Some of you may have managed to watch live video of the conference “Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity” over the last two days. And you may read the book. Either way, you may want to take a look at Joel Watts’ and Mark Goodacre’s blogs, since they live-blogged the conference while in attendance, and other scholars’ blogs who attended and posted about it soon after its conclusion. Here are the links: Mark Goodacre liveblogging day 1 Mark Goodacre... Read more
A Facebook friend made the image above and shared it in the Facebook group Celebrating Evolving Creation. What do you think of it? It seems to me to encapsulate nicely the idea emphasized in Karl Giberson's book, Seven Glorious Days, about evolution having reached a stage where it has brought love into existence. But I confess that I can't hear the phrase “spiritual evolution” without thinking of the Level 42 song “World Machine”… Read more
Phil Plait shared several links related to Doctor Who and religion – from this video on the PBS Idea Channel, asking “Is Doctor Who a Religion?”… …to this comic at Home on the Strange about a Whovian responding to a door-to-door evangelist: 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
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