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#CFP Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible: Society of Biblical Literature #AARSBL20
Two calls for papers from the Recovering Female Interpreters of the Bible program unit, for the...
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Can Fundamentalists Understand the Bible?
This blog post started out as being about the old canard that non-Christians supposedly cannot...
October 2018
October 09, 2018
Making Meaning with(in) the Bible
Peter Leithart's post about the story of David and Goliath provides a helpful illustration of...
May 2016
May 15, 2016
Internet Monk shared this wonderful example of the problems with claims about the "plain meaning"...
July 2015
July 22, 2015
I've had my attention drawn to the Anomaly podcast about hermeneutics and Star Trek. It emphasizes why "It...
December 2014
December 02, 2014
If the biblical account of creation is literally true, then the creator is maliciously lying...
September 2014
September 06, 2014
The fundamental problem with Ken Ham and his ilk is—and always will be—not science, but...
July 2014
July 14, 2014
Fred Clark wrote the following in a post about the clobber texts for slavery: But...
May 2014
May 15, 2014
Scientifically-Tested Biblical Interpretation
Some people approach the Bible as though there were scientific tests that can be conducted...
April 2014
April 10, 2014
Betty Bowers’ Handy Bible Interpretation Guide
Via Mrs. Betty Bowers on Facebook. This is a new version of something of hers...
February 2014
February 12, 2014
Young-Earth Creationism vs. Love
Fred Clark posted about young-earth creationism's approach to the Bible and its historical connection to...
February 04, 2014
Although I greatly appreciate the sentiment expressed through the cartoon above, there simply isn't a...
January 2014
January 04, 2014
On Reddit I came across this wonderful bit of wisdom about interpreting the Bible, from...
September 2013
September 23, 2013
James Kugel Lecture on Biblical Interpretation
HT Scott Bailey
August 2013
August 27, 2013
Aric Clark has a very useful post about approaching ancient literature - in particular the...
August 07, 2013
Interpreting Scripture in Light of Scripture
I wrote the following in a comment on Facebook and thought I would share it...
July 2013
July 26, 2013
Richard Rohr writes in The Huffington Post: You deserve to know my science for interpreting...
July 21, 2013
The Hermeneutical Mini-Roundabout
Another gem from TheologyGrams.
June 2013
June 27, 2013
That Doesn’t Exactly Settle It
Joel Watts shared this on Facebook. I think that more qualifications need to be added...
April 2013
April 09, 2013
John Corvino on Homosexuality and the Bible
HT Hemant Mehta. If you find those videos of interest, you may also be interested...
August 2012
August 06, 2012
Approaching Scripture as Jesus Did
Morgan Guyton has an excellent post on what should be the Christian approach to Scripture,...
August 04, 2012
One of the most annoying things about dealing with Protestants is their insistence on Biblical...
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Inerrancy and Literalism: Quote of the Day (Theodore M. Vial)
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Eric Reitan: Inerrancy is Only a Theory, and Inerrantists aren’t Evil
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July 24, 2012
“Folks Haven’t Been Reading Their Bibles” – Barack Obama on Religion and Public Policy
Someone made the above quote from then senator Barack Obama into a poster. It...
July 14, 2012
A Guide to Dealing with Inconvenient Bible Passages
Stephen Savage shared this with me on Facebook: Ouch! Satire is most effective when it hits...
March 2012
March 17, 2012
Why is the Futurist Interpretation of Revelation so Popular?
Last Sunday in my Sunday school class, we continued to explore general and introductory topics...
February 2012
February 21, 2012
Substance and Advertising: Southern Baptists as “Great Commission Baptists”
Various news outlets are reporting that the Southern Baptist Convention stopped short of voting for...
February 09, 2012
Genesis 1-3 on How to Interpret Genesis 1-3
As Evolution Weekend draws near, many of us will be taking some time to address...
January 2012
January 09, 2012
Quote of the Day (Andrew Perriman)
"This is the problem—one of the problems—that the modern church has with reading the Bible....
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