The Bowling Alley Theologian Strikes Again

Back at SMS I used to head to the cam­pus bowl­ing alley in the stu­dent union and help stu­dents process ques­tions about God. It was right when the tele­vi­sion series Ed (about a bowl­ing alley lawyer) was get­ting pop­u­lar, and so I called myself the Bowl­ing Alley The­olo­gian. It was a lot of fun.

I had flash­backs today as I spent 5 hours in a long and ram­bling con­ver­sa­tion with a stu­dent. We talked about the exis­tence of God, the nature of truth, epis­te­mol­o­gy, moral­i­ty, the nature of Scrip­ture, archael­o­gy and the Exo­dus, evo­lu­tion­ary psy­chol­o­gy, the mind-body prob­lem, and the rela­tion­ship between facts, faith, doubt, and skep­ti­cism.

It was a lot of fun.

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