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March 2016

March 23, 2016

Ten Prayers that Changed the World

I am grateful to have the opportunity to participate in a blog tour about Jean-Pierre...

March 21, 2016

The History of Afterlife in Sunday School

I've mentioned my Sunday school class at Crooked Creek Baptist Church on this blog on...

March 16, 2016

Max Stern: Bible and Music

I've been developing a course on the Bible and music, and so was delighted to...

March 09, 2016

A quote from a recent post.

March 03, 2016

Y’all Version

Y'all have probably heard of the Bible app and website YouVersion. Well now John Dyer, a...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

The Hazardous Bible

"People of faith can read the Bible so that almost any perspective on a current...

February 22, 2016

Swing By and Pick Up the Llamas

Yesterday's Bizarro comic highlighted the absurdity of the Noah's ark story when taken literally. One...

February 16, 2016

X-Files 10.5 – Babylon

No need to justify discussing this episode of the X-Files in relation to religion -...

February 15, 2016

The Bible is Clear

The Bible could not be clearer. No one should be doing something just because it...

February 10, 2016

What the Bible Says

One of my first posts on this blog, after it moved from its original self-hosted location...

February 03, 2016

These Preachers are Liars

This paraphrase of Jeremiah 14:14 is striking. I'm often in two minds about The Message. What...

February 02, 2016

X-Files 10.3 – Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster

This was a great episode, of the satirical and self-parodying sort that the X-Files regularly...

January 2016

January 14, 2016

Reading the Bible in Machete Order

On the first day of my class on the Bible, I ask students what order...

January 09, 2016

The Atheist Game of Telephone

A friend shared this meme, together with the comment, "Showing that whatever else atheists are,...

January 05, 2016

Cities that Built the Bible

Bob Cargill's latest book, The Cities That Built the Bible, is now available for pre-order....

January 03, 2016

Maybe God Put Contradictions In The Bible To Weed Out Dishonest Christians

Kent Hovind has suggested that God may have put difficulties in the Bible to weed...

January 02, 2016

Latest Biblical Studies Carnival

Jennifer Guo has posted the latest Biblical Studies Carnival on her blog. Click through to...

December 2015

December 05, 2015

Reading Others’ Scriptures: The Golden Rule Applies

Hemant Mehta is among several who have noted the above video, which features a couple...

November 2015

November 30, 2015

Satan’s Ethical Code vs. God’s?

It has been funny to see what atheists have had to say about the Seven Tenets posted...

November 22, 2015

Gets The Last Word, The Dark Side Does Not

As I was preparing the PowerPoint for my conference paper which I read yesterday, I...

November 21, 2015

Metacriticism of Biblical Scholarship at #AARSBL on Saturday Afternoon

This session focused on canon and fan fiction, making comparisons between science fiction and other...

November 21, 2015

The Permeability of Scripture

The Bible's edges blur into the world around it. There is no human encounter with...

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 04, 2015

Fundamentalism is Immaturity

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

Christians and Halloween

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

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 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 21, 2015

Trust God, Not the Bible

Here is a larger excerpt from the blog post from which the quote comes: Here’s...

October 13, 2015

When is the Bible the “Word of God”?

It is obvious to anyone who has thought about the matter that the Bible is...

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