Archive for June, 2009
Biblioblog Top 50 – June 2009
It’s here… June’s Biblioblog Top 50, and it is out standing! From the Biblioblogs: It’s the Biblioblog Top 50 – for the month of June 2009! The Biblioblog Top 50 ranks each biblical studies blog, or “biblioblog,” by the total traffic or “hits” it receives each month. The Number 1 Biblioblogger this month is… Jim West So what […]
Believing in Myths – People Believe but don’t know why
The Blogger (here) asks a good question – why do so many believe in Christ, especially when so few actually read the bible? With statistics like these, it is not difficult to see why so many have their faith so easily shaken, and why so much is so easily passed off as ‘Christian’. Here are […]
Send your kids to Atheist Camp
According to the Telegraph (U.K.), Richard Dawkins is going to establish an atheist summer camp: The evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, who stepped down from his post at Oxford University last year, has subsidised the five-day camp in Somerset. Camp-goers will be given lessons in rational scepticism, as well as sessions in […]
Firefox 3.5, or, how I spent my day
I didn’t really spend my day experimenting with Firefox 3.5, but I have found that it does run faster than 3.x. Further, it takes up a LOT less cpu usage than the previous version. Right now, I have three tabs open. With the previous version, I would have had a usage rate of 288,000-350,000. I […]
First Martyrs
June 30 is the date held by certain people, Catholics mainly, as the feast to remember the first Martyrs in Rome – those blamed by Nero and subsequently persecuted by the Empire. Thanks to Maria for pointing that out – The Da Vinci Code movie apparently claims that there aren’t really any pagan sources telling […]
Quote of the Day: Marriage is not about Love
“Because it’s not feelings — it’s not emotions,” Culbertson said, the smile fading from his tanned face. “For most Christians, at some point in your marriage, if you’re married long enough, you do it because that’s what we’re called to do — out of obedience instead of out of passion. And I think that’s where […]
The Prophet Amos and the Resurrection
At the Voice of Stefan, the blogger has began a series of posts on this passage: Amos 9:11-12: On that day I will raise up the tent of Dauid that is fallen and rebuild its ruins and raise up its destruction, and rebuild it as the days of old in order that those remaining of […]
In: Church Fathers, Irenaeus
