Via WQXR, I learned that Zach de Pue and Nick Kendall of Time for Three were forced to leave a flight they were booked on because they correctly insisted that they had the right to take their violins with them onto the plane. Watch the video above, which has more than 80,000 views already, to see how they responded, and click through to read an article with more information. If you’re a musician, or a music lover, you might want... Read more
Jeff Carter will be hosting the next Biblical Studies Carnival. Let him know of posts related to the academic study of the Bible that you think deserve to be included! Read more
I noticed the image on a post on Chet Raymo’s Science Musings Blog, “Heaven in the Ordinary,” had a quote from the Nag Hammadi text The Treatise on the Resurrection, and so I thought I should pass it on. The paragraph from which the words are taken reads as follows: The Savior swallowed up death – (of this) you are not reckoned as being ignorant – for he put aside the world which is perishing. He transformed himself into an... Read more
Last week I visited the Church of the Nativity with students. Then the pope visited. Now it seems that there has been a minor fire there, which started when a candle tipped over and ignited a curtain. I mention this for a number of reasons, one of which is that I have seen some photos circulating which (given the date on them) may be from the past and not connected with this recent fire (see the end of this post... Read more
Yesterday in Sunday school, someone suggested that Paul in Athens, as described in Acts 17, had tried to reach people by adapting his message to his audience, and being philosophical and rational in his approach. The result, the person claimed, was disappointingly ineffective, and so Paul never did it again. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard this suggested. But it is such utter nonsense that I had to say something on the spot, and want to discuss it here... Read more
The quote comes from a post I wrote in 2009, “Without Fear and Trembling.” Read more
The quote comes from my 2009 post, “Without Fear and Trembling.” Read more
The bloggers at Two Friars and a Fool have written a book, Never Pray Again: Lift Your Head, Unfold Your Hands, and Get To Work, and I was invited to participate in a blog tour about it. See their interview with Carol Howard Merritt for more general information about the book, as well as the publisher’s website. The chapter I was asked to blog about is “Expel!” The authors suggest that most readers no longer live in a “demon-haunted world”... Read more
Morgan Guyton has proposed “Klingon Christians” as a better designation for the Gospel Coalition's brand of conservative Christianity than other labels. I think that the association is deeply offensive…to Klingons. Guyton's point, building on observations by Pete Enns, is that this is a brand of warrior Christianity. And that is an unimportant point to make, as one of the appealing aspects of conservative born-again Christianity is the notion that everyday life is a battlefield of the forces between good and... Read more
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