Tom Vail, editor of the book Grand Canyon: A Different View, will be speaking at Liberty University on Tuesday, April 18th.

This is the book that many scientists were upset about being for sale at Grand Canyon Park bookstores a few years back. The book gives a creationist explanation of the Grand Canyon, showing how the evidence is consistent with the Great Flood of Scripture.

The event is free of charge, and there will be time afterwards for questions.

Okay, it’s really White on Wright, but once I got rice in my head, I just couldn’t let it go. Anyhow.

Yesterday James White ripped on NT Wright, saying that in the UK he’s not looked upon as a conservative at all. I’m not sure who White was talking to over there, but I’ve read several UK news articles that treat Wright as the whacked-out-conservative, similar to how Jerry Falwell is written about here in the US.

Anyhow, White quotes Wright from this article in The Australian…

Attesting to this is one of the Church of England’s heaviest hitters, the Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright, who was in Australia recently on a lecture tour. An eminent theologian, an expert on the historical and biblical Jesus and a staunch believer in the resurrection, he baulks at denouncing those who are not.
“I have friends who I am quite sure are Christians who do not believe in the bodily resurrection,” he says carefully, citing another eminent scholar, American theologian Marcus Borg, co-author with Wright of The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions.
“But the view I take of them – and they know this – is that they are very, very muddled. They would probably return the compliment.
“Marcus Borg really does not believe Jesus Christ was bodily raised from the dead. But I know Marcus well: he loves Jesus and believes in him passionately. The philosophical and cultural world he has lived in has made it very, very difficult for him to believe in the bodily resurrection.
“I actually think that’s a major problem and it affects most of whatever else he does, and I think that it means he has all sorts of flaws as a teacher, but I don’t want to say he isn’t a Christian.

I’m not convinced that’s adequate cause to label Wright a liberal, though. Basically, Wright is affirming all the right things here, even being very critical of The DaVinci Code. But he holds back on condemning a person to hell, that confesses faith in Jesus. Wright clearly indicates that he believes those that deny the ressurrection are wrong, but doesn’t say they are necessarily doomed to hell.

And it’s this hesitation, apparently, that White has a problem with.