I came across this cartoon some time ago: It is worth reposting at the start of a new semester. We call them “disciples” but they were basically students. And as hard as an educator might try to explain things, students still ask questions like this one. Let me try once again to explain why the question is such a frustrating one from our perspective. Education is not about being given a set of information which you know you will need... Read more
OK, so the above video of a rabbit herding sheep alpacas sheep, having watched the dog and learned to do it, is just awesome. And so too is this story about a 96-year-old songwriter who wrote a song for his late wife. We will not always achieve what we try to. But that is not a good reason not to try. And yes, you do know that phrase from the title of this post from somewhere… Read more
Swedish composer Jan Carlstaedt’s Symphony No. 2, “A Symphony of Brotherhood,” was completed in 1968, and was in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more
Indeed, I’ve made the case here more than once for Jesus having interpreted Genesis 2 in a decidedly non-literal fashion, as the story itself indicates it ought to be understood. Read more
Several people have asked for a copy of the reading list for my class on religion and science fiction, and so I am making a copy of the syllabus available here. I have also added a link to a plainer version of it on the page I created some years ago for the course, even though I do not have time to maintain that site any longer. Read more
Thanks to Joel Watts for making me aware of this dramatization of a famous discussion between J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, one that was instrumental in the conversion of the latter to Christianity. Read more
Acts 7:48 literally says “the Most High does not dwell in that which is hand-made.” Often a word like “temples” is added to make the sense clearer. But the statement itself is broader, and was a typical term used to refer to idols. The statement seems to me to apply as much to Bibles as to buildings and statues. Human beings thought the words, uttered them, and wrote them down. Human beings copied them, compiled them, and decided which ones... Read more
Today is the first day of classes at Butler University, and so a meme image seemed an appropriate way to mark the occasion. Read more
Via Brad Matthies on Twitter. And meanwhile, in the freezer, this was happening: Read more
I responded to a comment on a recent post about the historical Jesus, and thought I’d share what I wrote in a separate post, to see if it generates more discussion. There is a common misunderstanding about the plurality of “Jesuses.” This simply shows that there are a lot of people working in the field – nothing more. When a field of history is vibrant, scholars, needing to come up with something new and worthy of publication, will try to... Read more
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