creativity in theology

On the Green Baggins blog there’s an interesting post on ‘creativity’ in theology.
“… As the church progressively nails down doctrines that are further and further away from the core salvific doctrines, more creativity in relating these nailed-down doctrines is possible. Forever looking at a particular doctrine from the standpoint of unsettled provisionality is debilitating to [...]

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ever learning

Something I heard the other day:
“Whatever knowledge you have that does not endear Christ to you is but science falsely so called.”
Or words to that effect.

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personal data is not state property

A wide-ranging speech by Henry Porter exhorts us to be alert and informed about the looming database state:
We used to think of this country as having innate respect for freedom and privacy, as though it was somehow part of the British DNA, an immutable geographic feature of these islands – like the Pennine Range.
But [...]

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a general omission

“There is a general omission in the saints of God, in their not giving the Holy Ghost the glory that is due to his person, and for his great work of salvation in us, insomuch that we have in our hearts almost lost this third person. We give daily in our thoughts, prayers, affections, and [...]

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intolerance

A couple of comments on the resignation of Prof Michael Reiss from the Royal Society (he was forced to step down after saying in a speech that creationism needs to be discussed in schools rather than being simply dismissed).
Paul Helm notes on the the response of one professor – ‘Creationism is based on faith and [...]

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amicable settlement in Google abortion case

Remember the controversial decision by Google to ban an advert that would have referred searchers to the Christian Institute for news and views on abortion. Google said at the time that their policy was to not to allow adverts that combined abortion and religion, and the Christian Institute took legal action against them for this [...]

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we can haz fonemez

Language Log reveals there’s a Facebook group devoted to phonology-related lolcats. If you get references to things like Northurn Kitteh Shift and a Manx saying oops they set their NoCoda constraint too high, this may be the group for you. (See also the Chomsky vs Pinker/Jackendoff recursion controversy immortalised at the end of this post.)

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in hibernation

Well, my viva is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. The person in charge of the administrative arrangements having a sense of humour, it has in fact been booked in Room 101. So I’m learning how to deal with feelings of impending major doom, since as someone else put it, although in admittedly a somewhat different situation, [...]

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