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I have to confess something. Tyler Hansbrough may be the pride of Poplar Bluff Mo. but he is quickly becoming my all-time favorite Tar Heel. And today he announced he is coming back for his senior season. Christmas just came early! Lawson and Ellington have declared for and may go to the NBA, though thankfully…

My friend and fellow blogger Mark Roberts has just posted the following, which I am copying to you. Check it out. BW3——————- Excellent Discussion on the Problem of Suffering By Mark D. Roberts | Thursday, April 24, 2008 Beliefnet.com is hosting a fine “blogalogue” between Bart Ehrman and N. T. Wright on the problem of…

This is frankly the UTube Christian video of the year thus far for me. Props to all those rappin’ Nazarenes out there in the heartland. Get on up with your Good Self, Kanye and Eminem ain’t got nothin’ on you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnIrE3vf3Eo BW3

“I found the quote from one Ben Witherington to be quite amusing. In the first place, I have never met this gentleman nor have I read anything that he has written. My assumption is that his work is not read outside of evangelical circles. In the second place, I have never debated with this gentleman.…

It has been said that too many Americans have been innoculated with a slight case of Christianity that is preventing them from getting the real thing. Perhaps this has something to do with how much of God people really want. Here is a quote from Wilbur Rees to make you think: “I would like to…

Some of you are politely relentless (if that isn’t an oxymoron). One of the things various of you folks in the blogosphere have been bugging me about is explaining the whole business about rhetoric, and using rhetoric to analyze the NT. Well, I have finally capitulated and written a handbook for Wipf and Stock (under…

You know how your past comes back to haunt you. Well, ZonePerfect took my picture while I was in Jacksonville, and then posterized me on three make believe album covers. Here they are. Flattering is not the word I would use for these pictures, but they say humility is good for the soul (but what…

Once every four years, representative clergy and laity of every United Methodist Annual Conference meet to discuss and enact important legislation that thereafter represents the official stance of the United Methodist Church on issues as varied as theology, ethics, church polity, ordination, and a host of other topics. Unlike many other hierarchial denominations, neither ministers…

Pinehurst No. 2, one of the greatest of all golf courses in the world, is also clearly, at least in terms of its greens, one of the most difficult courses in the world, and it sure humbled me on April 29th. It was a cold and windy Saturday, and it was hard to even feel…

For the world’s one billion Roman Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI is very important indeed. In fact, one could say he is the most important Christian in the world of any sort, by one sort of evaluation. Certainly if one evaluates such things on the basis of pure influence, then Benedict would have to be placed…
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