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Mar 17 2010
Witherington’s latest work is an 800 page masterpiece. In order to help me keep track of my thoughts on this book, and in part to showcase more of the book than a review, I am posting ‘reflections’ on each chapter.
Continue reading “Reflection – The Indelible Image, The Kinsmen and Their Redeemer”
Mar 16 2010
The blogger – link below – suggests that Christians have a natural privilege in the U.S. akin to other groups who do:
Mar 15 2010
Great question:
I’ve just finished reading most of Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages, by Frances and Joseph Gies; about one-third of the book was devoted to life among the nobility, and so I skipped past those chapters. But the rest is very good, especially because it takes the time to set the stage by describing the marriage and family patterns among the groups that fed into medieval society, mainly Greeks and Romans and Germans and Christians.
It turns out that those pre-medieval patterns of marriage were very much different from what we see as normal today, and that many of the important shifts came during the Middle Ages, usually in response to shifting economic circumstances…..
You might take a gander and read it a bit:
What makes us think we’ve finally gotten it right? « Dry Creek Chronicles.
Remember, ‘Traditional Marriage’ isn’t all that ‘traditional.’
Mar 15 2010
At an atheist convention in Melbourne yesterday, Richard Dawkins compared the awarding of sainthood to Australian nun Mary MacKillop to a Monty Python skit. Continue reading
Mar 12 2010
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Mar 12 2010
What is the proper way to read the bible?
Do you read it as you understand it by today’s measurements and definitions, or do you read it how it was once delivered? Do the means change (not application) from generation to generation, culture to culture? Or do you believe that what Christ said still stands as He meant it, not as we today understand it?
Completely loaded question.
Mar 11 2010
Mar 06 2010
Stuart has a great post, one which meant to get some conversation:
the Spitoon:-
the kangaroo court of militant atheism is a toxic, anti-reason fallacy
On a recent visit to the natural history museum, i was struck by the number of hijabs, kippot and crucifixes on display. unfazed by fossils, geological displays of the age of the earth, australopithecine skulls and the marble statue of darwin that gazes enigmatically over the entrance hall, they gamely queued for the dinosaur exhibit, children in tow, back and forth beneath the massive skeleton of diplodocus, eager to expand their knowledge of the universe. it was an inspiring sight and one that i found immensely encouraging given the current level and tone of debate between religion and science. nobody appeared to be there to tell their children “and these are the fake animals G!D Placed in the earth to Test our faith”. everywhere were children asking clear, in some cases unsettling questions about how things came to be.
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Pss….I don’t like militant anything – religionista’s either.
Mar 06 2010
You can find all of the 13 parts on the youtube page, but here is the first and second part:
pt 1
Pt 2
Etc…
Thanks to Glenn for spotting this and following up on debating Loftus. Make sure you read Glenn’s post on this series.
Mar 06 2010
It’s an ambiguous question. Let’s see if I can give the two ways I’m hearing it.
It’s important that every sermon from a Christian preacher be a Christian sermon, that is, a sermon that, if a Jewish or Muslim person heard it, they wouldn’t like. If they like it, something is wrong with it, because they reject Christ as Messiah and crucified and risen as the forgiver of the sins of the world.
And since they reject it, if they hear a sermon that they’re totally OK with, then something is missing. The sermon should somehow communicate that this is all based on and aiming toward the work of Christ and the glory of Christ.
Read the rest here How important is it for preachers to preach Christ from every text of Scripture?.
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