Alright, the fact that there's a sources iv, means I'm not calculating well enough or too much info. I feel like I'm an undergraduate again with those ambiguous projects utterly beyond the actual skill necessary to execute. That's what this series is. Luckily it's a blog and there's no grade attached. (What the hell do I care about grades again?). Anyways, the theme of this post is your theological blogs. Big shout out to Faulk and Huff for their suggestions, etc. There's a lot here so I'm gonna quickly go through them.
Ligonier Blog - Jason commented this in an earlier post. It's Ligonier Ministries blog and I know a few of you readers, B included, like them.
The BioLogos Foundation Channel This is more for Matt than you, as these guys espouse a Theistic Evolutionary viewpoint. This is not an RSS feed but a youtube subscription. The forum does have an RSS feed, but that contains a lot more junk than just their "Conversations" vid, which are 5 minute spills by various folks.
I recently started subscribing to Son of Hamas. Quickly Mosab Hassan Yousef was a part of Hamas turned Christian spy.
Helm's Deep - doesn't the little LOTR freak in you just love that title? Paul Helm is basically an Christian philosophy professor Huff turned me onto.
Credenda/Agenda - This mag is put out by Canon Press and has some big names from the Reformed tradition in it.
CanonWired - Also Canon Press, but this is exclusively short "Question of the Day" videos to Douglas Wilson.
Rachel Held Evans - In her words:
Charles Darwin said that the survival or extinction of an organism is determined by its ability to adapt to its environment. I think faith operates the same way. Changes in the environment--be they cultural or experiential—test the resilience of our faith and challenge us to rethink our most fundamental beliefs and values.
That’s what this blog is about. It's about how faith survives by continually changing. Its purpose is to reassess the fundamental elements of Christianity in the context of a postmodern environment…my insights coming from a small town famous for its fundamentalism, yours coming from wherever you may be.
I believe that knowing the answers isn't as important as asking the questions, and that following Jesus Christ is a lot less about being right and a lot more about, well, surviving. So even if that's all you're doing right now, feel free to join the conversation.
fors clavigera - James K.A. Smith has a few blogs, but this is the one I'd like you to get. He's a philosophy professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids. Of all the students to come from Christian colleges, probably this institution and Gutenberg in Eugene, Oregon, are the only ones I actually respect. He also has a blog where he just quotes passages from books he's reading that's kinda cool.
Blog and Mablog - Douglas Wilson's blog. I don't actually like it, and go on and off subscribing to it. Kev talked me back into it this last time.
Living Spirituality - Greg Laughery's blog. He's the director of the Swiss L'Abri.
Narrative and Ontology - This is probably one of the most popular theology blogs out there. In Philip Sumpter's words:
OLD TESTAMENT THEOLOGY: The "OT" bit references historical, literary, cultural issues (the particulars), the "theology" bit references the Big Picture (and why it matters). These two poles are expressed in the title. This blog concerns everything in between.
The Earth is Made of Atoms and Ideas - They've stopped posting on this as much, but it has some smart dudes from the old Derek Webb board that talk about anything.
The Politics of the Cross Resurrected - This guy is crazy, which is why I love him. We're symmetrically opposites.
The Strasbourg Inn - Done by Jacob Young, an x-Derek Webb board member.
In Hoc Signo - Kev could tell you more about this guy. DP Cassidy is Reformed minister in Texas.
Thinking through Christianity - a fun site. A friend of a friend's site. He's a medieval scholar and culturally engaged Christian. One of my favs.
cramer comments - a pacifist instructor of either theology or philosophy.
Faith and Theology - This is a forum that speaks to a large variety of theological interests. It's also one of the most popular theology blogs out there. I strongly recommend you give it a shot at least for a while.
speak what we feel: not what we ought to say - Put out by my friend Renea.
The Immanent Frame: Secularism, religion, and the public square - This is a fascinating forum. The first series they did was called, "a Secular Age" and was about Charles Taylor's book. Taylor fyi is probably the thinker I most wanna get into. Beyond him, it has some notable names including James KA Smith (Calvin Uni Prof.), Mark Lilla, others.
Since its inception in the fall of 2007, The Immanent Frame has played host to a variety of discussions, from critical exchanges on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im’s Islam and the Secular State to extensive discussions of the complex role of religion in the public sphere, U.S. politics, cognitive science, higher education, international affairs and global politics, debates about sexuality and marriage, and political and intellectual criticism.Anyways, even if you don't like it, Matt might.
Most recently, The Immanent Frame has hosted discussion series on religious freedom and U.S. foreign policy, critiques and revisions of the concept of civil religion and its role in contemporary public life, and the emergence of a “strong program” in the sociology of religion, as well as interviews and critical colloquies on important recent texts, including Webb Keane’s Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter, Stefanos Geroulanos’s An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought, and Courtney Bender’s The New Metaphysicals: Spirituality and the American Religious Imagination.
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