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There is a nice new piece in Time magazine that I have been helping with for some time on Rob Bell written by David van Biema, one of the very best writers on religion in America. Here is the link—The Pastor’s No Square. Unfortunately much of the analysis of Bell that I offered is deleted…

There is a new Christian studies center being launched at my son’s alma mater, the University of Kentucky and the center has a website and is putting up inaugural podcasts. One of them involved an interview with me. You will find the teaser here below if you click on the link, and that will lead…

* Police were called to a daycare where a three-year-old was resisting a rest. * Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now. * The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. * To write with a broken pencil is pointless. * When…

In a recent Special Report issue, America by the Numbers, some very revealing things came to light. The portion of the report which most interested me was the chart on the happiest people by job. 67% of all ministers say they are very happy on and with their jobs. The next happiest are firefighters, followed…

Clodhoppers and sodbusters Creeping across the plains, Finding their own domain, Wanderlust finally waned, Settled. Thrill seekers and risk takers Pushing the envelope Racing up the slope Until they couldn’t cope Settled. Mate seekers and date seekers Combing the internet Deciding to hedge their bets Tired of not finding yet Settled. Politicos and Pac Men…

I got home from the SBL to find waiting for me this huge box from Zondervan. Christmas came quite early. Perhaps you are not much into audio books. Perhaps you do not spend a lot of time riding in a car, and would rather here music anyway on such trips. But I have to tell…

In the Advent season above all seasons, we need to know the character of our God and of his Christ well, so we can understand why God sent forth his only begotten Son– namely because he loved the world and wanted to save it (John 3.16). Thus we must return once more to the discussion…

Doubtless you will remember the great fanfare with which the Gospel of Judas (see the picture on the left) was unveiled. Hailed as a new window into the historical Judas and his relationship with Jesus, the translators and commentators informed us that in this document we have a kinder gentler Judas who really didn’t deserve…

Robert Zemeckis is a fine director of films, but even he must have thought he had bitten off more than he could chew by attempting to do a 3-D film which is mostly CG and part real actors blended together, using a dark Scandanavian legend as its script. ‘Beowulf’ is an olde Englishe heroic poem…

There are gravestones in New England which have as their epitaphs– ‘he didn’t live long enough to see the Red Sox win the World Series’. Until 2004, there were few who could even vaguely recall the last World Series championship– that one won in 1918 with the help of some pitcher named Babe Ruth. It…
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