From the ancient to the modern. Here’s one of today’s great choral composers, Eric Whitacre, for your enjoyment. The choice of Biblical text for setting is interesting – I’m not sure I’ve ever heard another setting of this particular text. Read more
From the ancient to the modern. Here’s one of today’s great choral composers, Eric Whitacre, for your enjoyment. The choice of Biblical text for setting is interesting – I’m not sure I’ve ever heard another setting of this particular text. Read more
A lot of people are responding to comments by people such as Pat Robertson and John Piper about recent tornados causing devastation in Indiana and elsewhere. Many are atheist and similar blogs, such as Hemant Mehta, A God-Sized Puzzle, Atheist Revolution and Skeptic. Fortunately some Christian blogs, such as Matthew Paul Turner, Internet Monk, and Bo Sanders offer criticisms of these folks from a Christian perspective, so that it does not seem like merely outsiders who criticize the theological devastation... Read more
From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, via John Wilkins. See also this video of a visit to the Creation Museum, shared by the British Center for Science Education: Read more
Here’s a round-up of the latest blogging about the Talpiot tomb and related topics on other blogs. Let me begin with Daniel Mănăstireanuţs blog review of my book The Burial of Jesus, which he said grabbed his interest for multiple reasons, including the current media attention to the Talpiot tombs. Christopher Rollston points out the lack of evidence for any connection between the Talpiot tombs and Joseph of Arimathea. Jim West shared evidence that his family still lives in the... Read more
In my book The Burial of Jesus: What Does History Have to Do with Faith?, I discuss the likelihood that after being crucified, Jesus was buried in a tomb located near the execution site which was dedicated to the entombment of criminals executed there. This implies that, while it may or may not be the case that women went to the tomb early the following Sunday morning and found Jesus’ body to no longer be in it, talk of an... Read more
The student who presented in my historical Jesus class on the twelve disciples mentioned that disciples – i.e. apprentices or students – were normally younger people. We tend to think of Jesus’ disciples as older, but the possibility that they may have been teenagers was drawn to mind by a humorous video Mark Goodacre shared (which in turn was sparked by something I posted about the aforementioned meeting of my class on the historical Jesus): Well, that certainly explains why... Read more
“The Chase” is the episode of Doctor Who which saw the departure of the remaining two of the original companions from the show’s beginning, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. In a very real sense, they were the main characters of the show, and the Doctor was a mysterious figure who had whisked them away for interplanetary and time-traveling adventures. Here’s a video clip of the farewell, when the Doctor reluctantly agrees to help Ian and Barbara use a Dalek time... Read more
I found this online while looking for something else. It definitely sits at the intersection of religion and science fiction: Someone added the comment: And now abideth anger, fear, aggression, these three; but the greatest of these is anger. Darth Jesus can feel your anger. He wants to give you focus and make you stronger. All Darth Jesus asks is that you strike him down with all of your hatred, and your journey toward his side will be complete. Personally... Read more
A piece I wrote, expanding on my thoughts about the relationship between the recent claims regarding the Talpiot tombs on the one hand, and New Testament historical criticism on the other, has appeared on the ASOR blog. Click through to read it. Read more
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