Category: DOC Thoughts
Hack the Church?
This headline caught my attention this morning, “Hack the Church.” Here is a paragraph from the Sojo.net article.
Hack the Church
by Catherine Woodiwiss | Sojo.net | May 15, 2015Llewellyn’s dappled journey — from biblical scholarship to tech-minded collaboration — reveals a potent lens that Christians across denominations are using to repurpose, mobilize, and reform the church. In hacking, they see a model for the future of Christianity.
The term “hacking” has undergone a recent transformation in the popular lexicon, back to its amorally general origins as a method of discovery and recombination. For every Heartbleed-like scare today, there are innumerable cheery Buzzfeed tips to hack your life; and while the digital bandits of Anonymous capture our imagination, “hackathons” — community-oriented workshops to solve urban challenges — have popped up in many major cities.
Evolution & Creationism .2
Thanks to the Westar Institute for tweeting a link to this article in The Seattle Times by Michael Zimmerman. It is a nice synopsis, I think, of a manufactured controversy between religion and evolution. Now, if only there was something similar about the manufactured “War on Christmas.”
Where There Is No Conflict Between Religion and Science
Michael Zimmerman | Opinion Guest | The Seattle Times | Feb 8, 2014The Christian clergy members who believe evolution can coexist with theology, like most clergy of most religions, recognize that their sacred texts were not written as scientific treatises.
They are comfortable embracing the words of the Dalai Lama, which appear at the top of a letter signed by American Buddhist clergy members: “If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims or adopt them as metaphor.” Click here to read more.