David Stark has provided a listing for the podcasts from the inaugural session of the Biblioblogger section at SBL. All of these have been made available by Chris Brady.
Particular of use to me was Michael Barber‘s paper in which he highlights some of his online interaction as he prepared his dissertation. Anyway, you can find the list of links here,
SBL Blogger and Online Publication Podcasts « New Testament Interpretation.
The Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship is a distinctively Christian research organization devoted to the exploration, development, and dissemination of the theology of Thomas F. Torrance and other theologians contributing to this endeavor. The society exists to promote and sustain fellowship and truth–seeking (fides quaerens intellectum) in theological reflection upon the Christian faith, within the mainstream of the Christian Church and tradition in light of the theological legacy of Thomas F. Torrance. We are a Christian fellowship serving the Christian faith and the renewal of the Church of Jesus Christ.
That is their mission statement.
Anyway, you can find the journal, volumes 1 and 2 here:
Christianity is exploding in Pakistan according to many reports, and this is one of the side effects –
Pope Benedict XVI appealed for clemency but hard-line Islamic groups have threatened civil war if the government pardons Bibi or attempts to amend the law.
Bibi’s husband, 48-year-old Ashiq Masih, is desperate, convinced radical Islamic groups are aiming to kill the family. He has gone into hiding, along with his children, sheltered inside a Christian colony in an outlying district of Sheikhupura. Masih insists his wife was framed, a victim of old score-settling in their village of Ittan Walli, where his family was just one of two Christian families.
Read the entire story here,
World Blog – Christian woman faces death for blasphemy.
This looks to be a great giveaway away contest from the folks at Tyndale
Your vote will determine which ministry gets the largest cash grant—up to $5,000. And just for voting, you’ll get a chance to win two NLT Study Bibles—one for you, and one to give away! We’re also going to give you the chance to win Bibles for your favorite ministry, and one Grand Prize Winner will travel to Wycliffe’s world headquarters in Orlando, FL, to experience the exciting world of Bible translation first-hand at the WordSpring Discovery Center, or they can choose to donate the value of that trip to Wycliffe instead.
So, go read more about it and enter –
NLT Blog.
Jason is giving a few things – go see –
Christmas Giveaway | Pastoral Musings.
To Energion Direct.
The contest will end on November 30th. Therefore, and furthermore, and moreover, the rules shall be as these:
Who is Energion?
Mission Statement
Summary FormOur mission is to use web and print publishing to educate Christian laity and clergy, to energize the whole church to commitment and action, and to empower all members of the body of Christ to be effective witnesses for Jesus.
ExpansionWe accomplish this mission by publishing books that will challenge the broad Christian center. By the “broad Christian center” we mean that large group of Christians who are willing to work together with one another despite disagreement on non-essentials, who are interested in genuine dialog and learning, who seek sound teaching and understanding, yet are too often left to drift.
We also believe that Christianity is best served by a well-informed people, capable of defending their faith and also of challenging their leadership. The church is not an organization of professional ministers, but all are ministers.
They also publish a great deal from Dr. David A. Black.
This is one of the finest sermons preaches which I can almost promise you, many of you, will not like. I would urge you, however, to give it a listen. MacDonald echoes the greats of Christian historical theology here and it is one for those who believe that God is indeed love.
I very nice tip of the hat to Steve.
I am copying this completely:
This semester, students in my course on the Book of Revelation had as one of their assignments to evaluate a web site and post their evaluation on a blog set up for this purpose.
I’ll be reading their posts over the coming days, but I wanted to share a link to the blog so that you can do so as well.
Your comments will be welcome, both for my benefit as I seek to evaluate not only what students produced, but also the value of this sort of assignment; and also for the benefit of the students, for some of whom this represents their very first steps towards contributing to that online pool of information that is the internet.
via Exploring Our Matrix: Evaluating Online Sources Online: Revelation Course Blog.
I’ve read several of the blog posts – I think that you might find it interesting some of the takes on Revelation….
For the past few months, I’ve been using Zemanta’s plugin for WordPress.org. WordPress.com has it as well, by the way. It saves a lot of time looking for pictures and others links…. and… it allows me to add links from other bloggers who are writing about something similar.
So, here is my request. Go register with Zemanta. Put your feed in the feed of the company feeds the bloggers. Seriously, I should be a parody singer. But, I digress.
This will allow me to link to more of your blog posts. See below….
We are quickly losing our Christianity to secularism because, in the end, we are nothing by atheists. I generalize here, and do not mean anyone in particular, but if you look across our cultural landscape, I believe you’ll see what I mean. Frankly, I blame the American idea of an individualistic faith. I think that the notion of separating our faith into a private realm and forgoing any and all public expression of it in an effort not to offend anyone helps us to forget the immanent God. I think that for us, we have forgotten to live our faith, and instead shield it, suffocating it until it is gone all the while pretending we still have it.
We criticize atheists because in reality, we either fear them or are jealous of them because they have gone were we fear we are going. They at least have the courage to stand up and say that they have killed God. Many of us in the West simply like to pretend that God is on life support somewhere, ready to spring to life, if and when we need him. Generally, however, we don’t. We no longer need God to help us explain anything. The Weather Channel generally does a pretty good job of telling us about storms. God is no longer angry. Science tells us about the reality of creation; no longer do we need to remember the mystery of God’s physics and molecular imagination in singing the hymns of Creation. As a matter of fact, we no longer need to have the divine imagination, reverence or fear, in looking at the world around us. We can run to a book to tell us how something happens. We forget, however, the important question of Why and Who.
But, I digress. Not really. We look at the State as our benefactor and our protector and like more pre-modern cultures and their gods, seek to constantly kill it. We forget that God is the one who sets us and pulls down kingdoms. Frankly, ever since 1776, we have taken that right upon ourselves. And beyond that, we no longer need to live our faith where we are at. What we need to do is to be quiet. We don’t want to offend anyone, after all, in a pluralist society. Thus, God is no longer seen. God is forgotten. We are just atheists waiting to shed our lest vestigial longing to be reunited with the Divine. After all, as the author of Ecclesiastes says, this life is all that we have. Just drink, be merry, and have fun. Granted, the book of Wisdom counters this and reminds us that the Righteous will be vindicated because they had the promise of Life in what comes after. But, if we are all righteous, there is no wicked. And if no wicked, no righteous. We are all simply the same. Christ was just a good teacher, and did nothing really for us. We can be Jesus-y if we want, but we should acknowledge that everyone was his and our equal. And if we are all equal, then no election, no need for salvation, no need for God.
No need to live our faith in hopes of sparing someone else the danger of punishment in the world to come. No world to come, really, because we have no scientific proof and we have proof of everything, don’t we? No need for mystery or hope. Why? Because we know everything already. We have been revealed through the destruction of Western Christianity, while so many fall away from their belief in God, as God ourselves. We sit in what was one his mysterious temple, and display ourselves, our learning, our technological marvels, magic and science and exalt these things over the mystery of God himself.
We are at best Deists with a tradition. Aren’t we?
Do you live your faith? Does God still answer prayers? Is God still, even now, behind the science of the how, providing the ultimate why?
