Peter Murmann

The followers of Jesus have been fighting about the proper way to interpret his teaching from the very beginning. Since Jesus did not write down his philosophy the writers of the ghospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that made it into New Testament had signficant interpretative flexibility to write up his message, making it all [Read More]

Last July, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, wanted to turn back the clock in the catholic church. Breaking with two generations of catholic scholars, Schoenborn did his best to portray the teaching of the catholic church as being in opposition to a Darwinian explanation of the development of different life forms (see below [Read More]

I always found it curious that fundamental Christians preferred in large numbers Republicans over Democrats. After all,  the core values of the democratic party seem to be much more in tune with Christianity. At least one evangelic pastor woke up recently and remembered that Christians are supposed to support peace and not war. Read this [Read More]