The clobber-text hermeneutic is always and everywhere a barrier to love and to justice. That's what it's for. That is it's design, purpose, intention and primary function. Young-Earth creationism is both a product of the clobber-text hermeneutic and a buttress that reinforces it. Read more
Oh good, another huge snowstorm. A historically disreputable abbot. The archbishop takes sides with the drag queen. Credit-rating agencies are very good at being terrible at their jobs. The majestic equality of Florida law. Why Bible-reading doesn't count as "Bible-minded." Read more
Today, we have science. We're so accustomed to this that we assume we've always had science -- that we have always referred to and accounted for nature through the lens of science. But we didn't always do this. We didn't always have this any more than Italy has always had tomatoes or Israel has always had camels. Read more
The plot of "Junebug" is easy to summarize -- the older son who moved off to the city up North returns home with his city wife to visit his family. But it's much harder to say what this movie is about. I think maybe, in part, it's about the possibility and impossibility of ever knowing another person. Read more
The 1952 Rapture movie "The Missing Christians" is bad. You probably guessed that, but you didn't guess how very bad it actually is. It's worse than you're thinking. It's worse than you're thinking even if you've already accounted for the fact that it's worse than you're thinking. Read more
So why is it that the story of Peter’s vision in Acts 10 & 11 seems so bewildering to so many people? The story isn’t exactly subtle. Peter himself explicitly states What This Vision Means several times in the story itself. So how is it that so many people read this story and come away confused as to What This Vision Means? Why are so many people convinced this story is about food and dietary laws when the story itself... Read more
"God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean." If you miss that, you've missed the entire book of Acts. If you miss that, you miss the entire gospel. Erick Erickson missed that. Read more
This is a brazen, broken request for financial donations. If you can afford to do so, and if you are inclined to do so, now would be a very helpful time to make a donation to this humble blog. Read more
"Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love." Read more
Reality still matters, so the proper response to a debate between science and anti-science is not to say that some think the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and some think it is 6,000 years old, so let's all be reasonable and say it's 2,250,003,000 years old. Read more
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