Via Mrs. Betty Bowers on Facebook. This is a new version of something of hers that I shared a couple of years ago. Â Â Read more
Via Mrs. Betty Bowers on Facebook. This is a new version of something of hers that I shared a couple of years ago. Â Â Read more
Via Jim Davila I learned that Harvard Magazine has an article which explains why announcing the results of the scientific dating of the fragment known as the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife took so long, and what the outcome is at the end of that process. Larry Hurtado also mentioned the breaking news, with links to the Harvard Divinity School website and from there to the relevant articles in the latest issue of Harvard Theological Review. Apparently the second attempt at... Read more
Yesterday the information literacy video I made almost a year ago reached 10,000 views on YouTube. Thank you to everyone who has watched and/or shared it. It seems as though I ought to do something more to mark the occasion. Is it time for another educational musical parody? What about a song about footnotes and references, called “Cited Work” – to the tune of Katy Perry’s “Firework”? Read more
Allan Bevere shared the above image on Facebook. It certainly reflects a popular stereotype many conservatives have of liberal churches. But when one looks closely at such claims, a paradox emerges. Supposedly, liberal churches are pandering to the world for the sake of popularity. And yet liberal churches do not seem to be distinctively popular, and indeed, are often unpopular, both from the perspective of the non-Christian world, and from the perspective of the conservative churches. One could make a... Read more
I spotted the above online. I'm not entirely sure what it means. But it connects Star Wars and Christianity, and indicates that there may be more than two options, unlike the impression most debates give. And so I thought I would share it! Â Â Read more
First, the funny part. In an earlier version of the announcement on my church website about Holy Week events, it said of the lunchtime Good Friday service: The theme for the service will focus on the stations of the cross and will feature medications from several local pastors. If you are not sure why that is funny, please reread it carefully, and compare it with the final version. On a somber note, Crooked Creek Baptist Church will be hosting the... Read more
Torrey Seland drew attention to the website http://books.logos.com, where books (mostly on the Bible and theology) that they have scanned but not yet made available through the Logos app are available. I did a search for “Mandaean” and it turned up interesting results. Take a look and explore whatever interests you!   Read more
A talk offering visualizations of ancient cosmologies came to my attention. I will embed the first part below, but click through to see the rest, including the slides posted separately. IO9 (among others) raised the question once again of how some top-notch physicists – and a starship captain! – came to be involved in a documentary arguing in favor of geocentrism. IO9 also posted about Cosmos and light. Religion Dispatches clarified that it is Biblicism – one’s stated view about... Read more
I haven’t even managed to start reading Bart Ehrman’s most recent book, How Jesus Became God. But others have been doing so, and blogging about it. And so to tide you over until I get to it, here are some posts I am aware of elsewhere: Greg Monette got me excited by pointing out that Ehrman discusses a subject that is of great interest to me, the burial of Jesus. See Bart Ehrman’s own blog post about the women at... Read more
HT Jeff Carter   Read more
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