazine. To read it, click on this link: “Grace [...]
#52 Prophecies of the end of belief
Posted in God, Religion, Religious Philosophy, Theology, tagged death of God, Johnny Cash, prophecies of godlessness, Puritans, Slavika Jakelic on June 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Almost as soon as the Puritans set foot in Massachusetts Bay, they began to sound the alarm that godlessness was at hand. Prophecies of God’s impending demise are as old as the history of European settlements in the United States. Indeed, the recent book, Prophecies of Godlessness, edited by Charles Mathewes and Christopher McKnight Nichols, [...]
#48 Better than milk: Got God
Posted in God, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Religious Philosophy, Theology, tagged God, UU World on February 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Friends, Long time no read! Her Nakedness has been extra-busy these last few months with pre-dissertation requirements, writing academic papers, and attending conferences. Finally (finally!), full-time research and dissertation-writing are about to begin–with time set aside for blogging. Look for a “real” post before week’s end. But you don’t have to wait to read some [...]
#47 Men, please get as mad as hell!
Posted in Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Religious Philosophy, Theological Ethics, Theology, tagged Afghanistan, forward-thinking men, Hamid Karzai, Indonesia, Iran, Nematullah Shahrani, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam, violence against women on August 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When women have gotten the right to vote or to divorce or to inherit property or to have legal protection from rape, it’s because men have agreed to change the law of the land. A few forward-thinking women demanded those rights—some nicely, some not so nicely. Allied to their cause was some of the menfolk, [...]
#40 What do Jesus and Reagan have in common?
Posted in God, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Religious Philosophy, tagged Albert Schweitzer, crackpot economics, David Friedrich Strauss, Gospels, Jesus, life-of-Jesus theology, Ronald Reagan on November 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
According to Jonathan Chait, the author of The Big Con: Crackpot Economics and the Fleecing of America, “In the conservative mind, the Ronald Reagan presidency lives on in the golden shimmering past, an ideal that Reagan’s successors must strive to approach but can never fully live up to, like the teachings of Christ.” Although Reagan [...]
#36 The luminous gospel of transcendental universalism
Posted in God, Religion, Religious Philosophy, Theology, tagged Emersonian transcendentalism, Forrest Church, universalism on October 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Reverend Forrest Church died of esophageal cancer last week at the much-too-young age of 61. His life story continues to speak to us. Church began his ministerial career preaching the gospel of rational belief—the kind of gospel that limits itself to teachings the human mind can comprehend and experience can confirm. He surveyed the [...]
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