Faith and Reason. Theology essays by MD Parkins.https://mdparkins.com/https://mdparkins.com/post/james-cone-the-lynched-jesus/https://mdparkins.com/post/james-cone-the-lynched-jesus/Sad to hear that James Cone died yesterday. He was the founder of modern Black Liberation Theology. He showed how black theology identifies less with Christ’s death as payment for sin, but rather with Jesus as a black man who is humiliated, tortured and lynched. Ever since I was Wed, 02 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://mdparkins.com/post/did-god-command-genocide-in-the-old-testament/https://mdparkins.com/post/did-god-command-genocide-in-the-old-testament/— Moses, Nu 31:17–18, NIV (2011). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan. Moses here instructs the Israelite army how they are to take violent revenge against the Midianites, specifically the Midianite children & youth. This is one of the many instances of so-called divinely-sanctioned violThu, 04 May 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mdparkins.com/post/the-challenge-to-faith/https://mdparkins.com/post/the-challenge-to-faith/I understand where Rachel Held Evans is coming from here and, unless you have a solution to the problem of evil and suffering, gratuitous acts of evil will rightly challenge your faith in God. This is why many would rather settle for trite answers: from the repugnant Calvinistic/Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mdparkins.com/post/god-is-love/https://mdparkins.com/post/god-is-love/God is patient, God is kind. God does not envy, God does not boast, God is not proud. God does not dishonour others, God is not self-seeking, God is not easily angered, God keeps no record of wrongs. God does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. God always protects, Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://mdparkins.com/post/a-note-on-natural-evil/https://mdparkins.com/post/a-note-on-natural-evil/Summary The short version of the article below is that I'm suggesting that Divine Hiddenness is intentional, and the reason I think God hides himself is so that the integrity of our free-will is protected. This would allow God to place each one of us on an individual journey withThu, 05 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMT