Another quote from Fred Clark's blog Slacktivist, turned into a poster by the Facebook group Christians Against the Tea Party. Read more
Another quote from Fred Clark's blog Slacktivist, turned into a poster by the Facebook group Christians Against the Tea Party. Read more
I responded with eagerness to the invitation to be part of the Patheos Book Club about Charles E. Gutenson’s book The Right Church: Live Like the First Christians. But upon receiving a copy and seeing the subtitle, I began to have doubts – was this going to be yet another of those books that claims to offer the early Church as an ideal pattern, and ends up doing justice neither to the texts nor to the differences between ancient times... Read more
I could not find the original source of the quotation, but presume that it is somewhere on Fred Clark's blog Slacktivist. Read more
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Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the attendant of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery. A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error, for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief. Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the false. Let no one fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it; for doubt is a testing of belief. The... Read more
The conference centered on the book Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity, which is being held today and tomorrow at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, will be streaming live video of the conference. The link to the feed on their web site is: http://www.livestream.com/unitedts On Anthony LeDonne’s blog, you can find a schedule of presenters. Things start at 2pm today, but they were just testing the video and sound and it seemed to be working smoothly, and so this... Read more
Dudley Simpson, who composed music for decades of Doctor Who episodes, turns 90 years old today. Here is a sample – there is more of his music on YouTube. Read more
I reposted this image that came my way on Facebook, and it generated a significant amount of discussion. I find it interesting for a number of reasons, besides the striking illustration of the distribution of wealth in the United States. It helps make the point that, just as one cannot simply produce more land as a means of addressing the problem of allocation of space, so that everyone can have a state to themselves, the idea that wealth measured in... Read more
There definitely needs to be a Sesame Street meme that addresses Romney and his plan to cut funding for PBS (about 1/100th of 1% of the federal budget) to address budget issues. Here’s my contribution to get this started. If you make your own, please share a link in the comments section! Educators, note that Romney would also eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. Read more
There is an interview with Karen King in the Chronicle of Higher Education (HT Jim Davila). In it, she explains why she proceeded as she did, and mentions that she is looking for suggestions for a better name for the fragment. Peter Head discusses features of the papyrus fragment that have received surprisingly little attention, and discusses what their relevance is to the matter of authenticity. In related news, John Byron shared a video of Simon Gathercole talking about apocryphal Gospels,... Read more
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