{"id":142,"date":"2011-04-21T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/the-bible-and-related-topics-around-the-blogosphere\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T11:25:00","slug":"the-bible-and-related-topics-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/the-bible-and-related-topics-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bible and Related Topics Around the Blogosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2011\/04\/21\/throwing-the-bible-under-the-bus-rjs\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Jesus+Creed%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">At Jesus Creed, RJS takes on some recent statements from Al Mohler<\/a>. There are some points at which a recent series on <a href=\"http:\/\/biologos.org\/blog\/christianity-and-science-in-historical-perspective-part-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BioLogos<\/a> also seems relevant to that exchange.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebiblicalworld.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/new-report-suggests-that-americans-are.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Byron<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2011\/04\/20\/barna-on-universalism\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PatheosJesusCreed+%28Jesus+Creed%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Scot McKnight<\/a> talk about the tendency towards universalism in our time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwyo.edu\/uw\/news\/2011\/04\/uw-religion-today-column-for-april-24-30-the-burial-box-of-james-the-brother-of-jesus-10-years-on.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Flesher comments on the James Ossuary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equinoxjournals.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/caseys-jesus-5-son-of-man\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReligionBulletin+%28Religion+Bulletin%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Deane Galbraith continues his review of Maurice Casey\u2019s book<\/a>, focusing here on whether Jesus thought of himself as the son of man.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Cortez talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/westernthm.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/21\/the-messianic-secret-early-fabrication-or-historical-reality\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Messianic Secret<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The latest <a href=\"http:\/\/ntweblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/passion-podcasts-2-horror-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MarkGoodacresNTBlog+%28Mark+Goodacre%27s+NT+Blog%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NT Pod is on the horror of crucifixion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/easter-under-attack\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JesusNeedsNewPr+%28JESUS+NEEDS+NEW+PR%3A+The+blog+of+author+Matthew+Paul+Turner%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matthew Paul Turner<\/a>, Stephen Colbert on the attack on Easter and the Biblical verses supporting Easter-egg hunts. <\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px\">\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/382015\/april-14-2011\/easter-under-attack---egg-edition\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/b><br>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/full-episodes\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Political Humor &amp; Satire Blog<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/video\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Video Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1176448555331598498?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Jesus Creed, RJS takes on some recent statements from Al Mohler. There are some points at which a recent series on BioLogos also seems relevant to that exchange. John Byron and Scot McKnight talk about the tendency towards universalism in our time. Paul Flesher comments on the James Ossuary. Deane Galbraith continues his review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Bible and Related Topics Around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At Jesus Creed, RJS takes on some recent statements from Al Mohler. 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