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November 2015

November 10, 2015

If Coffee Cups Define Your Christmas

November 10, 2015

The Perpetual Orwellian War On Christmas

The "war on Christmas" is Orwellian in character. It never ends, and is manufactured not...

November 09, 2015

What I’m Telling My Students Luncheon #aarsbl15

If you're a student who will be at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting...

November 09, 2015

Music From the Sorrowing Earth of Qumran

Jim Davila mentioned this piece, "From Sorrowing Earth" by Nigel Butterley, on his blog recently,...

November 09, 2015

Faith and Skepticism

Paul Malan recently wrote an article about skepticism and conservative religious views thereof. Let me provide...

November 08, 2015

Doctor Who: The Zygon Inversion

"The Zygon Inversion" is an instant classic, one of those episodes that immediately adds itself to...

November 08, 2015

Interpolation Mythicism

Commenter arcseconds made this useful observation in a discussion about whether Galatians 1:19 might be...

November 07, 2015

Diagnosing and Treating Unreformed Fundamentalism

Allan Bevere wrote a blog post highlighting the problem of the fundamentalist who rejects one...

November 06, 2015

The Bible as Love Letter from Kierkegaard

Kyle Roberts wrote a response to my recent post about the Bible not being a...

November 05, 2015

Karol Szymanowski – Litany to the Virgin Mary

How am I supposed to get work done, when I put on hauntingly beautiful music...

November 05, 2015

Sandwalking with Jesus

Larry Moran posted on his blog an excerpt from a conversation we had on Facebook. The...

November 04, 2015

Ghazaros (“Lazar”) Saryan – Passacaglia in Memoriam

I heard this work by Armenian composer Ghazaros (Lazar) Saryan on Performance Today yesterday, and it...

November 04, 2015

Fundamentalism is Immaturity

This is from a post with the title "Inerrancy as developmental disability." See also Bernier's post...

November 03, 2015

October 2015 Biblical Studies Carnival

Phil Long has posted the latest Biblical Studies Carnival, which includes a fascinating range not...

November 03, 2015

Further History-Denialism from Jerry Coyne

It boggles my mind and frustrates me when anyone engages in denialism, whether in science, history, or...

November 02, 2015

New Star Trek Is Coming!

The news broke today that a new Star Trek series will be made, to premiere...

November 02, 2015

Fundamentalism is Self-Righteousness

The above quote from Ian comes from a comment he left here on the post...

November 01, 2015

Inerrancy is Used to Defend Sin

Inerrancy is only ever used to defend sin, whether that sin happens to be the...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Doctor Who: The Zygon Invasion

Doctor Who has rarely addressed current events as directly as in "The Zygon Invasion," at...

October 31, 2015

Christians and Halloween

"Halloween is a Satanic holiday" is the most ridiculous, absolute lamest excuse that stingy people...

October 31, 2015

Museum of Science Fiction Journal of Science Fiction

Via Religion CFP and Penn English CFP, I learned that a new journal is being launched:...

October 31, 2015

Jesus’ Gender Identity

PZ Myers and Hemant Mehta both shared excerpts from the cartoon from which the above...

October 30, 2015

We Don’t Know the Whole Story

Maybe instead of or to supplement "What Would Jesus Do?" an updated way of making...

October 30, 2015

Star Wars Soundtrack Spoilers

Remember how we found out things we might not have wanted to if we looked...

October 30, 2015

Finding God in the Genome

This image from Pictoral Theology illustrates nicely a number of things about the approach many...

October 29, 2015

The Bible is NOT a Love Letter from God to You

Recently when I shared a post on this view of the Bible, I tried to...

October 28, 2015

Christology around the Blogosphere

On the Bible Odyssey website, Larry Hurtado answers a question about the worship of Jesus....

October 27, 2015

Biblical Inerrancy is an Attack on the Bible

Inerrancy is about the desire to have one's own views regarded as inerrant. The inerrancy...

October 26, 2015

Litany

The above litany was used in a service recently at Crooked Creek Baptist Church, in which...

October 25, 2015

The Great Religious Divide

Here is something I wrote for Facebook when I shared a meme I made with...

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