Here is another video from the retreat that I mentioned in an earlier post: Sharing the earlier one led someone to draw another LEGO parable to my attention, the Parable of the Sower: And I also learned that one has to be careful when bringing LEGOs to church. Read more
Eric Cline has made the case that an earthquake storm in the Eastern Mediterranean region and Anatolia may have created the context in which early Israel emerged, as the resulting cutting of trade routes and system collapse brought about the demise of Canaanite civilization – and others – as they had existed up to this point. Today on Archaeology Briefs, I saw an article which suggests that a severe drought occurred in the same period. The early Israelite settlements studied... Read more
Dale Tuggy, who teaches at SUNY Fredonia, left a comment here recently, pointing out the presence online of an article he wrote critically evaluating Richard Bauckham’s notion of “divine identity.” In the process, I discovered a blog called Trinities, to which Tuggy is a contributor. It really does explore the doctrines of divine threeness and oneness in all its aspects – including sharing Unitarian worship music. I confess I didn’t know there was such a thing until now! Read more
It was a longstanding gap in my reading of science fiction literature that I had never read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. With my religion and science fiction class soon to begin, and Ender’s Game being turned into a movie, I knew it was time to rectify things. I already owned a copy, and so it was just a matter of doing it (but I should mention that buy the book for Kindle on Amazon for less than $4). I won’t... Read more
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
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