Bible Secrets Revealed

Last updated on: October 29, 2013 at 6:20 pm By James F. McGrath

Bob Cargill shared the following about a documentary which, unless all the footage ended up on the cutting room floor, I will be in: I’m pleased to announce that a new documentary series will begin airing on History beginning Monday, November 11, 2013 at 10:00pm / 9:00 Central. The series is entitled, Bible Secrets Revealed, and is produced by Prometheus Entertainment for the History channel. The titles of the six episodes and their schedule of appearance are as follows: “Lost in Translation” – November 11, 2013 “The Promised Land” –... Read more

Islam and Freedom of Expression

Last updated on: October 29, 2013 at 10:42 am By James F. McGrath

Here is the video of the second public lecture in this year’s series on religion and freedom of expression. This one focuses on Islam, and the three speakers are Saba Mahmood, Peter Gottschalk, and Sholeh Shahrokhi. Read more

The Bible Says

Last updated on: October 29, 2013 at 10:19 am By James F. McGrath

David Hayward’s latest cartoon makes a good point. People have justified all sorts of contradictory things from the Bible – from their faith to their atheism, from their right-wing politics to their left-wing economics, from their violence against others to their pacifism. What are the implications of recognizing this and taking it seriously? At the very least, no one should think that because their worldview is bolstered by many repetitions of the phrase “the Bible says,” that therefore the Bible... Read more

Book Burning Unnecessary

Last updated on: October 29, 2013 at 7:28 am By James F. McGrath

There were some interesting responses to a post I shared recently with a church sign advertising a book burning session (for members only). One commenter asked about the burning of books in the kingdom of God. I found the question profoundly ironic, since the only people I can imagine finding the question meaningful, or answerable, are people who are sure that no one who will enter the kingdom of God would ever under any circumstances read those sort of books... Read more

Is God an Economist?

Last updated on: October 28, 2013 at 6:28 pm By James F. McGrath

First, here’s a cartoon from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Now, let’s note what the cartoon doesn’t show. At the end of the Book of Job, Job receives back double of every type of property he owned. But he only receives the same number of children as he previously had. I suspect that, if anything, this shows that the author of the Book of Job was aware that children are not replaceable – sorry, not a fungible commodity – in the way... Read more

The Godless Meteorological Conspiracy

Last updated on: October 28, 2013 at 9:46 am By James F. McGrath

Pete Enns linked to a blog post that makes a point I’ve often made here. If you are going to oppose evolution on the grounds that it embraces naturalism, then by golly you’ve got to really get upset about meteorology. It is secular, fundamentally opposed to Biblical teaching, and on the television 24/7. After summarizing the Biblical teaching on the subject, Heather Goodman writes: Now some might say that storehouses for snow and hail are just some sort of poetic... Read more

Putting Your Clocks Back

Last updated on: October 27, 2013 at 3:13 pm By James F. McGrath

This gem came my way on Facebook today. It will be useful to people in Europe today and people in North America next Sunday. Read more

Jesus was NOT a Zombie

Last updated on: October 27, 2013 at 7:44 am By James F. McGrath

Jeremy Smith wants to make sure that, if you are a nerd who is inclined to be sacrilegious as the Halloween season draws near (or at Easter, for that matter), you at least do it accurately. And so he shared this: Now, in case you are wondering, I don't think that Jesus was a Lich. Or a zombie. Or a ghost. Or any of the other options on the list above. What I do think is that, far from dismissing... Read more

Sunny Fields

Last updated on: October 26, 2013 at 3:38 pm By James F. McGrath

Sunčana polja by Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa. And in case that isn’t enough, here’s the second movement, “Idyll,” from his Tragic Symphony: Read more

Andrew Crome on 50 Years of Doctor Who

Last updated on: October 26, 2013 at 12:04 pm By James F. McGrath

On the DLT website there is now another piece by Andrew Crome, co-editor of and contributor to Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who, which is due out next week and already selling very well on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. Click through to browse the entire Darton, Longman, and Todd online magazine, to read both Andrew’s pieces and see what else is there! Read more

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