This essay describes the author’s experiences in living with laboratory mice, and investigates how these can function as a starting point for building new relations mice. Laboratory mice are not often studied to learn more about They seen replaceable, only useful humans. challenges this by drawing attention their ways of being, individuality, sense community, practices care, creating meaning. T...

In this brief reply to Walls’ challenging critique, I try to do two things: first, clarify the most fundamental point on which I think Walls and I disagree, and second, argue that, as surprising as it may first appear, Walls’ free will theodicy of hell requires that God interfere with human freedom in inappropriate ways. For a number of years now I have considered Jerry Walls to be one of my be...

Do forgiving God primes strengthen support for state-sanctioned punishment? Laurin et al (2012) found that beliefs in powerful, intervening Gods (both in general and when made salient) reduce people’s endorsement of state-sanctioned punishment. In light of this, we investigated whether the manner in which God intervenes (via forgiveness or punishment) influences people’s endorsement of state-sa...

The research started from an interest in ritual phenomena the Jaranan Kridha Budaya performance. Ritual of Rejection is defined as a means to convey special message God Almighty so not bring down calamities, such natural disasters and disease outbreaks. In Obong Incense ritual, it required use Reject Balak Gendhing which mandatory gending cannot be replaced with another gending. Tolak that beli...

Philosophers have often misunderstood Kierkegaard’s views on the nature and purposes of God due to a fascination with his earlier, pseudonymous works. We examine many of Kierkegaard’s later works with the aim of setting forth an accurate view on this matter. The portrait of God that emerges is a personal and fiercely loving God with whom humans can and should enter into relationship. Far from a...

Consideration of the nature New Testament Theology (NTT) necessitates an account theology or “God-talk”. Karl Barth grasped that all valid God-talk begins with God’s self-disclosure through Jesus and Spirit, which people acknowledge reflect on. Abandoning this starting point by way “Foundationalism”—that is, resorting to any alternative basis for God-talk—leads multiple destructive epistemologi...

it is necessary for community health nurses to be aware of children growth velocity as well as their height. this is a report of joan arton’s study on primary schools children. traditionally children health indicators were based on if they gain enough weight or not. although today it is proved that height is a better index for children health, but measuring height alone is not enough and growth...