Amanda Witmer has written an article for The Bible and Interpretation about mythicism. Here’s how it begins: In some quarters it is now fashionable to argue that Jesus did not exist! At the opposite end of the spectrum we find the position that every word of the Bible is literally true and that the gospels provide us with an unfiltered historical account of Jesus’ life. This is a false dichotomy rooted in our human tendency to insist on absolutes and true... Read more
Butler University issues a press release yesterday about an upcoming event: Butler University and Christian Theological Seminary (CTS) are honored to welcome Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, to Butler’s Clowes Memorial Hall for a public address at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 12. Generous support for this event is provided by The Dungy Family Foundation.The lecture is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Ticket distribution to the public will begin at 10... Read more
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Having mentioned an amusing stick family sticker for one’s car earlier today, I thought I’d track down and share one that I really liked when I saw it on a car on the road a while back. Familiar-looking stick people, plus Glornak the Destroyer. Read more
Via Fred Clark, I learned of the wonderful blog Defeating the Dragons, offering one person’s experience of leaving fundamentalism behind. Here is an excerpt from a recent post there: It never fails to utterly astonish me that, even with all of my familiarity, even with all the Sword Drills and the Memorization Contests and AWANA and the constant stream of “the Bible says…” that I really had no idea what it actually says. And I’ve read it as least half a dozen... Read more
I stopped by to play the piano in front of Central Library in downtown Indianapolis today, and one of the librarians came out and took my picture and recorded a little bit. It is now on their web site. You can learn more about the “Go Ahead and Play” project, and the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana which sponsors it, on their web site. The best part was that a passerby heard me playing and singing “The Way It Is”... Read more
John Kerry Would Major in Comparative Religion John Kerry said in a recent speech that, if he went back to college today, he would probably major in comparative religion: Click through to hear the entire talk on C-SPAN. Read more
I guess I just wasn’t predestined to be a Calvinist. It isn’t that I didn’t try. In my teens, I encountered some very staunch Calvinists who persuaded me that God didn’t simply foreknow everything, but foreordained it. Nothing was outside of God’s sovereignty, nor could anything thwart the divine will. But however much I thought that, I could not live it. I found myself, ironically, worried about which of two routes I should take when going somewhere. What if God... Read more
You can buy these on Amazon, but a friend suggested that they ought to be on sale at the Creation Museum. Your Stick Family Was Delicious T-Rex – Vinyl Decal Sticker Read more
Matthew Montonini has launched the Raymond E. Brown Website, with articles by Brown, videos of him speaking, and other contents offered as a tribute to this great New Testament scholar. Read more
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