What I noticed about this exchange: 1) Tyson doesn’t deny that biology is binary– your chromosomes don’t lie. You are biologically either male or female unless you are born abnormally formed physically speaking. Tyson does not (and cannot deny this). So there is no ‘gender spectrum’ in terms of how one is born, biologically or genetically (which includes no evidence as of yet of a gay gene that would incline someone in a same sex direction; 2) this means that... Read more
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Even though you can fly, For some reason I, Must ask you why, You’re hitching a ride in my car. I wish I had wings And could do all the things That flying can bring But alas, my ‘wings’ are sub-par. The thing about flying And I am not lying It involves more than just jumping and trying. I’ve learned that much so far. Even moths must come down And rest on the ground And eat what... Read more
While it is certainly can be true that reading the Bible can produce joy and other positive emotions, the Bible was not written for mere pleasure reading, like reading a summer novel by Grisham. As Ps. 119 makes clear, the Bible is meant for serious reading— but what does that look like? Especially what does that look like if indeed the Bible is meant to be obeyed when it offers imperatives? In the first place, the Bible needs to be... Read more
Benjamin Laird is no stranger to dealing with complex issues vis a vis the composition and collection of NT, as his previous work on the collection of the Pauline letters shows. This 272 page study which is hot off the IVP press (July 11, 2023) certainly deserves close scrutiny and is to be applauded for its careful historical work involving a variety of difficult issues— who counts as an apostle and what does the phrase apostolic authority mean (and why... Read more
Sometimes like ships passing in the night, sometimes like rivers crossing each other occasionally, white music and African music went their own ways, occasionally cross-fertilizing. In this post we will focus on the blues, and on country music, the latter coming first…. There was a major emphasis in this exhibit at the Frist on Leadbelly, but also on other blues guitarists…. Read more
Without question, the guitar caught the imagination of numerous artists in the 19th and 20th centuries, and as America gradually moved West the guitar became associated with Western things, including later movies (think Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger and more). Here is a very interesting painting (with numerous stringed instruments in it). Take a close look… Guitars show up just about everywhere, and in all kinds of paintings…. Even artists as famous as Whistler (remember his painting of... Read more
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