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Sunday School Teacher of 54 Years Dumped ‘Beacause She is a Woman”
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Ben Witherington
The story can and should be read here— http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/21/menonly.sundayschool.ap/index.html Watch the videos attached as well. This story is disturbing on many levels and it reflects clearly enough the growing fundamentalism in the Southern Baptist Church in general. Here we have a woman who had nurtured and served her church faithfully, using her gifts of teaching…
“The Faiths of the Founding Father’s”— David L. Holmes’ new book
By
Ben Witherington
It is a matter of no little contention whenever the subject of the principles on which our nation was founded comes up. Equally contentious is the issue of what faith or faiths our founding fathers (and mothers) actually embraced. Into this briar’s nest comes a very readable compact guide to the latter subject in particular,…
Justification by Doubt
By
Ben Witherington
Scholars are a funny lot. I ought to know— I’m one of them. Some are eccentric, some are eclectic, some are extraordinary. But when you participate in the rarified air of Biblical scholarship, a particular sort of historical scholarship, it seems that this discipline especially brings the peculiar out of the woodwork. Biblical scholarship becomes…
John Updike’s New Novel– “Terrorist”
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Ben Witherington
Today the news came across the wires that a major terrorist threat had been foiled by Scotland Yard, a threat to blow up one or more flights from the U.K. to the U.S. The alert status for the first time ever for flights from the U.K. to the U.S. was changed to red. With news…
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