Art Boulet has reprinted Peter Enns’ review of Greg Beale’s book on inerrancy. (I also reviewed it here a while back). Read more
Art Boulet has reprinted Peter Enns’ review of Greg Beale’s book on inerrancy. (I also reviewed it here a while back). Read more
I think this letter (supposed to be from Satan addressed to Pat Robertson; the actual author is Lily Coyle of Minneapolis) is worth sharing: Dear Pat Robertson, I know that you know that all press is good press, so I appreciate the shout-out. And you make God look like a big mean bully who kicks people when they are down, so I’m all over that action. But when you say that Haiti has made a pact with me, it is... Read more
It has been clear for the last few episodes why Caroline/Echo was so important, and it is nice to see that her specialness, and the notion that the use to which the technology was being put in the Dollhouse wasn’t the real purpose for which it was being developed, are now being brought to the fore. This degree of coherence isn’t surprising, perhaps. I understand that the final episode (which will air in two weeks’ time) is in one sense the... Read more
Instead of the slippery slope metaphor which is problematic in so many ways (see my previous post), how about instead we talk about our investigation of possibilities, with an openness to being educated and changing our mind, as a “dance on a volcano”? There’s even a perfect theme song: Read more
There is no slippery slope. One of the most common arguments used by “fundamentalists” (or whatever one may wish to call those who claim to accept the Bible as inerrant and that it is all to be accepted and believed) is that rejecting their view of the Bible puts one on a “slippery slope” down which one will inevitably slide to liberalism, unbelief, or whatever horrific things are said to lie at the slope’s bottom. The biggest problem with this... Read more
If you have missed Daniel Kirk’s blog Sibboleth, you’ll rejoice at this good news: he’s returned to blogging! http://storiedtheology.com/ http://jrdkirk.com/ Welcome back to the biblioblogosphere, Daniel! Read more
Today in my Religion and Science Fiction class I got students to make tests posts on the course blog. I hope that, in addition to serious substantive posts related to the course and useful links, we’ll also post relevant science fiction humor. I’m going to hold off for a while, since not everyone in the class shares my geeky sense of humor, and I don’t want to scare anyone off just yet. But for those here, who already know my... Read more
Let me join the many other SBL members who have shared this on their blogs. The Society of Biblical Literature would like as many people as possible to complete a very brief survey related to their World of the Bible website project. Here is the information about the project which was sent out: The SBL has received an NEH planning grant to develop a website, “The World of the Bible: exploring people, places, and passages.” The site is intended for... Read more
Although potentially open to criticism by geometrical literalists, this video will be considered entertaining by most others (HT Experimental Theology): If after watching you still think you prefer 3D, Phil Plait shared that there is a Hubble movie that will be released in IMAX 3D. In my Religion and Science Fiction class, I thought about what it might be like to teach in an IMAX classroom… Read more
Yesterday I joined a chorus of voices pointing out that there are Biblical texts at odds with the spirit of Pat Robertson’s blaming of the earthquake in Haiti on things the Haitians presumably had done to deserve divine retribution. My point was not to say “Pat Robertson’s view isn’t the Biblical one, this one is instead” but rather to point out the fact that Robertson is “picking and choosing,” consciously or unconsciously choosing to be guided by certain texts in... Read more