by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Feb 1, 2016 | Raising Christian Kids, Reading Well, The Bible, Uncategorized
A few nights ago, I was reading a popular children’s Bible with my kids. We read through the creation story describing how God made the light, separated the waters, formed the land, made the plants, animals, and finally made people. As we read, something troubled me...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jun 19, 2015 | Fostering Faith
Itching ears is an old expression, denoting the desire to hear what we want to hear, to hear ethical and practical teachings that suit us, that affirm our goals, desires, and lifestyles. It comes from a letter the Apostle Paul wrote to a young pastor, Timothy, nearly...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jun 26, 2014 | The Christian Imagination
Marcelo Gleiser, a theoretical physicist specializing in cosmology, nonlinear physics, and astrobiology, has a new book out, (The Island of Knowledge, The Limits of Science and the Search for Meaning) reviewed yesterday on NPR. I have not yet read the book but it...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 11, 2012 | Fostering Faith, Raising Christian Kids
Thinking of getting circumcised? Probably not….but how about getting your baby circumcised? A recent court decision may be relevant. A German court in Cologne ruled that circumcising boys is “grievous bodily harm” and should not be performed on a child until he...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Mar 7, 2012 | The Christian Imagination, Victorian Studies
Victorian Britain—especially from 1859-1901—it is often described in terms of a “crisis of doubt.” Today we assume that this crisis in Christian thinking developed because of Darwin but, as Owen Chadwick argues in his very long and frequently cited history of the...
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