After a week break while we were out of country I want to resume blogging about Greg Boyd’s The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. After sketching the cruciform center of the Bible’s vision and its view of God, Boyd feels the reader is prepared to encounter the “dark side” of the Bible — that is, what is often called texts of terror. But he begins on a different note altogether: Contrary to the overly generalized and sensationalized description of the... Read more

Here is our prayer for our mothers — from Kris and me — on Mother’s Day. It comes with a history for me. My mother was choir director at our church, and every Sunday — world without end, Amen — ended with the choir singing this Benediction. I can still sway and bob my head with the words. The Lord bless you and keep you The Lord lift His countenance upon you, And give you peace, and give you peace;... Read more

Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. BCP Read more

Acts 21:1 tells us the apostle Paul left Ephesus, went to the island of Cos, and then went to Rhodes and on to Patara (on modern Turkey). We don’t know how long Paul was in Rhodes but it doesn’t sound long; we also don’t know where he landed on Rhodes, though Lindos has claimed him for their own — and who wouldn’t want to claim Paul for such a gorgeous beach. But Lindos is the least likely and the two... Read more

The Spit Test: A little spit may help predict whether a child’s concussion symptoms will subside in days or persist for weeks. A test that measures fragments of genetic material in saliva was nearly 90 percent accurate in identifying children and adolescents whose symptoms persisted for at least a month, a Penn State team told the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. In contrast, a concussion survey commonly used by doctors was right less than 70 percent of... Read more

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At the first public BioLogos Conference in the summer of 2015, Prof. Ard Louis, a professor of theoretical physics at Oxford gave an outstanding talk “Randomness and Other Metaphors in the Theory of Evolution.” The lecture is available on YouTube (see below). I’ve held off on posting about it because the lecture runs 46 minutes, while clips of even 7 or 8 minutes tend to exceed the attention span of most readers. However, I just came across the video and... Read more

Part 4: The Slavery of the Imagination, by Jonathan Storment I know that you are busy. You barely have time to read this, so chances are you are skimming. You have deadlines to meet, meetings to make, and lots of important stuff to do. So for me to suggest that those things are not as important as they seem must sound ludicrous. It is even more outlandish to suggest the starker truth, You are not as important as it seems.... Read more