I’ve always wanted to go to Carnegie Hall. and when I discovered the Philadelphia Orchestra was going to be there the night I arrived in NY and they were going to play the longest symphony on record (1 hour and a half, with six movements) complete with three choirs and a mezzo soprano– Mahler’s Third, the symphony about creation and God…. well I had to go, even if I had to sit in the seventh deck, near heaven, which is... Read more
Me and Cousin It, who’s trying to string me along….. Read more
Sing along now— ‘Jesus loves the little T Rex/ Even though they’re now extinct/ thank God they’re dead and gone/ in the grave where they belong/ and Jesus never held one– at least I think.’ Read more
It’s been quite a while since Francis Collins, the former head of the NIH and one of the Founder of Biologos, published his NY Times bestseller, The Language of God. His new book is something entirely different. It is an attempt by a scientist who is also a very committed Christian to suggest ways America could get beyond the divisiveness, vitriol, cynicism about our basic institutions, hatred, and violence that has all been tearing at the very fabric of... Read more
One of my favorite British artists of the 80s. Read more
What a long strange trip it has been (and still is), to quote the Grateful Dead. My career as a teacher began B.C.– before cellphone, and even before personal computer. My poor wife had to type my doctoral dissertation (twice) on our IBM Selectric 3 typewriter, using a Hebrew ball, and a Greek ball, and a symbol ball etc. Many years later when we were living in Ashland Ohio, our daughter who was in grade school, and had begun to... Read more
PART FOUR: THE TREATMENT OF THE NT Let it first be said that Richard’s treatment of the Gospels does indeed place the emphasis in the right place in terms of God’s mercy and compassion as expressed in Christ’s various teachings and healings and acts of fellowship. The problem with these chapters is the important topics they fail to address. Examples are Christ’s views on marriage, sexual sin, the eternal consequences for rejecting the Good News, and Christ’s call of sinners... Read more
PART THREE: OT Teaching on Sexual Matters Chris’s presentation of the relevant OT evidence is well written and addresses an audience of clergy and laity. It is not meant to be a scholarly monograph, but it is to be taken seriously as written by two seasoned scholars who have read the academic discussion and reflected deeply on the relevant matter. His treatment of Ezekiel 20.25-26 is another example of his suggestion that God changed his mind. Chris thinks this... Read more
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