Duane Smith has written a delightful post that reflects on and analyses the point of view of someone who doesn’t trust the experts. Duane’s whole post is important and insightful, and is worth reading and sharing widely. In his post, Duane quotes Isaac Asimov, and since it gets at the heart of the matter in [...]

Thanks to Jim Davila and Jim West for pointing out the new article by Geza Vermes presenting the great aspects of the man usually referred to as Herod the Great, and yet whose depiction is usually so one-sidedly negative in both the Jewish and Christian traditions that it is hard to understand how he could [...]

Today on blogs I read two reflections were offered on the meaning of Christmas from non-conservative Christian viewpoints. One is on the blog Settling for Butterflies and is a sermon by a United Methodist pastor who is also a graduate of Butler University. The other is on the blog The Piety That Lies Between, by [...]

Justin Mihoc offers a report on a seminar paper presented by Judith Lieu at Durham University on the subject of “Heresy and Scripture.”

James Bradley, emeritus professor of mathematics at Calvin College, has begun a series at BioLogos explaining fatal flaws with William Dembski’s “design inference.”

Hemant Mehta is rightly troubled by a letter to the editor published in the Chicago Tribune. Here’s the text of the letter: Eighteen months after graduating from a public high school, I had a chance encounter with Mr. Clark, my old guidance counselor. In what might have been a fishing expedition, he asked me who [...]