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August 2013

August 21, 2013

Caption This

August 21, 2013

Press Publish Interview

Josh Mann has been conducting and posting interviews with Biblical scholars who blog, and the...

August 17, 2013

GameChurch at #GenCon

Today I've been at GenCon most of the day. There is free wi-fi only in...

August 16, 2013

Boring

This came my way today via Facebook: How would you say "That's boring" in your...

August 09, 2013

Context Changes Meaning

I have often emphasized that fundamentalists do not accomplish what they claim to. Simply repeating...

August 09, 2013

Jesus, the Gospels and History

Amanda Witmer has written an article for The Bible and Interpretation about mythicism. Here's how it...

August 08, 2013

The Most Shocking Verse in Hebrews?

The most shocking verse in the Epistle to the Hebrews? No, I'm not referring to...

August 08, 2013

Decision-Making Dilemma

Frank Viola shared this image: Although there is nothing wrong with asking what someone we...

August 03, 2013

Mythicism and Parallelomania around the Blogosphere

My recent use of the term "parallelomania" (popularized by Samuel Sandmel) has sparked some discussion...

August 01, 2013

When a God Requires Custodial Protection

When a god begins to require the custodial protection of those who worship him, he...

July 2013

July 26, 2013

The Jesus Hermeneutic

Richard Rohr writes in The Huffington Post: You deserve to know my science for interpreting...

July 25, 2013

Christianity in a Nutshell?

I probably should have saved this until Christmas, and called it "Christmas in a nutshell"...

July 22, 2013

For Unto Us A Son Is Born

The announcement was recently made that princess Kate has given birth to a son. Those...

July 22, 2013

Keep Christ in Christianity

The latest cartoon from David Hayward is interesting to think about in connection with the...

July 20, 2013

Beyond Jesus-Agnosticism

Rick Sumner poses some interesting questions on his blog The Dilettante Exegete - during some...

July 19, 2013

Spinning the Cross

David Hayward's latest cartoon will probably be controversial in some circles. But on one level,...

July 13, 2013

Win a Slightly Defective Jesus!

OK, so I left the word "pendant" out of the title. Steve Caruso is holding...

July 12, 2013

One of Jesus’ Parabolas

Via Facebook  

July 04, 2013

Training Jesus

The Gospel of Luke depicts a Jesus who learned. Many fundamentalists view Jesus as someone...

July 03, 2013

Abiding Questions

In working on my conference paper on lightworld visitors to Jerusalem in the Mandaean Book...

July 03, 2013

Jesus vs. Mandaean Lightworld Figures in the Great Treasure

Here are another couple of excerpts from the Great Treasure or Ginza Rba, which are...

July 02, 2013

Using Jesus

David Hayward wrote the following on his blog today: Everyone with any sense knows that...

June 2013

June 29, 2013

Did Paul Have a Distinctive Christology? Did He Think of Jesus as a Pre-Existent Human Being?

In a recent blog post, Larry Hurtado noted Morton Smith's observation that Christology never turns...

June 28, 2013

We Promise (Fingers Crossed)

David Hayward's latest cartoon.  

June 28, 2013

Vridar No Longer Available

I was in the process of writing a response to Neil Godfrey's latest accusation against...

June 25, 2013

Who Do My Opponents Say That I Am?

No, this blog post is not asking about my opponents. It is to mention that a...

June 23, 2013

Beyond Belief by David Wilcox

A progressive Christian song. HT Sara Kay on Facebook.

June 23, 2013

Hebrews 9: A Bloodbath

Hebrews 9 is the source of a couple of popular "memory verses" in conservative Evangelical...

June 23, 2013

The Jesus COMPASS

Paul Regnier shared a handy acronym he uses to help students remember the range of...

June 19, 2013

What If Jesus Was Real?

"What if Jesus was Real?" is the title of Joel Watts' new article in the...

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