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
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
There is a statue/bust in my church, which seems to have been there since before anyone currently in the church can remember. Anyone have any idea who it is of? Read more
The most shocking verse in the Epistle to the Hebrews? No, I’m not referring to that verse near the end of the epistle where the author, apparently seriously, refers to having written “briefly.” I’m referring to Hebrews 10:19, which says “we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place.” I don’t think that Christians today, familiar with the fact that the author referring to the celestial “Holy of Holies,” are likely to be as jolted by this phrase in the way... Read more
Frank Viola shared this image: Although there is nothing wrong with asking what someone we admire would do in a particular situation, ultimately we either admire someone because we share their ideals and find inspiration in them, or because we can project our own ideals onto them. And so we really are asking not “What would Jesus do?” but “As the person I am, with the values I have, considering myself a follower of Jesus, what should I do in... Read more
As several bloggers have already noted, Ray Comfort’s new movie, which deceitfully edits what scientists and even random bystanders have to say in order to deceive people about science, is now on YouTube: Use the comments section to discuss the lies, errors, and anything else that is wrong with the contents! I’ll get the ball rolling: when even the blog Uncommon Descent thinks you’re unfairly editing, it is really bad. Your turn. Read more
It saddens me to realize that some may see David Hayward's latest cartoon and think that what it depicts, having a head filled only with a Bible, is a good thing. But to think that is to demean the Creator, suggesting that the fact that we have brains which can discern and reason, if we learn how to use them properly, is a flaw, and we were meant to be mindless automatons parrotting Scripture. In fact, anyone who simply quotes... Read more
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel set in the near future, The Year of the Flood, said this about the internet, and I thought it deserved to be shared (p.293): And the Internet was such a jumble of false and true factoids that no one believed what was on it any more, or else they believed all of it, which amounted to the same thing. And that, my friends, is why I think information literacy is so important. The alternative is a dystopian... Read more
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