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In response to the request to know more about my family, here are a couple of pictures of my baby girl (she ain’t no baby, no mo’) who was born Aug. 14, 1979. She is engaged to be married to someone she has known since grade school, John Lyon. You will find them both hiding…

Rabbi Smuley Boteach (yes, Virginia that’s his real name– how appropriate for a teacher) is one of my favorite rabbis. He is engaged and engaging on a whole host of issues, one of which is the issue of atheism. He sends me his newsletter and postings several times a week. Here below is a sample…

Dr. A.J. Levine and I last night, April 7th, at Duke Divinity School had a cordial and enjoyable dialogue on the much belabored subject of Paul and Women. The audio, and perhaps also the video will soon be posted on the website of the Duke Socratic Club. Here is the link to their blogspot. http://www.socraticclubtwoviews.blogspot.com/…

In Kentucky, George Clooney is big. Born in Maysville and related to that other famous Kentuckian of the same name Rosemary Clooney, George can hardly do any wrong in this state. Shoot, his movie even premiered in little ole Maysville, even though it was shot in Columbia and Greenville S.C. and the surrounding area. This…

I have to tell you that my favorite book of the year thus far is one I picked up in one of the many airports I traverse through– ‘The Year of Living Biblically’, A.J. Jacob’s hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking tale of trying to live in a strict Biblical manner as a one year experiment. ‘The…

Here is a link to an interview with me done with a British interviewer Andy Cheung from Midlands Bible College (N.B. There are some errors in the interview, for instance its Matthew and John not Mark and John that I think are wisdom Gospels). http://www.midbible.ac.uk/content/view/130/ See what you think. BW3

Certainly one of the main talking points in post-modern society is the issue of point of view. By this I mean that the theorists of knowing that are influenced by Derrida and Foucault have been arguing for some time that there is no objective reality, or if there is, we can’t get at it because…

The beginning of the tidal wave coming ashore in Miss.The funnel clouds form.The rains begin.The sky turns strange colors. The appropriate response to seeing such things is– get in the car and drive as far away as you can as fast as you can.This picture clearly was taken too close to the line of fire.The…

This academic year, 2007-08 has involved my giving a variety of lectures and doing a variety of lectureships in a variety of places, to say the least. In the fall I did the Strauss lectures at Lincoln Christian College and the Distinguished Parchman lectures at Truett Seminary at Baylor University. In the new year I…

In his compelling lecture on how a scholar should go about establishing the authenticity of an ancient inscription, whether on an ossuary or in some other form, Barkay provides us with 10 points that need to followed to get to the bottom of the matter. I find myself very much in agreement with what he…
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