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January 2023

January 16, 2023

God’s Ideal for Human Flourishing

I have been meaning to write this post ever since I read New Testament scholar...

July 2020

July 29, 2020

Did Jesus Have White Privilege?

Eric Metaxas tweeted the following and it is getting a lot of attention: The main...

June 2020

June 13, 2020

Tearing Down Monuments to the Slave Trade

I was profoundly disturbed to see someone I know share a post on social media...

March 2020

March 11, 2020

Inerrancy is for Slavery

There is a narrower as well as a broader sense in which the statement in...

December 2018

December 14, 2018

Inerrancy: The Hermeneutics of Defending Slavery

I have such a great appreciation for Neil Carter. Although he is no longer a...

December 01, 2018

Consistent Biblical Literalism, Flat-Earthism, and Slavery

An effort to be consistently literal in one's interpretation of the Bible leads to absurdities....

July 2018

July 30, 2018

Ovid Butler: “Is Slavery Sinful?”

Via both Ancient World Online (AWOL) and the Biblical Studies Blog, I learned about the Open Access Digital...

May 2018

May 08, 2018

Thank God for The Handmaid’s Tale!

It is ironic that some have treated the TV show The Handmaid's Tale as anti-religious,...

March 2018

March 07, 2018

Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron: The Movie and the Music

I love teaching my course on the Bible and music! In the class period dedicated...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Doctor Who: The Pyramid at the End of the World

The episode begins with the Secretary General of the UN coming to Bill Potts looking...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

Doctor Who: Thin Ice

The Doctor and Bill land in London 1814, and the episode starts with lots of...

March 2016

March 04, 2016

Historical Amnesia and Hindsight

Rachel Held Evans wrote in a recent blog post: It’s easy to comfort ourselves with...

November 2015

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 07, 2015

Understanding Biblical Inerranists

The quote comes from Fred Clark's recent post, "How to understand 'Biblical inerrantists.'" Here is...

April 2015

April 21, 2015

Genesis 2 is Not Literal (The Bible Tells Me So)

The quote comes from my recent post "Marriage is Sacred." The point is one that...

February 2015

February 17, 2015

Repent of Your Approach to the Bible

The quote comes from the post "Correction" which appeared here on February 13th.

July 2014

July 14, 2014

Same Method, Same Results

Fred Clark wrote the following in a post about the clobber texts for slavery: But...

July 02, 2014

Better Commandments

Via John Loftus, I became aware of this list of ten commandments which Valerie Tarico...

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...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

A More Complicated View of the Bible

Fred Clark has posted about Evangelical defenders of slavery and what their stance in a...

August 2013

August 25, 2013

Moses the Lifeguard

This cartoon came my way on Facebook today: While it is just a bit of...

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...

March 2013

March 30, 2013

Principles vs. Passages

I've made this point before (see especially my article for Religion Dispatches from 2008). But...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

Do Gospel Authors Owe Us The “Truth”?

I read the words below in an article in today's New York Times about the...

February 07, 2013

Happy Birthday, Ovid Butler!

Ovid Butler was born on this day in 1801. Among the things that he did...

October 2012

October 10, 2012

Hagar as Woman, Slave and Wife

It is useful to discuss what is going on with Christopher Rollston at Emmanuel Christian...

August 2012

August 02, 2012

So You Wanna Talk About Free Speech?

A lot of people have brought up "freedom of speech" and related phrases in discussion...

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...

September 2011

September 22, 2011

What Should the Southern Baptist Convention Change Its Name To?

As Jim West, Hemant Mehta and Claude Mariottini have noted, the Southern Baptist Convention is...

July 2011

July 15, 2011

The Bible Says It – Does That Settle It?

Take a look at this post by Crystal St. Marie Lewis, offering parallel fictional depictions...

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