The New England Journal of Medicine has published a paper titled “Religion, Conscience, and Controversial Clinical Practices”. They report;

Physicians who were male, those who were religious, and those who had personal objections to morally controversial clinical practices were less likely to report that doctors must disclose information about or refer patients for medical procedures to which the physician objected on moral grounds

Why am I not surprised? I had a conversation on this topic with the best freind, will post the conversation later.

Read some of the most important philosophical quotations. Purely for increasing your cool-nerd factor.

“Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity … at its height.” - Søren Kierkegaard

Ever wondered how to diffrentiate between Satire’s Ugly Sisters: Parody, Irony and Sarcasm? you must read this.

A Lesson from Bonhoeffer. How does Christ call us, today?

The Scriptures do not present us with a series of Christian types to be imitated according to choice: they preach to us in every situation the one Jesus Christ. To him alone must I listen. He is everywhere one and the same.

Read 10 Propositions on Certainty & Theology , pen your agreements and disagreements.

Theology does not trump Tragedy. Questions about miscarriage, addiction, and disease are not answered by theology. Theology that presumes to end pain with the satisfaction of sure answers and happy resolutions only compounds suffering. Maranatha is a desperate prayer, not a theological proposition.

Ten Questions On The Bible. Is your theology “inconsistent?, read the internet monks view.

Probably. First, if someone thinks their “consistency” captures God in a theological zoo, then have a nice day. Yahweh isn’t in captivity in anyone’s theological game preserve. Second, I am in the emerging corner when it comes to theology as a “package.” I am tired of being told that believing the Bible = accepting modernistic inerrancy = Five point Calvinism = Limited atonement = like all the same theologians = read all the same books = despise and ridicule all the same people = the whole culture war = whatever is next. I completely reject that mentality. Give me inconsistency, post-evangelicalism and the crew that sails all the seas.