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September 2010

September 29, 2010

Do atheists know more about religion than the religious?

That's what a Pew Research study of "religious knowledge" suggests: Atheists and agnostics, Jews and...

September 28, 2010

The Rich Man & Lazarus

Those of us whose churches follow the three-year lectionary on Sunday heard the account of...

September 20, 2010

Comparing notes on the dishonest steward

The Gospel reading for yesterday was the parable of the dishonest steward (Luke 16:1-13), the...

September 17, 2010

The Collect & Bible readings

More from Narrative Commentary on the Divine Service by John Pless. Notice how we hear...

September 17, 2010

Dumb parables?

Another great sermon from Pastor Douthwaite, preaching on Luke 15:1-10. An excerpt: And so Jesus...

September 16, 2010

Introit, Kyrie, Gloria

More from the Narrative Commentary on the Divine Service by Prof. John Pless of Concordia...

September 10, 2010

A new Lutheran church, gnosticism, and the Bible

A new Lutheran denomination is being formed, the North American Lutheran Church. It consists of...

August 2010

August 23, 2010

Anne Rice is a “believer” but not a “Christian”

You should read this fascinating interview in Christianity Today with Anne Rice, the novelist who...

August 04, 2010

New theories on the Dead Sea Scrolls

Some scholars are thinking that the Dead Sea Scrolls, those ancient texts that include some...

June 2010

June 24, 2010

Earliest portrait of St. Paul

Archaeologists using lasers to clear away centuries of mineral accretions have uncovered in a 4th...

May 2010

May 28, 2010

King Herod’s face

Biblical Archaeology Review has published a portrait of one of the king Herods, one of...

March 2010

March 15, 2010

The Prodigal Father

How many times have you read the story of the Prodigal Son? How many sermons...

March 03, 2010

Solomon’s wall unearthed in Jerusalem

In more archaeological news, the wall that Solomon built around Jerusalem has been discovered. "The...

January 2010

January 19, 2010

Earliest Hebrew writing discovered

According to liberal Bible scholarship, the Bible was not written down until the 6th century...

January 18, 2010

How is “The Book of Eli”?

John Boot says that the ultra-violent "Book of Eli" is "a proudly Christian movie." Did...

January 08, 2010

The Bible in 72 hours

A church in Superior, Wisconsin is sponsoring a Bible-reading marathon. SUPERIOR, Wis. - Superior’s Central...

January 06, 2010

Put May 21, 2011 on your calendar

Radio evangelist Harold Camping has calculated that the Rapture (the ascension of all living Christians...

December 2009

December 29, 2009

Wordclouds of the Bible

You must see Sixty-Six Clouds, which gives wordclouds (computerized breakdowns of word frequency with the...

December 24, 2009

Christmas Eve is Christmas

In the ancient world, the end of the day was when the sun went down....

December 24, 2009

The hometown of Jesus

Archaeologists have excavated a house in Nazareth from the time of Jesus. The story about...

December 15, 2009

Prayer, meditation, temptation

Luther famously said that to be a real theologian takes oratio, meditatio, and tentatio. The...

November 2009

November 26, 2009

Be thankful we still have God’s Word

In our Bible class, we are studying Genesis by way of Luther's commentary, the equivalent,...

October 2009

October 27, 2009

Bill Cosby & the Bible

Bill Cosby was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor last night, a much-deserved...

October 22, 2009

Moses and America

Bruce Feiler points out that Moses is depicted all over the place in our nation's...

October 19, 2009

The camel going through the eye of the needle

Pastor Douthwaite had another killer sermon yesterday. See what he does with the "camel through...

October 16, 2009

Halloween Book Burning

More anti-conservative, Bible-hating conservatism: Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, North Carolina, is sponsoring a...

October 12, 2009

Where God puts His Name

Our pastor tossed off a comment in yesterday's Bible class that still resonates with me...

October 06, 2009

Making the Bible more conservative

Rod Dreher at Crunchycon draws attention to a venture designed to make the Bible more...

September 2009

September 28, 2009

Ancient Egyptian coins depict Joseph

The Jerusalem Post reports a startling archeological discovery. Coins with Joseph's name found in Egypt...

September 09, 2009

The new new-NIV may be even more gender-inclusive

We blogged about how a Zondervan editor thinks the handling of the TNIV was a...