Loren Rosson points to the online text of a lecture by Mark Nanos on Paul and the Shema. James Crossley has more Jesus in an age of terror. C.Orthodoxy presents evidence for the historical Jesus. Unorthodoxology in unintentionally inspiring doubt. Mark Goodacre continues to play the dating game. Truth and Tradition expects to find God’s Word beyond the Bible. Pharyngula points us to the story of the son of Rev. Phelps of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church. Clashing Culture looks... Read more

Just in case anyone missed the other announcements that have gone up, the latest Biblical Studies Carnival is up over at Abnormal Interests. Read more

Today in Sunday school we continued our discussion of church and state. Afterwards a church member came up and said that he saw a billboard while jogging that says “NObama” and the Bible reference Matthew 24:24. For those who may not immediately recognize it, the verse in question says: For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. This really has to stop. Supporters of both of... Read more

NT Wrong recently made a list of bibliobloggers and ranked them, and listed me as #1. I am puzzled and perplexed, honored and overwhelmed, touched, bemused, bewildered and just a tad overwhelmed! Thank you for bestowing this honor upon me! May your own blog speedily rise 14 ranks! To put this in perspective, let me clarify (1) that this ranking is based merely on site traffic, (2) may be a fluke unlikely to be repeated on any other month, and... Read more

There is a call for papers for the Metanexus conference “Cosmos, Nature, Culture: A Transdisciplinary Conference” to be held in Phoenix, Arizona, July 18 – 21, 2009. Those academics who are interested in the relationship between religion and science should definitely take a look. Read more

Stephen Law and AIG Busted continue the discussion of the historicity of Jesus (and Fred Anderson considers Robert Price on both Jesus and Superboy). Pisteuomen wants bibliobloggers to meet in Boston in November. Antiquitopia continues reading the socialist Bible. Drew Tatusko wishes you a Biblical “trick or treat”. Bible Films Blog has an entry on Ebert’s book about The Last Temptation of Christ. Bob Cornwall is all agog about dispentationalism. Use Your Head draws attention to evolution week on Teachers... Read more

Bad Astronomy points out the return of good astronomy, as Hubble comes back online and gives us this photo: Elsewhere around the blogosphere, Sandwalk responds to John Pieret about naturalism and God, while Michael Bird notes that the Carrier-O’Connell debate about the resurrection has begun online. Read more

The discussion of whether Jesus existed has spread to C.Orthodoxy. Experimental Theology discusses the existence of Hobbes. Jason explains why you should vote – especially if your name is [insert name here]. Scotteriology explains why Barack Obama should be viewed as the Lord’s anointed one. Jesus Creed discusses racism in Christian theology. NT Wrong explains his categorization of biblioblogs. Shuck and Jive highlights the usefulness of NT Wrong’s list of biblioblogs for stalking Bible scholars. Jim Davila, Claude Mariottini and... Read more

Exploring Our Matrix just passed the 200,000 visitors mark. Thank you for visiting! Read more

I’ve been having quite the interaction on this blog recently about the historical evidence for the existence of Jesus. More recently, Stephen Law has joined in and responded to me on his own blog. I know there are a lot of readers of this blog with some background in historical study including several who work on Biblical history. What do you make of the interaction thus far? When I’ve failed to persuade some of my dialogue partners, is it because... Read more