{"id":3233,"date":"2008-12-12T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/around-the-blogosphere-15\/"},"modified":"2008-12-12T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T09:10:00","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/around-the-blogosphere-15.html","title":{"rendered":"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>At the top of the list must go <a href=\"http:\/\/ntgateway.com\/weblog\/2008\/12\/accessing-early-christian-writings-and.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Goodacre\u2019s post<\/a> about the failure of the sites <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060131092132\/http:\/\/www.earlychristianwritings.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Early Christian Writings<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070611063719\/http:\/\/www.earlyjewishwritings.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Early Jewish Writings<\/a> to rise from the dead. Fortunately the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060131092132\/http:\/\/www.earlychristianwritings.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">internet archive<\/a> comes to the rescue, as usual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2008\/12\/the-newsweek-same-sex-marriage.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Jones<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/revfreda.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/newsweek-religious-case-for-gay.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fred Anderson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bible.org\/bock\/node\/439\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daryll Bock<\/a> are among those who\u2019ve reacted (in very different ways) to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/172653\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Newsweek article<\/a> on the Bible and gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>John Pieret looks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/thinking-design.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">psychology behind Intelligent Design<\/a>. John Wilkins blogs about <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/evolvingthoughts\/2008\/12\/teacher_theres_a_god_in_my_evo.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">finding a god in one\u2019s evolutionary soup<\/a>. New Scientist has a piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn16258-how-to-stop-creationism-gaining-a-hold-in-islam.html?full=true\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">creationism in the Islamic world<\/a>. Chet Raymo has a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemusings.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/exotheology.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">exotheology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Homebrewed Christianity has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/trippfuller.com\/?p=445\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christmas picture and caption<\/a>. NT Wrong offers <a href=\"http:\/\/ntwrong.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/11\/anti-israel-christmas-carols\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">updated Christmas carols<\/a>, while also explaining how a <a href=\"http:\/\/ntwrong.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/12\/breaking-wind-from-your-ass\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">fart joke<\/a> made it into an English Bible translation. Sound and Silence says <a href=\"http:\/\/soundandsilence.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/12\/so-long-sola\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">so long to Sola Scriptura<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8234954411514164227?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the top of the list must go Mark Goodacre\u2019s post about the failure of the sites Early Christian Writings and Early Jewish Writings to rise from the dead. Fortunately the internet archive comes to the rescue, as usual. Tony Jones, Fred Anderson and Daryll Bock are among those who\u2019ve reacted (in very different ways) [&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-3233","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>Around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At the top of the list must go Mark Goodacre&#039;s post about the failure of the sites Early Christian Writings and Early Jewish Writings to rise from the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/around-the-blogosphere-15.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Around the Blogosphere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At the top of the list must go Mark Goodacre&#039;s post about the failure of the sites Early Christian Writings and Early Jewish Writings to rise from the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/around-the-blogosphere-15.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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