How will the human species continue to evolve? That was the question posed earlier in the week by CBS’s Sunday Morning in a segment called “The Future of Evolution.” But before looking to the future of human evolution, Sunday Morning briefly examined its history. This was a wise direction for the segment, in my opinion, because before we speculate on what we’re evolving into, we need to know what we’ve evol ...

Suzanne, As I lead us into this final installment of this blogalogue, I’m feeling a lot like our protagonist Bill. He never would have thought, under any circumstances, that he would have kissed his ex-girlfriend’s best friend. That would break so many social rules. And yet, put him in the right – or wrong – situation and…BOOM! He’s locking lips with the Forbidden One on the Kiss Cam at a Dodgers game. I’m ...

Adam, I’m so glad you challenged the idea that we and our desires are solid and impermeable as billiard balls. That idea is so ingrained in our culture of hyper-individualism that even Ira Glass, the host who brought us the tale of the Kiss Cam kiss, drew a completely unsupportable conclusion from his own story! He couldn’t grasp how it was possible that the accumulated gaze of 50,000 people could cause a b ...

The question is: Who is our ultimate model of authority? Rob wants us to consciously choose Jesus as our model of authority. When the church chooses Jesus, then it becomes the body of Christ, empowered not with the authority of coercive power, but empowered by the Holy Spirit to follow Christ in service and love. ...

Many people in our modern culture are quick to denounce ancient literature, such as the Bible, for being backwards and dehumanizing to women. You want to see literature that’s backwards and dehumanizing to women? Then go to the magazine rack at the checkout stand of any American supermarket. ...

So, in the end, Zero Dark Thirty asks us the same question, “Where do you want to go?” The movie has reinvigorated the debate about the morality of torture. But the movie is about much more than torture. It’s about violence. ...

Adam discusses the theological and anthropological implications of Halloween. It is the day when it is socially acceptable to dress up and identify with what is socially unacceptable. One example is monsters. On Halloween we identify with our monsters. This is interesting because it is easy to identify others as monsters, but difficult to identify our own monstrous behavior and tendencies. The anthropologis ...

“No Easy Day”, a firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is not even out yet and it’s already a bestseller on Amazon.com and BN.com. The author who tried to publish under a pseudonym has been identified by Fox News, his book is under investigation by the Pentagon for possible national security violations, and jihadists are calling for his assassination. He can’t be surprised to ...

The Huffington Post thinks we should be shocked. But I’m not. The story’s headline on the front page of Huffington Post Crime section reads “SHOCK: Serving Soldiers Planned To Bring Down U.S. Government.” That’s the headline, but the title of the article reveals a bit more: “Military Terror Plot: Murder Case Uncovers Terror Plot By ‘Militia’ Within U.S. Military.” The Huffington Post reports that an anarchi ...

Last night someone asked me if I’d heard about the Kristen Stewart sex scandal. Unfortunately, I had. Because I check my email. I go through yahoo.com to get to my email, in part because yahoo.com is a quick way to catch up on news. Apparently, the folks at yahoo.com thought the story, with the headline “Stewart Cheats with Director,” was news. Stewart, as you may know, plays the lead character in the Twili ...