http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:32:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Question I received today: "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?" Good question. ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/07/if-evil-why-god/ Last month I blogged on the revised and expanded second edition of my book “True for You, But Not for Me”, which was recently released. Well, this month’s blog may seem like déjà vu! Early last week the UPS man hand-delivered a box containing copies of my even more ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/07/contending-with-christianitys-critics-answering-new-atheists-and-other-objectors/ This is a picture of the "Cappidocian Bar" at the Credo House. We had lights installed over the bar. I worked on them all day today to get them just right. Look closely. What do the lights signify? (Hint: Think of Eastern paintings and something you might find in them) It is hard...I will ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/07/pop-quiz-what-does-this-signify/ For the past twelve months, I’ve been on sabbatical from my teaching duties at Dallas Seminary. The sabbatical officially comes to an end on June 30, but the work goes on. We photographed about 80,000 pages of text, went to ten different countries, and discovered almost forty manuscripts. We have ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/07/new-testament-manuscripts-the-beat-goes-on/ For those that don't know, I have been widowed almost 5 years, since August 2004. Due to the nature of the relationship with my late husband and his chronic illness for 5 years before he passed, it feels like I have been without a husband for much longer than ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/god-as-my-husband/ I was recently asked to participate in a group that is creating curriculum in the area of “spiritual formation.” I have never really written much on this or spoken to the subject, but my nerve endings are a bit sensitive when the subject is introduced. In other words, I can ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/why-i-dont-think-to-much-of-spiritual-formation/ Just think in a few weeks I will be saying that to the patrons of Credo House. Last call ... for coffee that is. For now though it is last call for the apologetics special we have been running. It ends this weekend! The Apologetics Program (Special Ends Friday... no Sunday!) ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/last-call/ It is not quite done, but close enough to post this. Click here to view the video on YouTube. With the opening of the Credo House, we have taken a considerable step in the life and history of our ministry. As well, with this comes great opportunity to join with us in ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/introducing-the-credo-house-of-theology/ We are looking at what is God? Not who is God? or what has God done? We are looking at what his essential nature must be in order to qualify for the title. One thing I am going to do throughout this series is something that many of you might ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/what-is-god-2-why-i-look-to-philosophy-and-say-you-should-too/ My very first book “True for You, But Not for Me”—the one with the purple cover—came out in 1998. The reason I wrote the book was that no one was really offering an accessible, practical step-by-step guide to commonly-heard relativistic and pluralistic slogans. Thankfully, the book found its ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/true-for-you/ I don't know about you, but over the last few years I have had some bad experiences with Christians in the business world. This may get me in hot water, but I have come to the point where I would rather do business with unbelievers than with believers. I have ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/doing-business-with-christians/ Not much, just that it is keeping me from writting any blogs as we are finishing things up. I don't think I have ever been so busy and so tired before. But we are having fun. We should pick up on the blog in the next couple of weeks. Oh, also, if ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/what-does-the-credo-house-have-to-do-with-the-blog/ I came across this article in Christianity Today on ending homelessness in 10 years.  I mused considering that for the past several years, this is the professional field I have been involved in.  In fact, in my position back in Rhode Island, I was responsible for managing one of the ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/where-we-live/ In this series of posts I am going to write about God. "Wow! That is revolutionary for a theology blog: thanks for being so specific, Michael!" Slow down, you are already wearing me out. We are going to talk about God, but I want to focus on something that I ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/what-is-god-1/ http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/credo-house-video-update/ Do any of you know where to get very large pictures, either in print or electronic of these two pictures? We are trying to have large sizes of them made for the Credo House and no matter what I do in Photoshop, I can't get them to look good blown ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/need-help/ Now open for business. Check out the grand opening special. http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/new-reclaiming-the-mind-ministries-online-store/ When I first started teaching the Bible about fifteen years ago, I was given a Sunday School class at my church. It was a "college and career" class. I was inexperienced in teaching and was very nervous every Sunday, but I had such a strong desire to teach I was ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/how-to-listen-in-sunday-school/ My wife, Kay, was born in the jungles of the Amazon in Peru, her parents were missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators where she lived on a compound with nearly 100 missionary families. Everything that was done there was somehow related to translation of the Bible into the ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/06/god-and-the-ordinary/ Albert Einstein once said "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing . . . so is a lot." I have been in discussions with a gentleman who reads this blog and, occasionally, will take one of my theology courses. The main topic of discussion is the necessity of theological discourse for ... http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2009/05/theology-avoidance-disorder/