I don’t have time to put together a post with a round-up of all the interesting posts around the blogosphere today, so I will simply point readers to the sidebar on this blog with posts I’ve recently read and chose to share. Someone found their way to this blog today by searching for “why are [...]

This is a second repost of something I wrote on my old blog about Carl Sagan’s The Varieties of Scientific Experience, which are essentially a transcript of his Gifford Lectures. Sagan’s approach to religion is so thoughtful, level-headed, and rational that it is tempting to advocate “Saganism”, an approach to truth that is open to [...]

There have been books about the “sufficiency of Scripture”, but yesterday as I was reading the Bible I happened across a verse which testifies to the insufficiency of Scripture. 2 John 12 reads: I have much to write to you, but I do not want to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to visit [...]

I am still wondering about the saying attributed to Jesus in various forms in various Gospels (and in Mark, denied as a false accusation), “I will destroy this temple and in three days rebuild it”. That something like this was the earliest form is most probable, and it seems to be authentic. The big question [...]

There is a post on the Doc Artz site with a delayed review of the Lost season 5 finale, and speculations about season 6 and the show’s ultimate end, interacting with many of the religious themes. It is definitely worth a look. Also of interest is Antiquitopia’s continuing review of Bauckham’s Jesus and the God [...]

The title of this post isn’t an abbreviation for something rude. It is an abbreviation for a question that I was asked some time ago and which I think it is important to ask, at least as a mental and spiritual exercise, since it can tell us a lot about what we really believe, what [...]

Mike Koke has a post on a subject that is not a world away from the subject of my most recent book, and which interacts with a couple of other blogs that have touched on the subject. And so I wanted to highlight it, even though I’m on the move and my blog is currently [...]