{"id":3727,"date":"2008-05-05T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/around-the-blogosphere-29\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T12:31:00","slug":"around-the-blogosphere-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/around-the-blogosphere-29.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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacatholic.co.uk\/2008\/05\/fundamentalists-dont-know-their-bibles\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doug Chaplin<\/a> highlights a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacatholic.co.uk\/2008\/05\/fundamentalists-dont-know-their-bibles\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">news article<\/a> about a study which shows that fundamentalists don\u2019t know the Bible better than others, and that reading the Bible more doesn\u2019t lead one to vote for a particular party. Is anyone surprised\u2026apart from fundamentalists?<br>Liberal Pastor discusses what it means to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalpastor.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-progressive.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Progressive Christian<\/a>. I hope <a href=\"http:\/\/mysticalseeker.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/failure-of-nerve.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mystical Seeker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pluralistspeaks.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/tec-and-its-er-limits.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pluralist<\/a> won\u2019t stop exploring the cutting edge of such a faith. <a href=\"http:\/\/pluralismsunday.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/05\/interview-what-is-pluralism\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pluralism Sunday<\/a> has been scheduled.<br>Sam Harris needs <a href=\"http:\/\/vyoma108.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/research-volunteers-needed.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christian volunteers<\/a>. Vridar has been <a href=\"http:\/\/vridar.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/02\/resurrection-more-responses-to-wright-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">continuing a series on Wright and the resurrection<\/a>, and also talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/vridar.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/03\/why-science-is-not-another-faith\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">why science is not a faith<\/a>. Quixie discusses the <a href=\"http:\/\/leoquix.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/paul-and-pastorals.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Pastoral Epistles<\/a>. James Tabor discusses Barrie Wilson\u2019s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusdynasty.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/04\/how-jesus-became-christian\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">How Jesus Became Christian<\/a><\/i>. Ehrman and Wright <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2008\/05\/nt-wright-and-bart-ehrman-new-1.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">continue their conversation<\/a>. April DeConick asks about <a href=\"http:\/\/forbiddengospels.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/religious-freedom-what-is-it.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">religious freedom<\/a>.<br>Andrew can\u2019t help laughing that <a href=\"http:\/\/theogeek.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/quote-of-day.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">someone finds Jesus\u2019 view of discipleship an inadequate definition of Christianity<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhalcomb.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/bloggers-unite-for-human-rights.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Michael Halcomb<\/a> calls <a href=\"http:\/\/unite.blogcatalog.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bloggers to unite for human rights<\/a>.<br>Chuck Blanchard asks whether <a href=\"http:\/\/aguyinthepew.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/was-jesus-wrong-about-genesis.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus was wrong about Genesis<\/a>. John Pieret continues to discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/decisions-decisions.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">what the Discovery-free Institute says and does<\/a>. Steve Martin asks people to share their stories about <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AnEvangelicalDialogueOnEvolution\/~3\/283643776\/factors-involved-in-shift-to.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shifting to an evolutionary creationist perspective<\/a>. Ancient Hebrew Poetry also has <a href=\"http:\/\/ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com\/ancient_hebrew_poetry\/2008\/05\/does-genesis-1.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a post on a Genesis creation story<\/a>. Francisco Ayala spoke recently about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificblogging.com\/rationally_speaking\/science_religion_and_the_problem_of_evil\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the problem of evil<\/a>. John M. Lilley, president of Baylor University, has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommondescent.com\/documentation\/Lilley_Expelled_Response.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a letter addressing the issue of Expelled<\/a>. Elliot highlights some <a href=\"http:\/\/clawoftheconciliator.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/moderate-views.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">moderate voices on religion and science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube has <a href=\"http:\/\/evolutionvscreationism.info\/Evolution%20vs.%20Creationism\/The%20Scientists.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">videos related to evolution<\/a> by:<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Forrest<\/p>\n<p>and many others<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1068748843601862939?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Chaplin highlights a news article about a study which shows that fundamentalists don\u2019t know the Bible better than others, and that reading the Bible more doesn\u2019t lead one to vote for a particular party. Is anyone surprised\u2026apart from fundamentalists?Liberal Pastor discusses what it means to be a Progressive Christian. I hope Mystical Seeker and [&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-3727","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=\"Doug Chaplin highlights a news article about a study which shows that fundamentalists don&#039;t know the Bible better than others, and that reading the Bible\" \/>\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\/05\/around-the-blogosphere-29.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=\"Doug Chaplin highlights a news article about a study which shows that fundamentalists don&#039;t know the Bible better than others, and that reading the Bible\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/around-the-blogosphere-29.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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