{"id":3609,"date":"2008-07-10T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/what-the-blogosphere-says\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T11:10:00","slug":"what-the-blogosphere-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/what-the-blogosphere-says.html","title":{"rendered":"What The Blogosphere Says"},"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.metacatholic.co.uk\/2008\/07\/the-bible-doesnt-say\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doug Chapin<\/a> has recommended abandoning talk of \u201cwhat the Bible says\u201d, with further discussion by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepbiblestudy.net\/?p=437\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Henry Neufeld<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/seanthebaptist.typepad.com\/sean_the_baptist\/2008\/07\/changing-our-language-the-bible-says.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sean the Baptist<\/a>. Paul Flesher compares <a href=\"http:\/\/religion-today.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/ancient-readers.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ancient and modern readers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The news about the Revelation of Gabriel is being followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/paleojudaica.blogspot.com\/2008_07_06_archive.html#6226464722070001020\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">PaleoJudaica<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/biblische.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/gabriels-vision-and-wicked-branch-anti.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen Cook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkchristian.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/09\/are-the-gospels-unique-does-it-matter\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Think Christian<\/a> and many others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/austringer.net\/wp\/index.php\/2008\/07\/09\/what-do-carl-baugh-and-answers-in-genesis-have-in-common\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Creationists are appealing to the Flintstones<\/a> in their support. A philosopher has taken on the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/aigbusted.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/philosopher-takes-on-irreducible.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">irreducible complexity<\/a>. New Scientist covers the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/channel\/opinion\/mg19926643.300-new-legal-threat-to-teaching-evolution-in-the-us.html?feedId=online-news_rss20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">latest legal threat to evolution<\/a> and thus to decent science education.<\/p>\n<p>Faithfully Liberal asks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithfullyliberal.com\/?p=1075\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">what the religious Left is doing<\/a>. Open Parachute looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/openparachute.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/11\/are-ceremonies-important-to-religions\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">religion and ceremony<\/a>. SF Gospel tries to clear up <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgospel.typepad.com\/sf_gospel\/2008\/07\/terry-pratchett-clears-things-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Terry Pratchett\u2019s statements about God<\/a>. Metanexus\u2019 <em>The Global Spiral <\/em> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/metanexus.net\/magazine\/tabid\/68\/id\/10567\/Default.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">excerpt from Roy Clouser\u2019s <em>The Myth of Religious Neutrality<\/em><\/a>. At the Center for Progressive Christianity, Terri Murray writes about \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpc.org\/library\/article.cfm?library_id=519\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Myth-Busting the Religious Right<\/a>\u201c, while there\u2019s a sermon by Paul Knitter on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpc.org\/library\/article.cfm?library_id=518\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus, the way that is open to other ways<\/a>. NPR has a piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/transcripts\/2008\/07\/04\/03\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christine Wicker<\/a>, whose book on Evangelicalism I hope to read soon. The Berkley Center has a <a href=\"http:\/\/gdc.georgetown.edu:3000\/databases\/faith2008\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">new site tracking religious rhetoric used in political campaigns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3423152656379189662?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Chapin has recommended abandoning talk of \u201cwhat the Bible says\u201d, with further discussion by Henry Neufeld and Sean the Baptist. Paul Flesher compares ancient and modern readers. 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