Please follow this link to the Christian Century web page for my blog post on “Life as an Image Bearer”.
Tag: image of god
The Popeye Creed
It took me until I was a person of a certain age before I was willing to fully embrace the Popeye creed. ( If you are not a person of a certain age and don’t know who Popeye is, you can find out about Popeye here and here.) You might recall, Popeye would say, “I yam what […]
God and Dog and Animal Rights
Recently the New York Times ran a editorial and an article about animal rights, both pieces prompted by Spain’s recent action to grant some legal rights to certain apes. To talk about animal rights, we must first recognize that the phrase has become a politically loaded term, used in unhelpful ways by extremists. Extreme animal rights activists have […]
God and Dog and Barth
This week let’s look at something Karl Barth wrote. If you would like some information about Karl Barth, this Wikipedia article is one source, and the Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Modern Western Theology has three short articles, and finally here is a 1962 Time magazine article. While there is a lot about Karl Barth on line, his books themselves are […]
God and Dog and Charles Colson Part One
In the April 2008 edition of Christianity Today, Charles Colson and Anne Morse wrote “Keeping Pets in Their Place: Why we can’t afford to treat animals like they’re humans”. Please read it and then come back so we can talk about it. Its been a while since I read something where I disagreed with the authors […]
In the Image of God: what it means to be human
Can we revisit the topic what it means to be human? My post “What does it mean to be human” from February 22, 2008 explored the question from the perspective of the traditional answer, how we are different from animals. Historically that is how we have defined ourselves. But almost daily there is a new piece of research that […]
