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July 2022

July 13, 2022

This Is How I Fight…Just Be Kind

Everything Everywhere All At Once is a very strange movie. It has a sheer silliness about...

November 2020

November 05, 2020

Look Here

  A Facebook friend shared the above meme which features this quotation:  “The best teachers...

July 2020

July 10, 2020

Specks and Planks

I shared a somewhat frustrating interaction that I had with Randal Rauser not that long...

September 2019

September 20, 2019

Real Gods

Even before I finished listening to the audiobook of Orson Scott Card's novel Xenocide, I knew I...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

Pelosi and Proverbs

You have presumably heard that Nancy Pelosi has a favorite Bible verse: “To minister to...

May 2018

May 06, 2018

The Cruelty of Young-Earth Creationism

Fred Clark wrote recently: Young-earth creationism is a cruelly efficient machine for manufacturing spiritual crisis....

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Religion at its Best and Worst

I shared the above quote previously some time ago, but apparently the image went missing,...

April 29, 2018

Pen Seeking Understanding

Scot McKnight wrote eloquently about the place of writing in the life of an academic:...

April 17, 2018

What the Bible Says about X

Fred Clark wrote a helpful post about "concordanceism" a while back. Here is an excerpt:...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

The Best Word for Following Jesus

In the latest post in her "Faith in the Fog" series, Emma Higgs writes: Love...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

The God Who Cannot Be Defined In Words

Richard Beck shared this quote from St. Columban, and it immediately struck me as memeworthy....

May 2017

May 28, 2017

Uncomfortable with Contradiction

The article from which the quote is taken is worth reading in its entirety. Here is...

May 21, 2017

Scholars Love The Bible

Something I said a while back has been turned into a meme and begun to...

May 15, 2017

Fond of Quoting Leviticus

April 2017

April 07, 2017

Why Do We Believe Stuff That’s Not True?

'Why do we believe stuff that's not true?' he said, and I said, 'because it's easier...

April 03, 2017

Freethinking isn’t achieved by Leaving Religion 

I thought that this recent quote from Randal Rauser deserved to be highlighted in a...

March 2017

March 17, 2017

What Gospel Is That?

March 11, 2017

Attacking the Bible

I thought that the above quote from Pete Enns was worth sharing. Especially the last...

February 2017

February 20, 2017

Ken Ham’s Bible Fanfic

Ham’s brand of Christianity is more like Bible fan fiction than the Christian faith most...

February 19, 2017

Slavery to the Fear of Death

Richard Beck's words in a recent blog post seemed to me meme-worthy. Here is the...

January 2017

January 25, 2017

Christian Architecture

The only true Christian architecture of the first century was one of living stones and...

January 21, 2017

Yoda: Islamic Philosopher and American Supreme Court Justice

I was struck to learn the precursors to the famous words that Jedi Master Yoda speaks...

January 20, 2017

Why Jesus Died

The quote comes from my post "Remembering the Needs of the Many at Christmas."

January 19, 2017

Skepticism vs. Scholarship

Jonathan Bernier sums things up nicely: There is an unfortunate tendency in many circles to...

January 11, 2017

Avoiding Plagiarism

Dear students, here’s a super-simple tip on how to avoid plagiarism. Imagine someone reading your...

January 09, 2017

United by Doubt

The quote comes from James A. Haught's book 2000 Years of Disbelief. For more about...

December 2016

December 27, 2016

Brief Quotes and Simple Explanations

The above cartoon from Abstruse Goose is called "Special Relativity Simply Explained." But somewhat amusingly,...

November 2016

November 26, 2016

Not Liberal, Just Literate

Hemant Mehta drew attention to an article in the Star Tribune about meteorologist Paul Douglas, who...

October 2016

October 13, 2016

C. F. D. Moule on History and Christian Faith

Matthew Montonini shared a quote from C. F. D. Moule about history and faith. Here...

September 2016

September 30, 2016

The Myth of Mythicism and Undebunkable Skepticism

Jonathan Bernier noted in a recent post "the special pleading involved in rejecting a consensus...

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