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Feminism, Parenting, and Writing Your Own Story
We are not dead. We are just moving across the country. I’m so sorry we have sucked at blogging. Here’s a blog post I wrote a few weeks ago for just this occasion—when I felt bad for not posting but...
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From the Dilettante Files: Prismatic Theology
A couple years ago, I attended my very first meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in New Orleans. As I was meandering through the hallways in search of interesting sessions, my attention was...
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Theological Responsibility
Moving has kept me from the blog world for far too long. I promise I’ll try to return to some of my recent post series soon! Today, though, just a quick thought: I find myself burdened by what I feel...
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Lisa Frank Joins Mark Driscoll’s Mars Hill Church
In a stunning victory for Christianity, Mark Driscoll has converted Lisa Frank to Christianity and she has joined his Seattle church. Already, the artistic genius of Ms. Frank is making itself visible...
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Jim West is giving something other than disdain away
Jim West has a contest to give away a copy of the Ephesians/Galatians volume of the totally awesome and new IVP Reformation Commentary on Scripture. Check it out. Depraved individuals need not...
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Extreme Right Politics + Christianity = Loony
I had a Facebook interaction that I found so amusing I decided to share with all of you. First, a little background. I went to a semi-conservative undergrad, the sort of place where professors are...
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Excommunication Letter
I saw this on failblog and thought you all might enjoy it. Filed under: Church Life, Humor
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Cool Resource
Harvard University Extension School has a website where they have essentially posted the lectures from online courses for free public consumption. Harvard open courses feature video of Harvard faculty....
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Book Announcement
I’d like to take this opportunity to tell my friends and fellow-biblibloggers about a new book I have coming out from Major Evangelical Publisher. A few months ago, MEP contacted me about a book...
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An Early Non-Literal Reading of Genesis
While studying the Apostolic Fathers last semester I came across a non-literal reading of Genesis in 2 Clement. Just as background, 2 Clement, which is not written by Clement, is an early Christian...
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Theological Irresponsibility and the Parachurch
Having attended seminary, I am of the firm belief that the Bible is not magically able to be properly interpreted by everyone who reads it. This is in contrast with many evangelicals, who generally...
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Fantastic Australian Mockery of Televangelists
Filed under: Church Life, Humor, In the News
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Pagan Erotica and The Shepherd of Hermas
A while back I was reading Peter Lampe’s fantastic book From Paul to Valentinus, when I came across a rather curious claim about the Shepherd of Hermas. Before I say more, let me first reproduce the...
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Evangelical Logic: Birth Control and Government
If: 1. Abortion is immoral 2. Birth control reduces abortions 3. Government mandates that increase the cost of insurance are equivalent to wealth redistribution 4. Wealth redistribution is immoral 5....
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A Great Quote in Light of the New Fragment of Mark “From the 1st Century”
I have been reading David Parker’s rather interesting volume An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts and in the introduction to the book he makes the following statement which...
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The Aluminum Scroll #7 – Why Santorum Makes Me Angry
Filed under: Church Life, Culture, Politics, The Aluminum Scroll
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Happy Quartodeciman Easter
Today at dusk marks the beginning of Nisan 14 on the Jewish calendar. Many early Christians celebrated Passover at this time as a Christian celebration of Jesus, both to mark his sacrifice and to...
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So you’re interested in the Apostolic Fathers…
Many of you are probably aware of a set of early Christian documents collectively called “The Apostolic Fathers” all of which were likely written in the first or second centuries of the common era....
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We’ve Moved!
Greetings friends. We’ve moved the blog from this freely hosted WordPress account to a self-hosted location. We’ve done this for a few reasons. First, those of you without a WordPress account are...
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