Archive for August, 2010
The Tattooed Dude beat me up
I was standing in line yesterday at the local supermarket and it was busy. I believe everyone had decided to head to the store yesterday. All I need was a pack of Swiss cheese… So there I was, standing in line, a line of about 5 people deep all with more than I. As we […]
Depravity – Lingerie is for 6 year olds
Our County Commission is only doing something worthwhile… You find the entire article here, but there is depraved individual who wants to open up an adult store which the county commission is attempting to stop him. He doesn’t think it is an adult store…why? “I’m selling stuff that I can legally sell,” Holliday said. “Ninety […]
In: Religious News · Tagged with: children, depravity, lingerie, west virginia
Help Korah Child Sponsorship Initiative
Great news from Michael!!! I mentioned a couple of days ago that in addition to the HelpKorah Bible Scholars initiative, that we also had a Child Sponsorship project & partnership in the works. I (Michael) cannot even begin to tell you just how thrilled I am to finally be making the announcement that our partnership […]
In: Charities · Tagged with: korah, Michael Halcomb
Jim West on Historical Criticism and Theological Exegesis
This is pretty easy, actually. I think that we have to have critical analysis of the text in order to give a better theological exegesis. Yes, I agree that too often, theologians see the two wholly separated, but that doesn’t need to be. Anyway, Jim has a good send up at the Bible and Interpretation […]
In: Criticism · Tagged with: biblical interpretation, historical criticism, jim west
Acts 9.2 as an indicator that women were leaders in the early Church
Thanks to TC for the link to Wright’s sermon from which I draw this post. and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. – Acts 9:2 NASB He requested letters addressed […]
In: Acts, Church Government · Tagged with: women in ministry
Adult Stem Cells and Success
Stem Cells are the big rage in medical science, and rightly so. Like anything good, it pays to get back to the source to heal health fissures which have developed over time. Embryonic stem cells, harvested from aborted fetuses, have yet to be proven to work successfully, and yet there is huge money being invested […]
In: Abortion · Tagged with: adult stem cells
First Pluto and now Triceratops/Torosaurus? – Is Santa No Longer Real Too?
Research by a Montana State University doctoral student and one of the nation’s top paleontologists is upending more than 100 years of thought regarding the dinosaurs known as triceratops and torosaurus. Since the late 1800s, scientists have believed that triceratops and torosaurus were two different types of dinosaurs. Triceratops had a three-horned skull with a […]
In: Science · Tagged with: evolution, paleontology, Torosaurus, Triceratops
