Sorry, I’ve been too busy to blog over the past few days. So if you need a supplement, just head over and check out some of Halden’s excellent posts (especially the first one, on romantic love).

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Our new blog of the week is Cynthia’s immensely learned and always stimulating Per Caritatem. “Non intratur in veritatem nisi per caritatem – you can’t enter into truth except through love.â€

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Thanks to Cynthia, the Augustine blog conference is now underway.

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Our blog of the week is Davey Henreckson’s terrific new blog, Theopolitical.

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Our new blog of the week is the delightful and always stimulating Flying Farther. A lifetime flies, but we’ll fly farther.

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Our new blog of the week is Christians in Context. If you think conservative Reformed blogging has to be narrow and humourless, then these guys will prove you wrong. While you’re there, you might also like to check out their Theologica forum, and their popular Theological Word of the Day widget.

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Halden has issued a call for papers for the inaugural Bonhoeffer Blog Conference, scheduled for November this year. The topic is “Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics and Contemporary Theology.†The conference will place Bonhoeffer’s Ethics in conversation with trends and issues in contemporary theology. Submissions should be between 1500 and 2500 words, and should explore the implications of Bonhoeffer’s work for our contemporary theological, ecclesial, social, and political contexts.

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A new (probably temporary) feature here at F&T is the “blog of the week†– at the top of the sidebar, you’ll see a widget featuring posts from a selected blog. Our first blog of the week is The Fire and the Rose.

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The second annual Karl Barth Blog Conference has now finished. Here is an index of all the posts:

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This year’s Karl Barth blog conference is now up and running. Over the coming days, there’ll be about a dozen posts discussing Barth and the theology of his greatest student, Eberhard Jüngel. You can read the summary here, and the first post here.

I’ve also added a widget to the top of the sidebar, to help you keep track of the posts as they appear. Thanks to WTM for all the hard work he puts into running this excellent event!

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If you’re ever feeling a little widgety, you’ll now be able to get F&T as a widget. You can get this any time by clicking the new link in the sidebar.

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Recently here at F&T we had a poll to determine the world’s best theologian – and you might remember that Rowan Williams won by a decisive margin.

Anyway, David Williamson was recently interviewing the Archbishop, and towards the end of the interview he mentioned this blog-poll. When Rowan Williams heard that he had won the poll, he guffawed in astonishment and replied: “Did I? Good grief! Well, some people need to get out more.â€

So there you have it, folks: an official (and very accurate) pronouncement on this blog, straight from the Chair of St Augustine…

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The folk at the GoingToSeminary blog have come up with a cunning and effective strategy for boosting blog traffic. (If I win the prize, I’ll donate it to a reader of F&T.)

Peter Leithart has a nice quote from Pamuk on “why we fall in love with only a few books in a lifetime.†And Brian is absolutely right to defend the importance of theological polemics: “Are not such oppositions entirely necessary, in order to demonstrate the kinds of decision (rather than syncretism) that conversion entails?â€

Daniel Philpott writes about the relation between political theology and liberal democracy, noting that Mark Lilla’s argument in The Stillborn God “is driven by his own beliefs about theology as much as it is by his beliefs about the history of theology.†Fr Chris points us to a new First Things article by Avery Dulles on salvation outside the church. And Halden speaks of the pernicious domination of choice in the contemporary church: “The reality of choice, as constructed in late capitalism as the all-powerful arbiter of shaping life, must be met head-on by Christians.â€

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A few hours ago, F&T had its 400,000th visitor. To mark the occasion, I’ll be sending a free book to the lucky visitor. This person hailed from Portland, Oregon, and s/he was reading F&THalden’s blog. (Come to think of it, perhaps it was Halden himself? – I think he lives in Portland.)

Anyway, please let me know if you’re the visitor in question, so that I can send you your prize. And, to everyone who reads this blog: thanks for visiting!

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on a computer with the IP address 76.105.246.# (Comcast Cable). This visitor came here from a link at

If you’re an American college or grad student with a blog, you can (believe it or not) apply for the $10,000 Daniel Kovach Scholarship. I reckon someone should nominate The Fire & the Rose, which has gotta be one of the finest American-student-blogs out there.

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Faith & Theology is now two years old! In the past two years, this blog has had:
It’s especially the readers and commenters who make this blog so enjoyable – so thanks to all of you!

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