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Play Ball— An Ode to Baseball
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Ben Witherington
I must admit to getting pretty mushy about baseball, especially at this time of year. I remember as if it were yesterday when my Dad would take me to see the Greensboro Yankees in the 50s and 60s, and I brought my glove and caught a foul ball. I remember watching Mel Stottlemyre and Tommy…
A PAIN IN THE NECK— THE STORY OF PAIN
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Ben Witherington
Pain is an odd thing. I once took a philosophy course at Carolina where we noted its oddity, and then discussed it to death until I was disgusted. The main point Professor E. Maynard Adams was making was that pain, like love, is not a tangible visible thing, but it sure is…
Atheists Just Sing the Blues
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Ben Witherington
How true it is! I wonder what that says about all those psalms of lament in the Psalter? Just asking 🙂 I have to say, Steve Martin is my kind of atheist. And he sings o.k. too, with the Canyon Rangers at good ole Merle Fest 2010. Maybe we should call this a blues-grass classic??…
Husbands as Stay at Home Dads?
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Ben Witherington
Mark Driscoll is an increasingly popular Christian teacher, with a considerable ministry. One of my students at Asbury Seminary asked me to comment on this video (see above), more specifically on the use of Titus 2 in this video to justify a tradtional patriarchal home structure for Christians. Let me first say I have no…
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