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The Penalty for Citing Wikipedia
May 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
John Anderson shared on Facebook the wonderful threat he makes to students if they should dare to cite Wikipedia in an assignment. He said he tells them he will change the Wikipedia article, penalize them for citing Wikipedia, and then penalize them again for not citing it accurately! The point he is trying to get [...]
Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Trailer
May 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I'm not entirely certain whether this is official, but it is still well done. Do you think they are still planning to do something with the Doctor's name along the lines of the hints we had received up until now, as highlighted in the video? Or is that all a red herring? Or is it [...]
“Christ and the Pentateuch”: JSTOR Content on the Internet Archive
May 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Content from JSTOR's older journal collection has been made available on the Internet Archive. As an example, below is a quote from an article by Henry P. Smith published in 1890, “Christ and the Pentateuch”, which appeared in the periodical The Old and New Testament Student. I think it is particularly interesting, given that some [...]
A Whirlwind of Inconsistencies
May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
In the wake of the devastating tornado in Oklahoma, a number of people have drawn attention to John Piper’s tweet of Job 1:19. Far from this verse indicating the notion that God is judging Oklahoma (which is what some have come to expect to hear from spokespeople for conservative Christian viewpoints), in context the verse [...]
Retelling Romans 2:17-29
May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
So you call yourself a Christian, and rely on the Bible, and boast in God, knowing God’s will and discerning what really matters because you’ve received Biblical instruction, being confident in your own ability to be a guide to the blind and a light to those in darkness, an educator of the foolish and teacher [...]
Trenzalore
May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
It looks like the tech folks at Patheos, who have been working hard on figuring out what was wrong with my blog, have made some progress! And since there is one place in the cosmos that a blogger must never go – his blog’s grave – I thought I’d share some music from the Doctor [...]
Blog Issues
May 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
As regular readers have presumably already noticed, there are some hiccups with this blog at the moment which are beyond my control. There seems to be a workaround – if you type “cp” in place of “www” in the URL of a page address, you should be able to get there. Commenting works OK. But [...]
Christians, Monotheism, and the Trinity
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
As Trinity Sunday approaches, there is bound to be an increase in blogging about the Trinity and about Christian views of God more generally. Here are some items that have already come across my radar: Allan Bevere suggests that the Trinity is not an appendix to Christian doctrine but something central. I find this a [...]
Quote of the Day (Karl Giberson)
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Science is open to correction. In the event that evolution does become a “theory in crisis,” we will read about that in Scientific American, Nature and Science, not the blogs of the anti-Darwinian culture warriors. – Karl Giberson, “Evolution’s Refusal to Die,” The Huffington Post
Retelling Romans 1:18-2:16
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“God’s anger is being poured out from heaven on all the godlessness and injustice of those people who, in their wickedness, suppress the truth. Because that which can be known about God is known to them – God has made it known! From the creation of the cosmos, God’s invisible aspects (God’s everlasting power and divinity) [...]
Video of John Green’s Butler University Commencement Address
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I previously mentioned (and shared the text of) this wonderful speech to graduates by John Green at this year’s Butler University Commencement. But now there is a video available. Enjoy!
Remnants from the Jewish Temple?
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
An interesting story came to my attention via a Greek archaeology feed aggregator, which with a bit of help led me to a story from the Biblical Archaeology Society. If the results of carbon dating indicated in the article are correct, then cedar beams used in the Al-Aqsa Mosque were there long before its construction. [...]
Christ’s Elementary Word
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday in my Sunday school class we discussed Hebrews 5:11-6:3. After a bit of discussion of the penchant in some Christian circles (although by no means all) to be content with an immature understanding of and approach to their faith, and a declining focus on education in some churches and denominations, we turned our attention [...]
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