How much religious autonomy should children be given? How can dialogue and apologetics help Christian parents? Listen in with Amy Davison on the podcast
. What can academics and lay people do to understand each other better?
How can we bridge the gap? Listen in with Sheb and Sam Varghese on the
Faith Colloquium podcast.
Here is a list of good online academic resources. (I don’t agree with/endorse everything said from the list below, but they still remain very helpful.)
In the course of our lives, many of us change our minds from one set of beliefs to another. Why is that? Often it is because we discover some problem with that initial set of beliefs that we can no longer tolerate whether it be dualism, physicalism, Calvinism, open Theism, atheism, Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, cessationism, continuationism, etc. Moving from system A to system B can feel strange because sometimes you had reasons for not subscribing to system B that had to do with the problems in that system. What this demonstrates is that in every system, every worldview, there are pills you’re going to have to swallow. And the question to ask is which pills am I okay with swallowing. Think of evaluating different belief systems like this. Suppose you’re trying to buy a jigsaw puzzle at the store and there are all these different puzzle-sellers offering different puzzles. But none of the puzzles have all the pieces. All the boxes are missing some part of the puzzle. One puzzle might be a 1000 puzzle pieces and missing 500 pieces, but another puzzle might be… Read More »Evaluating Different Belief Systems
Occasionally, I listen to Dr. Taylor Marshall and Timothy Gordon, two Catholic thinkers who have a show discussing current issues in culture and the Catholic church. They are both obviously very intelligent. I’ve learned from them, and I would like to think that I would get along quite well with both of them in person.
In a recent conversation between these two, as he was discussing his book, Catholic Republic, Tim Gordon said, “Virtue ethics is Catholic.”
Philosophical Theology Podcast, Philosophy of Religion, Free Will and Moral Responsibility with Rick Stoody
Do we have free will? What does it mean to be morally responsible? Listen in with Rick Stoody on the Faith Colloquium Podcast.