God

He Learned Obedience

May 14, 2013 By James F. McGrath 4 Comments

There is material in Hebrews 4-5 that is particularly striking when considered in relation to some of the classic creedal formulations of Christian orthodoxy, as well as other popular ways of Christian thinking about Jesus. We reached this section Sunday in my Sunday school class, and I wanted to share some thoughts on the passage. [...]

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Doctor Who, Judaism, and the Ineffable Name

May 10, 2013 By James F. McGrath 3 Comments

Tablet magazine has an article about Doctor Who from a Jewish perspective. It includes less well known details, such as the Jewish background of the show’s creator Sydney Newman, as well as more familiar topics such as the depiction of Nazism in the form of the Daleks, and the seemingly ineffable name of the Doctor [...]

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Beyond What Human Thought Can Encompass

May 2, 2013 By James F. McGrath 13 Comments

Another insightful and challenging cartoon from David Hayward.

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Testing Young-Earth Creationism

May 2, 2013 By James F. McGrath 54 Comments

Cdbren, a young-earth creationist commenter who was caught engaging in dishonest practices on this blog a while back, has made a reappearance, this time to (among other things) complain about my focusing on chalk deposits like the famous White Cliffs of Dover as counter-evidence to young-earth creationism. But as commenter Ian pointed out, it is [...]

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Beware of God

May 1, 2013 By James F. McGrath 16 Comments

I presume that this sign is intentional and not a spelling error: From This Isn't Happiness, HT Jeff Carter on Facebook Gods were, and then later a single God was, thought to be capricious and terrifying in ancient times. The divine was thought to be, or later to be expressed through, what we today call [...]