slavery

January 2023

January 16, 2023
I have been meaning to write this post ever since I read New Testament scholar...

July 2020

July 29, 2020
Eric Metaxas tweeted the following and it is getting a lot of attention: The main...

June 2020

June 13, 2020
I was profoundly disturbed to see someone I know share a post on social media...

March 2020

March 11, 2020
There is a narrower as well as a broader sense in which the statement in...

December 2018

December 14, 2018
I have such a great appreciation for Neil Carter. Although he is no longer a...
December 01, 2018
An effort to be consistently literal in one's interpretation of the Bible leads to absurdities....

July 2018

July 30, 2018
Via both Ancient World Online (AWOL) and the Biblical Studies Blog, I learned about the Open Access Digital...

May 2018

May 08, 2018
It is ironic that some have treated the TV show The Handmaid's Tale as anti-religious,...

March 2018

March 07, 2018
I love teaching my course on the Bible and music! In the class period dedicated...

May 2017

May 30, 2017
The episode begins with the Secretary General of the UN coming to Bill Potts looking...

April 2017

April 29, 2017
The Doctor and Bill land in London 1814, and the episode starts with lots of...

March 2016

March 04, 2016
Rachel Held Evans wrote in a recent blog post: It’s easy to comfort ourselves with...

November 2015

November 01, 2015
Inerrancy is only ever used to defend sin, whether that sin happens to be the...

October 2015

October 07, 2015
The quote comes from Fred Clark's recent post, "How to understand 'Biblical inerrantists.'" Here is...

April 2015

April 21, 2015
The quote comes from my recent post "Marriage is Sacred." The point is one that...

February 2015

February 17, 2015
The quote comes from the post "Correction" which appeared here on February 13th.

July 2014

July 14, 2014
Fred Clark wrote the following in a post about the clobber texts for slavery: But...
July 02, 2014
Via John Loftus, I became aware of this list of ten commandments which Valerie Tarico...

February 2014

February 12, 2014
Fred Clark posted about young-earth creationism's approach to the Bible and its historical connection to...

September 2013

September 18, 2013
Fred Clark has posted about Evangelical defenders of slavery and what their stance in a...

August 2013

August 25, 2013
This cartoon came my way on Facebook today: While it is just a bit of...

April 2013

April 09, 2013
HT Hemant Mehta. If you find those videos of interest, you may also be interested...

March 2013

March 30, 2013
I've made this point before (see especially my article for Religion Dispatches from 2008). But...

February 2013

February 23, 2013
I read the words below in an article in today's New York Times about the...
February 07, 2013
Ovid Butler was born on this day in 1801. Among the things that he did...

October 2012

October 10, 2012
It is useful to discuss what is going on with Christopher Rollston at Emmanuel Christian...

August 2012

August 02, 2012
A lot of people have brought up "freedom of speech" and related phrases in discussion...

February 2012

February 21, 2012
Various news outlets are reporting that the Southern Baptist Convention stopped short of voting for...

September 2011

September 22, 2011
As Jim West, Hemant Mehta and Claude Mariottini have noted, the Southern Baptist Convention is...

July 2011

July 15, 2011
Take a look at this post by Crystal St. Marie Lewis, offering parallel fictional depictions...
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