On Sunday, June 8th, at 3:30 p.m., a group of Epinoians will be meeting in the upstairs cafe’s at Fifth Street Public Market in Eugene. We will be discussing Brennan Manning’s The Wisdom of Tenderness. Even if you’re not able to read the book in time for the meeting, we’d love to have you join us.

I’ve got a stack of books I am going to re-read this Spring. One I began perusing is called The Astonished Heart, by Robert Farrar Capon. The sub-title is ‘reclaiming the good news from the lost-and-found of church history.’

Some people say that religious beliefs can neither be justified nor refuted by reason. However while sometimes this claim is used as a reason for rejecting religious beliefs at other times it is used to conclude that these beliefs are established by faith. To what extent is faith a legitimate basis for knowledge claims in religion and the different areas of knowledge?

A book called “Unchristian” has been put out, in part by the Barna Research group. They are studying the responses of people to the notion of Christianity and Christians in general. In a nutshell, the news isn’t good. The “church” has lost credibility and strikes many as hypocritical and judgmental and specifically not a strong reflection of Jesus.