Jim West has posted a reminder that there is just a little over a week left to get submissions in to the next Biblical Studies Carnival. Read more
Jim West has posted a reminder that there is just a little over a week left to get submissions in to the next Biblical Studies Carnival. Read more
In a blog post on the Religious Studies Project website, Raphael Lataster, a postgraduate student at the University of Sydney, has suggested that there is a Christian agenda behind even the supposedly secular study of religion. And he makes that claim because of his own experience of wanting to research mythicism at university. From what little one can learn online about Lataster, he is someone who previously subscribed to the Aramaic primacy view of the New Testament. And so he... Read more
The Torchwood episode “Something Borrowed” connects with religion in two very direct ways, both related to conception. The story focuses on Gwen getting bitten by an alien not long before the day of her wedding. Unfortunately, the alien is one that inseminates the one bitten with its offspring through its bite, and as a result, Gwen ends up being pregnant on her wedding day. As she begins to freak out about it, Jack tries to reassure her. When Gwen asks... Read more
The BBC has confirmed that Doctor Who will return to screens Easter weekend, Saturday March 30th. Cartoon from The Daily Dalek Read more
If the saying is referring to Hell, Michigan, then it has already happened. In fact, the photo is from 2008, but it is not surprising that it has begun to circulate again, since I am fairly sure that Hell has frozen over this year, too… Read more
Having shared a humorous reference to Marcus Borg recently, I thought I ought to share something more serious that he actually wrote. In the image and in the text below, is an insightful statement from Borg about the problems which arise when one defines Christianity in terms of believing certain things to be true, rather than about a transformed life (HT Kissing Fish on Facebook): You can believe all the right things and still be a jerk. You can believe all... Read more
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Readers of the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog will have seen the post about how shared transcriptional errors are evidence of two texts having a common ancestor. Given that there is still resistance to the acceptance of mainstream science among some Evangelicals, I thought it appropriate to mention that the exact same reasoning is used in biology to make the case for evolution. Where there is a matching transcription error in organisms’ DNA – such as that which results in human... Read more
This wonderful gem was created by Jeff Carter: XI WHAT HE DOES NEXT Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. He pushed the door. He pushed it lightly with the tip of his finger, with a cat’s stealthy, timorous care. The door yielded to the pressure with a slight, imperceptible movement widening the opening slightly. He waited a moment, then pushed the door again more firmly. This time a poorly oiled hinge suddenly let out a harsh and prolonged creak into... Read more
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