2015-08-17T06:04:46-04:00

Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. As people moved southward, they found papyrus in Egypt and settled there. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make paper sheets, and bind them into scrolls and books.” They used paper instead of stone, and charcoal for ink. Then they said, “Come, let us write ourselves a book, with a theology that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a religion for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see... Read more

2015-08-16T15:59:54-04:00

I just had Rainmeter drawn to my attention. How did I miss it for so long? It is a way of customizing your computer’s desktop background and making it interactive. The first thing that came to mind was obviously Star Trek’s interactive computer screens from The Next Generation onward. I mentioned a few years ago my disappointment that an iPad could not be customized to have that kind of interactive format, and pointed out that one could make a PC at... Read more

2015-08-16T06:28:15-04:00

The above cartoon by David Hayward makes a lot of useful points at once. On the one hand, it emphasizes that the Bible is the work of people writing about God, not something God wrote and dropped down from heaven. It also depicts God anthropomorphically, as three persons surprised when they find out what humans have written about them. And that in turn will be found objectionable by many who claim to adhere to a “Biblical” view of God. And yet the... Read more

2015-08-15T06:35:57-04:00

This is another instance of me taking the summary I wrote of an earlier blog post, and turning it into a meme. I have been making a point of saying something about each of my posts when I share them, and I find that sometimes the attempt to sum them up in a succinct and catchy way produces something that might be worth sharing in its own right. Read more

2015-08-14T11:28:20-04:00

Daniel Gullotta shared on his blog that he will be having a debate with mythicist David Fitzgerald. Click through for more details. I’ve blogged before about Fitzgerald’s arguments in his book Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All, as well as those found elsewhere online. Others have also tackled his claims. I am grateful to Daniel for taking the time to do this.   Read more

2015-08-14T06:18:10-04:00

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2015-08-13T21:37:11-04:00

Ironically, this cartoon came to my attention via Reddit on Facebook. Would you agree that this is how the flow of information usually works on the internet? Are you usually among the first to become aware of a meme, joke, or piece of news? Or are you typically among the last? Or somewhere in between?   Read more

2015-08-13T19:34:05-04:00

Another Straight Outta Compton Bible meme that came to my attention via Joel Watts.   Read more

2015-08-13T06:54:55-04:00

I mentioned in a recent post that I had been reading William Dever’s book, The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: When Archaeology and the Bible Intersect. That book (for which I am grateful to Eerdmans for having sent me a review copy) deserves more than just a mentioning in the context of Gen Con, and so I wanted to say a bit more about it. Dever’s book is actually something much more significant than the title may actually... Read more

2015-08-12T15:38:54-04:00

There’s a new trailer for the upcoming series of Doctor Who, which returns to TV on September 19th. Read more


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