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P. Z. Myers shared this image indicating the status of the United States as a statistical outlier in at least one important respect<\/a> (originally from Calamities of Nature<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Alison Campbell<\/a> tries to clear up the ongoing confusion about fact and theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John Shuck shared some challenging thoughts inspired by Don Cupitt on solar living<\/a> (and I was struck by both the similarities and the stark contrast between Cupitt\u2019s message and this summary of the essence of Christianity by the famous Romanian Orthodox theologian Dumitru<\/a> St\u0103niloae<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Austin Roberts discusses theologians J\u00fcrgen\u00a0Moltmann and John Cobb<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Scott Bailey<\/a>, Joel Watts<\/a> and Gavin Rumney<\/a> defend historical critical scholarship, Peter Kirk has become so delusional that he even calls Rudolf Bultmann a \u201csecond rate scholar.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

David Lamb has Biblical trash talk about Ba\u2019al\u2019s bowel movements<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Randal Rauser describes a struggle to communicate with a fundamentalist about Harry Potter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rod of Alexandria, at least partly inspired by a book review I wrote, discusses whether science fiction and the post-colonial can co-exist<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like a Child discusses parenting through doubt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

M\u00e1ire\u00a0Byrne has tidied up her blog roll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael E. Smith warns about bogus conferences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Small<\/a> discusses myth, history, literalism and the Bible<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John Hobbins shares a suggestion for criteria for inclusion in the Biblioblog Reference Library<\/a>, as well as a pdf of an interview with John Polkinghorne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"