Via Troy Avery on Facebook, I became aware of the above recording of a presentation by William Dever (a graduate of Butler University!) delivered at the University of California San Diego conference “Out of Egypt: Israel’s Exodus Between Text and Memory, History and Imagination.” Read more
Today was the first day that the two traditional-format classes that I am teaching this semester met. Last night I had a dream that I was in front of a class on the first day. It was my class on the Bible, which I am not teaching this semester. It had almost slipped my mind to show a video clip that I normally use, and try as I might to bring it onto the screen now, everything seemed to be... Read more
Michael Ruse famously asked the opposite, whether a Darwinian can be a Christian. But the opposite question is the real pressing issue. Here is what I wrote in a comment on Michael Kruger’s blog: I don’t think that any view which misrepresents evidence the way young-earth creationism and Intelligent Design do is compatible with the moral teachings of Christianity. If you reject the clear teaching of Jesus about truth in order to defend that ancient human beings were somehow prescient... Read more
From The ‘Lighter’ Side of the Force Read more
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
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