At the recent “Kingdom Builders” retreat that my church (Crooked Creek Baptist Church) held, it had a LEGO theme. They recreated stories from the Bible with LEGOs, and videoed them. Here is the first one, depicting the story of the Gerasene demoniac: I agree with my pastor, Tom Bartley, that they deserve special praise for the creepy Legion voice. And I also like how they solved the problem of not having 2,000 pink LEGOs to represent the herd of pigs.... Read more
In a recent post I mentioned Jesus' statement (recorded in Mark 2:27) about the Sabbath being made for human beings, not vice versa. A commenter asked about the omission of this statement from the other Gospels, and I thought the subject deserved a follow-up post of its own. The other Gospels omit that element from Mark, and in so doing turn the rest of the saying into a Christological one, meaning Jesus the Son of Man is Lord of the... Read more
HT Homebrewed Christianity. I still think Timothy Michael Law’s parody was funnier. Read more
Someone using the zip line, a new attraction at the Creation Museum, was struck by lightning. I checked the source, and it isn’t The Onion. Surely, if the core belief of Answers in Genesis is true, namely that removing God from so-called natural phenomena by appealing to scientific explanations is inappropriate, then God is displeased with the Creation Museum. Or with their introduction of a zip line, in an attempt to pander to people to get them through the doors.... Read more
Josh Mann has been conducting and posting interviews with Biblical scholars who blog, and the latest one is the interview that I did. Previously he interviewed Peter Head, Peter Enns, Chris Keith, Nijay Gupta, Stephen Carlson, Mark Goodacre (twice), Scot McKnight, Anthony LeDonne, Mike Bird, Jim West, and Ben Witherington. Also relevant to academic biblioblogging, the last call for submissions for the next Biblical Studies Carnival has been issued. And elsewhere in the biblioblogosphere, Larry Hurtado contemplated the future of... Read more
I came across this a while back and have been meaning to share it. Finding Waldo twice over at GenCon, when I wasn't even looking for Waldo, reminded me to do so. I found some minimal information about the illustration (which is by Josh Mecouch, a cartoonist for MAD Magazine), and the tweet by Saragh Adams that inspired it, here. Read more
I saw this image on Facebook recently: While some object that there aren’t really people who engage in scientism and reductionism, that it is a caricature, clearly whoever made this image thinks that love and oxytocin are equivalent in some respect – although what in fact the heart represents is itself open to discussion, I suppose. But at any rate, I do think that there is a danger to fail to do justice to different levels of reality. Understanding how... Read more
On a recent trip to Chicago, when I unfortunately found myself stuck in rush-hour traffic that would add more than an additional hour to my journey, I did what anyone in my situation would do. I pressed “play” on a Doctor Who audiobook. I had heard good things about the Eighth Doctor adventures from Big Finish. And so I started with “Storm Warning,” the first of those. I liked very much the character of the Doctor as depicted by Paul... Read more
An interesting video on income and wealth inequality from The Atlantic. HT Timothy Michael Law Read more
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