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It’s a sad truth, but nonetheless a truth, that the rock and roll era is mostly over, after a half a century of changing the landscape of popular music. I was fortunate enough to be along for the full ride, doing a lot of work in record stores, and going to a ton of great…

The following is a seminar paper presented by one of my doctoral students which I thought was a useful critique of Bart Ehrman’s popular work on ‘Lost Christianities.BW3 ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF CANON AND CULTURE: AN ANALYSIS OF EHRMAN’S LOST CHRISTIANITIES SUBMITTED TO DRS. WARREN SMITH AND BEN WITHERINGTONIN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OFNT805—THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS AND…

Though I am a diehard member of the Red Sox nation, I must confess I have always had a soft spot in my heart for that master of the malaprop– Yogi Berra. And so, in an ‘ecumenical’ gesture I offer the following Yogi-ism for today: “Always go to other peoples funerals, because you will want…

For our son David’s 26th birthday we decided to treat him to para-sailing at our favorite beach– North Myrtle Beach. So as the Styx song says “come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with us….”

———– For some time my son has been urging me to read the graphic novel ‘Watchmen’. After going and seeing a ‘graphic novel’ of Frank Miller’s on the big screen (i.e. 300), I was intrigued. Dave kept telling me I would find this an exercise in fertility rather than futility. And then we he showed…

Here are two interesting recreations of Golgotha and the tomb of Jesus which are worth pondering. Thanks to Justin Taylor for sending them along. http://theologica.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-did-calvary-look-like-interview.html http://theologica.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-did-jesus-tomb-look-like-interview.html

I am reading a manuscript by Phillip King entitled The Bible is for Living, in which the following comment struck me— “the New Testament is not necessarily a commentary on the OldTestament, that is to say, Jesus is not to be found on every page ofthe Old Testament. The Old Testament text is not simply…

Tunc Tezel, a native of Turkey, is an amateur astronomer and photographer. I love his picture of Ephesos at night, taken as one looks up Curetes Street near Hadrian’s little temple he built. Thanks to Tim Collins for putting me on to his work. Here is a link where you can learn about him Tezel.…

One of the most frequent emails I have had sent to me since the primaries were over by worried Christians is the one which claims that Barack Obama is a closet Muslim, based on the fact that he had a Muslim father, and, it is claimed, he attended a Muslim school when young in Indonesia.…

When a novel by an unknown Christian writer which is basically privately published, goes to the top of the NY Times fiction bestseller list, mostly on the basis of word of mouth, you know something is up. More particularly you know it seems to be a God thing, since word of mouth doesn’t really travel…
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