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Ronnie Reich has spent these last years of his archaeological career digging the Pool of Siloam of John 9 fame. As it turns out, it is spectacular, and indeed it involves far more than at first meets the eye.   The discovery of the actual pool Jesus was talking about (not to be confused with…

It topped the box office this past weekend, which isn’t hard to do, since most of the movies in the theaters about now are lame in the run up to the Scary Potter megamillions later this month. It is the latest salvo from Dream Works in the ongoing war with Pixar to win the hearts…

The last one hundred pages of Don Miller’s latest book are the most important.  Real life persons creating their own stories know they only have so much control. In fact, just about all they can really control is their own words and deeds, what choices they make and how they act on them.  Don came…

Here is another brief clip from the DVD Revelation and the End Times.EnjoyBW3

As we speak,  Donald Miller and a film crew are finishing up shooting a movie version of his first memoir— Blue Like Jazz, a fine foray into life, albeit coming at it from left field (see the review of it on this blog many months ago).  Since the time of writing that book Donald Miller’s…

Audio recordings of the lectures and worship services are now available at the following link. http://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives-centers/lifelong-learning/convocation-pastors-school/ You may download the recordings free of charge. Additionally, N.T. Wright talks about why he doesn’t feel he has to choose between being an academic and a pastor in a video interview on Faith & Leadership, the online magazine…

This is my friend Levent Oral standing beneath beautiful bouganvillia in the Turkish town where his parents live— Chesme, a beautiful seaside resort town.  Levent runs a tour company called Tutku Tours out of Izmir, another beautiful Turkish seaside town.   Levent has become a good friend over the last decade or so,  and since he…

The latest issue of the magazine I write for, Biblical Archaeology Review,  is now out, and has an interesting and extended interview in it of Sean Freyne, now emeritus Professor of Theology at Trinity College Dublin.  This post will interact with some of his remarks.  Let it first be said that though interest in the…
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