Q. Richard I know that this Son of Man project has been on your mind and your to do list for a long time. Why did you feel it important to write at length on this controversial subject, and why now? A. I call it my pandemic project, because I started it around the time that the first lockdown began here in the UK. Moreover, just as no one imagined the pandemic would go on and on for so... Read more
Here’s a link: “No Inn in Which to Have No Room” https://davidbcapes.com/2023/12/26/no-inn-in-which-to-have-no-room-with-ben-witherington-iii/ Read more
Having spent my early years in high school and beyond playing in a symphony, and having watched with fascination Leonard Bernstein’s Young Peoples Concert Program week after week when I was young, of course I badly wanted to see the biopic on Bernstein which has been years in the making for Bradley Cooper, who both produced and starred, along with Carey Mulligan, in this 2 plus hour film. The film is half in black and white, and half in color,... Read more
Here’s some helpful reflections by my old friend Tom Wright from his Scripture and the Authority of God, pp. 128, 90-91. “We must committed to a totally contextual reading of scripture. Each word must be understood within its own verse, each verse within its own chapter, each chapter within its own book, and each book within its own historical, cultural, [and I would add rhetorical] and indeed canonical setting. All scripture is ‘culturally conditioned’. it is naive to pretend that some... Read more
This NY. Times article sums up the current state of affairs…. the UMC is adrift. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/the-united-methodist-church-schism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G00.J17k.kmP_OEZLGNTF&smid=url-share Read more
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I’ve been doing these forms of communication for more than twenty years now. One thing I’ve noticed repeatedly. Those who rely on the free information they can get from these sources, without doing any real research themselves, are subject to all sorts of misinformation and disinformation. Yes, there are some free sites on the web which usually provide reliable information, for instance Wikipedia is usually reliable, but it is also subject to constant revision and correction by experts, unlike many... Read more
RIP to my favorite jazz fusion pianist, Lyle Mays. Here are two of my favorite tributes after he passed. Read more
https://www.cnn.com/style/domus-tiberiana-rome-reopens https://www.cnn.com/style/rome-palatine-hill-archaeology-discovery/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/travel/pompeii-archaeologists-uncover-bakery-prison-intl-scli Read more
BOXING DAY [Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide (26 December). Though it originated as a holiday to give gifts to poor people, today Boxing Day forms part of Christmas celebrations, with many people choosing to take advantage of Boxing Day sales. It originated in Great Britain…in parts of Europe, such as several regions of Spain, the Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, and most of Ireland (excluding most of Ulster), 26... Read more
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