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What Happened "In the Beginning"?

What do you believe about the creation of the world? Do you believe that the Earth was created in 6 literal days (with a day of rest)? Or do you accept science up to a certain point but simply reject evolution? Or do you…
When Environmental Injustice Is a Holy Concern

It is often a polarizing discussion: stewardship of the earth matters, but the debate has become so inflamed with political rhetoric that intentional and influential discussion among Christians is often difficult. These…
Why Not Evolution?

By Eowyn Georgia Congressman Paul Broun has denounced evolution, embryology and the Big Bang Theory (the scientific theory, not the sitcom) as "lies straight from the pit of Hell." I'm not sure what Broun's credentia…
A Few Thoughts on Creative Work

By Sam at Creative Theology This painting was a huge influence in my thinking and writing process, which led to Creative Theology. Even when I didn’t realize it. But a Vapor When an artists creates out of an awar…
Beauty, Nature and Tiny Houses

By Sam at Creative Theology The untamed Nature is a source of incessant beauty. Why is this? Is it because the beauty of Nature lies in its complexities and its eternal variety? Our mind is simply stimulated by our insuf…
If Not Darwinian, then What?

Contemporary Christian creationists often deride Darwinian evolutionary theory and propose one of several current creationist models as a clear alternative. Of course, these groups debate amongst themselves over exactly…
Rediscovering Wonderland: In Awe of God's Creation

I believe that when we are born, we have as it were a sense of nothing. Absolutely everything we do is new to our internal and external senses. Every plant we touch is a new and wonderful sensation. Every sunrise, and ev…
Defining Life In Amongst The Chaos

By JN Hong Life is chaos. We began in chaos. If we were to subscribe to evolutionary theory, we were a few atoms forced together by chance from a million others emanating from a cosmic bang producing hydrogen atoms. From…
Responding to Creation

By Sam at Creative Theology Below are the notes from my Spark talk at Luminous: There is a literary term, ekphrasis, which is made up of the Greek words ek and phrasis, which are literally translated “out&rdquo…
Questioning the Creation-Evolution Debate

[This is reposted as part of our Best-Of Revelife Week. It was originally posted on March 3, 2011.] "For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross…