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October 30, 2007

What Would Jesus Read?

In response to a post about Scripture and canon on the Emerging from Babel blog,...

October 30, 2007

What is a mystic?

A mystic is someone who knows what he or she isn't talking about.

October 30, 2007

Quote of the Day (Albert Einstein)

"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh...

October 29, 2007

Genesis Rewritten

In the beginning, God spokebut there were no ears to hearnor was there an atmosphere...

October 29, 2007

Was Jesus “More Apocalyptic” Than His Mentor?

I don't post often enough on my current research area, the historical study of Jesus,...

October 29, 2007

Quote of the Day (Jeremy Campbell)

"Newton gave us a God of awesome power, sovereign, absolute. He was Lord of Dominion,...

October 29, 2007

Number of Non-Religious Supporters of Intelligent Design has risen at least 400%!

The number of supporters of intelligent design who are not religious seems to be rising...

October 28, 2007

Quote of the Day (Jesus)

"To take away a neighbor's living is to murder him; to deprive an employee of...

October 28, 2007

Young-Earth Creationism isn’t Science, but a Cult!

There has been a lot of discussion of the recent retraction of an old scientific...

October 27, 2007

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag – And It Is Wearing An ID!

Apparently the (comically unsuccessful) conspiracy that some proponents of intelligent design had been engaged in,...

October 27, 2007

A Three-Billion Year Curtain Raiser?

In my discussion with colleagues about Philip Kitcher's book Living With Darwin we discussed the...

October 27, 2007

Quote of the Day (Vishal Mangalwadi)

"As Jesus hung upon the cross of Calvary, it was literally the sin of the...

October 26, 2007

Red Letter Christians

"Things fall apart", and one thing that rapidly seems to be disintegrating is the Evangelical...

October 26, 2007

Quote of the Day (James D. G. Dunn)

"To demythologize the ascension is not to deny that Jesus "went to heaven"; it is...

October 25, 2007

Seeking Textbook Recommendations For A Course On Paul’s Letters

Next semester I will be teaching my course on "Paul and the Early Church" again....

October 25, 2007

Quote of the Day (Hanson and Hanson)

"An event that has been just around the corner for a thousand years is a...

October 25, 2007

LOST: The Beginning of the End

They have released a title for the premier episode from LOST's upcoming season. "The Beginning...

October 25, 2007

Darth Vader In Love

Many thanks to the blog SF Signal for sharing this. It has no obvious theological,...

October 25, 2007

What Makes For An Influential Blog?

Apparently, it is all in the links. A new study has attempted to rank blogs...

October 25, 2007

Interpreting the Bible Ethically: The Case of King David

What David did (in particular the infamous story about him and Bathsheba), many of our...

October 24, 2007

Thank You, Blogger! Now You Can Be Notified Via E-Mail Of Subsequent Comments!

Blogger seems to have added a feature that allows you to be e-mailed when there...

October 24, 2007

Keywords

A couple of other blogs I read regularly have mentioned some of the surprising keywords...

October 24, 2007

Quote of the Day (J. K. Rowling)

"I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion" (J. K....

October 24, 2007

Creatio ex nihilo

The doctrine of creation out of nothing is an interesting point of divergence between Jewish...

October 24, 2007

The Music Delusion

I just have to share this wonderful parody of the arguments of The God Delusion,...

October 24, 2007

More From The Middle

I am starting to think that the blogosphere may have some form of intelligence or...

October 23, 2007

The Radical Middle

I never thought I'd say this, but America might be better off if it had...

October 22, 2007

Is the Incarnation part of Christianity’s core?

In discussing Philip Kitcher's book with other faculty, one colleague referred to the 'core of...

October 22, 2007

Authorial Intention

What is the role of an author's intent in the interpretation of texts? As J....

October 22, 2007

The Blog vs. The Book: Smackdown

Why blog? This is a question I am sure that many bloggers' spouses ask them...

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