A wealth of online resources have come to my attention in recent days: Older issues of the journal Neotestamentica are available online for free. David Meadow shared materials from an epigraphy workshop. AWOL pointed out a wealth of Coptic resources, as well as a free app for taking a field trip to Corinth. Jim West shared a recording of Rudolf Bultmann speaking. Darwin's library while on the HMS Beagle is online. There are also some musical archives that have been... Read more
From Langwitches Blog. The only thing I regret is that I am sharing this without commenting on it, which is not best practice… 🙂 Of related interest, here is an idea for a classroom activity centered around the ungooglable. Read more
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I came across this image on Pinterest recently: I think the message is this: don’t be in a hurry to share what you think your faith is, or to adopt what you think is a clever slogan to represent it. Run it by people for feedback. Check your facts and calculations. Take lots of steps like those I’ve mentioned, before printing those t-shirts. Oh, and that last line should say “Do the math, people.” Use the punctuation, people! Read more
I saw the cartoon below on Facebook. Take a look at it, and then I’ll share some thoughts on it. It strikes me as ironic that the supposed skeptic is having a conversation with a fairy. But it seems to me that the supposed skeptic is being deliberately difficult. Lots of things are incorporeal – love and beauty, and not just ghosts. When people talk about energy they often mean something other than electricity. “Humanism” might not have received a... Read more
Fred Clark has a post about Tim LaHaye's latest attempt to do the opposite of clarifying the meaning of the Book of Revelation. In fact, what such authors do is, first, to either make Revelation seem more mysterious than it is, or play on and cultivate a widespread failure to make sense of the text. Then they offer claims that suggest the real meaning of the text is about their readers' time and the near future. Then they can watch... Read more
I've shared both of these before, but thought they should be circulated again, since I still hear people talking about “Biblical literalists” as though there were such people. Please be more accurate and call them selective Biblical literalists. Otherwise you give them credit for being consistent where it isn't deserved. Read more
HT Roger Wolsey’s Kissing Fish page on Facebook. Read more
HT Steve Caruso on Facebook. While our metaphysical views must inevitably differ from those of bygone eras, the nature of identity, personhood, and self continue to fascinate. Feel free to have a serious discussion, if you are so inclined, taking this non-serious cartoon as a starting point. Do you think your soul/self is in any sense recyclable? Why or why not? Read more
Fred Clark wrote the following in a post about the clobber texts for slavery: But the larger problem is this: We have concluded that some of our foremost and most influential theologians, pastors, and biblical scholars were utterly wrong about a monumentally important matter of biblical truth. Yet, because we choose not to explore why or how they were wrong, we are unable to learn from their grievous mistake. We have no way of knowing whether or not we are,... Read more
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