Well, after several attempts at importing the comments from Blogger into Disqus, I’ve returned to Blogger’s built-in comment feature. The transition seems to have kept all previous comments, including those made in Disqus, and so hopefully we can carry on our conversations uninterrupted. Sorry for the confusion, if there was any! Read more

Larry Hurtado has shared a review he wrote of James Dunn’s recent book, Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence. The review is to be published in the Journal of Theological Studies and can be downloaded from the Essays etc. section of Hurtado’s web site. I’ve only had a chance to skim the review, and so I may have more to say about it once I’ve read it more closely. But I wanted to share it immediately, since it... Read more

The Disqus comments feature is now working. But the process of transferring older comments into the system will take longer, as I had to restart the process. But it seems to be working! Feel free to comment on this post and any subsequent ones for now, and hopefully comments on older posts will reappear soon. Read more

We’re still waiting for Disqus to finish the switch-over process. I’m still hoping this works. Presumably if you are reading this, then you are too. In the mean time, if you have something you really need to say, there’s always Facebook and Twitter… Read more

At the recommendation of a number of other bloggers, I’m going to try transitioning to Disqus comments. (Apologies to anyone who saw my previous post about this in a reader and tried to click through to it, as I subsequently deleted it). Apparently the process of transferring over takes a little while, and so hopefully in the near future comments will reappear and new comment and discussion options will be available. Unfortunately this means you may have to wait a... Read more

Those reading this blog from its URL may have noticed my tampering with the blog’s design, but readers subscribed to the RSS feed may not. Please do take a look at the blog directly and let me know what you think of the current format, and feel free to make suggestions (understanding that I’m under no obligation to apply them!). One reason for doing this is that the previous format didn’t allow the new share buttons to appear. And so please... Read more

Paul N. Anderson has published an article at The Bible and Interpretation entitled “A Fourth Quest for Jesus…So What, and How So?” It argues for a rethinking of the way we pursue historical study of Jesus so as to include more of the evidence from the Gospel of John. As a participant in the “John, Jesus and History” project which Paul has organized, I must confess that I disagree with Paul on this particular issue. On the one hand, when it... Read more

Gabriel McKee has posted a round-up of this season of blogging about Doctor Who at Religion Dispatches, with links to all the entries. The final installment appeared here, and starts with my own contribution, entitled “The Big Bang, Take Two.”The title of the complete entry on the finale is “Rebooting the Universe: Doctor Who part X, Season Finale” and it includes Gabriel’s contribution as well. In related news, Jim Davila shared a link about a forthcoming book on the subject of... Read more

Blogger is adding yet another new feature – share buttons added to the bottom of posts. I’ll be switching that feature on and see what happens. It doesn’t look like it has been activated yet, and when it is, I don’t know that such buttons will be added to older posts. But it is still yet another useful feature. Thanks Blogger! Read more

I just saw the movie Creation, featuring Paul Bettany as an incredibly persuasive Charles Darwin and Jennifer Connelly as his wife Emma, as well as a host of other excellent actors. The movie is not focused on his famous theory, although it is inevitably there in the background and at the margins of the story throughout. But at center stage, however, is the death of a child, the loss of faith, marital relationships, and the struggle of an entire family through... Read more