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Somewhere along the way, Comic Books became serious, and started calling themselves Graphic Novels. This was well after my senior high years when I stopped reading them for the most part, except on summer vacation. For those of us who grew up with the early DC and Marvel Comics, and then the high camp, low…

Here is the link to the brief discussion on the Gabriel Stone which I was involved in this week: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/07/11/wedeman.gabriel.cnn?iref=videosearch

What follows in this post is the verbatim of the full text of Howard Snyder’s review of ‘Pagan Christianity’ which appeared this spring in the Revitalization magazine (Vol. 15 No. 1 Spring 2008) edited by Asbury’s Prof. Stephen O’Malley. Howard gave me his permission to reprint it here. What it demonstrates, in my view, is…

N.B. This is a small selection from my forthcoming book of metaphysical poetry with commentary entitled The Living Legacy by myself and Julie Noelle Robertson. It is a work arranged according to the church year, and intended for spiritual formation. Enjoy. BW3 THE SOUND OF THE SOUL The sound of the soul At the speed…

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR NEIGHBOR IS IN ARREARS ON HIS RENT A SOUND INVESTMENT WHOSE THAT CLOWN THAT ORDERED THE CHARBROILED BURGER? WHAT TIRED LOOKS LIKE A BARE WALL THE REASON SMART PEOPLE WEAR P.J.’S TO BED AN HAIR-RAISING TATTOO THE BARE FACTS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING IS THIS THE LINE DRINKERS ARE SUPPOSED TO…

In this post I am not interested in discussing the issue of whether Sunday is the sabbath or should be considered the Christian sabbath or not. My interest is the historical one— did early Christians regularly meet on a fixed day of the week, and was that day Sunday? We have seen in the immediately…

One of the more disturbing problems with the sort of arguments found in ‘Pagan Christianity’ is the lack of understanding of early Christian history, and the relationship of continuity between earliest Christian communities and the communities one finds at the turn of the NT era and at the beginning of the second century when there…

Here is the way to start your week off with a bang– a funky birthday card from Joe Cocker. Be prepared to laugh. I just knew he wasn’t singing the Beatles’ lyrics! BW3 Kudos to Craig Hill for sending me this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM

There are a variety of important ‘biographies’ of Jesus written by a variety of scholars, but few of them are Jewish scholars who spent their academic life on the issue of Jesus. David Flusser is the exception to the rule, and we may be grateful his mature thoughts were put together in book form by…

Dominic Buettner for The New York Times Why is that man above smiling? David Jeselsohn bought an ancient tablet, above, but he was totally unaware of its significance. Now it may be the earliest Jewish evidence for the idea of a dying and rising messiah figure There just isn’t enough controversy in Israel these days…
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