I wanted to check Snopes.com about a piece of e-mail Ben Witherington mentioned, but ironically, I could find an entry about it on Snopes… Read more
I wanted to check Snopes.com about a piece of e-mail Ben Witherington mentioned, but ironically, I could find an entry about it on Snopes… Read more
I love Romanian Christmas music, and particularly love the Bucharest Madrigal Choir’s performance of them, and my favorite of all is O Ce Veste Minunata: Here are a couple of other gems of Romanian Christmas music performed by the Bucharest Madrigal Choir: Read more
Since a commenter mentioned NT Wrong, I thought I ought to comment on what I think the new NT Wrong franchise represents, having quite possibly been involved in inspiring it. I think it is to the original NT Wrong what the Pastoral Epistles and other such pseudepigraphal works are to the authentic Pauline corpus – except that in this case the author of the original works is himself pseudonymous. I view the new blog as a tribute to a hero... Read more
What are we to do? Dollhouse keeps getting better and better, and it has been cancelled! I’m starting to wonder whether having a clear end-date for a show makes it better, keeps it focused, keeps the momentum going and helps to avoid aimless wandering? Maybe every show should have a “best before” date by which it has to wrap up major threads? If it gets a renewal, then it can allow some unsolved mystery to continue. But shows always have... Read more
F. Seitz, Concerto No.2, 3rd movement (the first piece in Suzuki Violin Book 4) performed by my son accompanied by me on the piano. Read more
N(o)T Wrong has chimed in on the topic of the place of Jesus’ birth. Read more
Rick Sumner has posted a response to my post and the nativity stories. Although he makes general statements about Luke’s creativity and use of sources which are certainly true, it isn’t clear to me that he actually comes up with a plausible scenario for Luke’s compositional activity which involves use of Matthew’s infancy story to create his own. And although motive may be a matter of speculation, surely it raises difficulties for a case (whether about use of sources or... Read more
“NT Wrong” offered an interesting response to my post about God, projection and our values. Although the points made there are important, I think that it is indeed possible to love a God who is infinite and ineffable. Scientists who love reality and love discovering even a tiny fraction more about reality are doing much the same thing. When Tillichians and others with similar theological views talk about God as “Being itself” one could just as readily say “Reality itself.”... Read more
The National Center for Science Education made this available on their YouTube channel. Read more
Having linked to some class notes of mine about the nativity stories in Matthew and Luke, I realized that they do not focus on one of the key contradictions between the two, namely the divergent geographical and temporal movements in the two stories. Sure, there is the problem of the date (Quirinius’ census vs. before the death of Herod the Great), but there is more to the issue than that. Let’s begin with Matthew’s Gospel. The first location specified where... Read more
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