{"id":550,"date":"2011-06-10T20:48:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=543"},"modified":"2011-06-10T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T00:48:09","slug":"conversations-around-the-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/06\/conversations-around-the-blogosphere.html","title":{"rendered":"Conversations 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>Here are some links to posts either directly responding to, or simply on the same topic as, recent posts here at Exploring Our Matrix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrdkirk.com\/2011\/06\/10\/shema-christology-in-1-cor-8\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daniel Kirk<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nearemmaus.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/10\/is-the-shema-in-1-corinthians-8-6\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brian LePort<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/thechurchofjesuschrist.us\/2011\/06\/is-mcgrath-being-fair-or-a-monotheist\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheChurchOfJesusChrist+%28The+Church+of+Jesus+Christ%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Joel Watts<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tomverenna.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/09\/monotheism-in-1-corinthians-86\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tom Verenna<\/a> chime in on the Shema and Pauline monotheism. Tom also explains why <a href=\"http:\/\/tomverenna.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/07\/is-mythicism-close-to-its-end\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">he is no longer a \u201cmythicist.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/westernthm.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/10\/flotsam-and-jetsam-610-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/danielomcclellan.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/09\/lady-mcgaga-on-inerrancy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">people<\/a> have joined in the Lady Gaga inerrancy conversation, including <a href=\"http:\/\/politicaljesus.com\/2011\/06\/09\/james-mcgrath-lady-gaga-and-the-bible\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rod of Alexandria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diglotting.com\/2011\/06\/10\/my-journey-from-conservative-to-liberal-christian\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kevin Brown discusses how his journey parallels my own<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thatjeffcarterwashere.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/human-faces-of-god-before-and-after.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">That Jeff Carter includes a quote from me<\/a> in a review of Thom Stark\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/160899323X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=160899323X\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Human Faces of God<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=160899323X&amp;camp=217153&amp;creative=399349\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\"><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>James Bradford Pate also <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesbradfordpate.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/being-open-to-change.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">gives me a mention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Schenck talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/kenschenck.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/tendency-to-become-what-we-fight.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">our tendency to become what we oppose<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earliestchristianity.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/09\/can-historical-jesus-work-be-done-by-those-affirming-inerrancy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tim Henderson asks if inerrantists can do historical Jesus work<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/otagosh.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/pick-scholar.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Otagosh<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nearemmaus.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/09\/tim-henderson-asks-can-historical-jesus-work-be-done-by-those-affirming-inerrancy\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brian LePort<\/a> respond. Tim follows up with <a href=\"http:\/\/earliestchristianity.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/10\/can-those-who-deny-miracles-do-valid-historical-jesus-work\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a question about miracles and historical Jesus research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kristin Swenson suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kristin-m-swenson-phd\/reading-the-bible_b_874242.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">some things to know <em>before<\/em> reading the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Reitan <a href=\"http:\/\/thepietythatliesbetween.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/ad-hoc-christianity-interview.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shares a link to an interview he did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Bulkeley revisits the idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/bigbible.org\/sansblogue\/bible\/free-open-source-textbook-project-call-for-participation\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">an open source Hebrew Bible textbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebiblicalworld.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/temporary-relocation-to-tel-gezer.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Byron relocates to Tel Gezer<\/a>, where I hope to meet up with him later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com\/ancient_hebrew_poetry\/2011\/06\/why-i-cannot-recommend-patheos.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ancienthebrewpoetry+%28Ancient+Hebrew+Poetry%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Hobbins doesn\u2019t like Patheos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some links to posts either directly responding to, or simply on the same topic as, recent posts here at Exploring Our Matrix. Daniel Kirk, Brian LePort, Joel Watts and Tom Verenna chime in on the Shema and Pauline monotheism. Tom also explains why he is no longer a \u201cmythicist.\u201d More people have joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,60],"tags":[720,1254,1835,2148,2179,5154,6319,6527,7651,7853,8787,8815,9593,11191],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-monotheism","tag-apostle","tag-blogging","tag-christian","tag-conservative","tag-conversations","tag-inerrancy","tag-lady-gaga","tag-liberal","tag-monotheism","tag-mythicism","tag-patheos","tag-paul","tag-progressive","tag-shema"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Conversations Around the Blogosphere<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here are some links to posts either directly responding to, or simply on the same topic as, recent posts here at Exploring Our Matrix. 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