by Doug Hammack | Sep 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you’ve been a Christian for the last thirty years or so, you’ve heard the term “culture wars” a lot. It shows up a lot during elections, and when we clash over issues like the Ten Commandments at the courthouse, abortion, gay rights, school prayer, etc. When...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Updating our Christian Story for the Quantum era is demanding. As one committed to this challenging proposition, I can attest to how knotty and arduous it is. How to be faithful to our tradition, but also make sense of our faith in this new illusory, relative, and...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Updating our Christian Story for the Quantum era is demanding. As one committed to this challenging proposition, I can attest to how knotty and arduous it is. How to be faithful to our tradition, but also make sense of our faith in this new illusory, relative, and...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
In general, Christian churches are getting smaller and older. I don’t think it’s because young people are less spiritually hungry. Not at all. I think it’s because we have so closely wed the Christian Story and the Enlightenment worldview. It was OK that we did…...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
Today, many Americans wonder out loud if democracy is an absolute good, applicable to every culture, at every place, in every time (more). That’s new. It used to be that democracy was one of those “A-is-true” truths. Anything else was “not-A” and therefore not...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
In our lifetimes, our society is going through an update of how we think about the nature of things. It began almost one hundred years ago. Neils Bohr helped us discover that the chair you’re sitting on is really empty space and energy. Einstein told us that reality...
