A friend shared this on Facebook. Discuss! Read more
A friend shared this on Facebook. Discuss! Read more
Brian LePort and then Claude Mariottini asked whether biblioblogs are dying. No, they aren't. Of course, Brian went on to ask the question in a manner more focused on blogs about the Bible run by laypeople and students. With more professors and professionals blogging, there may well be a decline in interest in some biblioblogs. But that would not represent the death of biblioblogs in general. And I suspect that, as long as someone has interesting things to say and... Read more
It has been too long since I last blogged about a classic Doctor Who episode. In rewatching the Jon Pertwee era, a while back I reached “Frontier in Space,” which actually ends its final part with a cliffhanger, in which the Doctor has been injured and sends a telepathic message to the time lords, leading then into the next episode, “Planet of the Daleks.” The story focuses on tensions between the empires of Earth and Draconia. There have been attacks... Read more
I wrote this in a comment in a discussion group on Facebook, and thought it might be worth sharing beyond that context. Choosing to believe that the Biblical texts are inerrant truth, all written by whom they claim to be, and even that God is really their author, and then treating any evidence to the contrary in a dubious denialist manner, is nowhere said to be the basis for God judging human beings favorably. Read more
Hemant Mehta shared the above image from a counter-protest to Westboro Baptist Church's protest at a Lorde concert. That is what it means to counter-protest. Responding to hate with hate is simply joining in the hatred, not objecting to it. To take a stand against hatred, your words and actions need to express the opposite of hatred. Read more
Two posts that appeared yesterday on blogs I read seemed to me to converge on a common point, albeit from opposite sides. First, Fred Clark offered a post about American Evangelicalism’s demonization of others (both real and imagined) so as to bolster its own goodness. At the end, after quoting C. S. Lewis, he writes: American evangelicalism has been reshaped and redefined as precisely the thing that Lewis warned against — a never-ending quest for “the sheer pleasure of thinking... Read more
I've heard it suggested on more than one occasion that heaven and hell are the same place, and the difference is the attitude of the individual to the experiences and surroundings there. This cartoon, which was shared by Kissing Fish on Facebook, seems to envisage something along those lines. Although you have to wonder what Adam and Steve did that was so terrible that their punishment is having Fred Phelps as a roommate… Read more
One of the comments on this image on Facebook was “I feel the need…the need for creed.” What other Top Gun allusions can you think of that might fit this photo of sideways church, which does indeed look (with some help from Photoshop, of course) like a military fighter jet? Read more
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