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A Fear of Whales
Anybody Know of a Bible Study Where we Actually Study the Bible?
By
rgaffney
I can’t find one. I have been looking. They are frighteningly hard to find. (I started a couple) Still, it’s a trend I want to talk about. I see more and more churches holding "Bible studies" where nobody brings their Bibles because the Bible is not opened, but instead, one verse, or theme from the…
An End of the Fear of Whales
By
rgaffney
I hate that so many of my posts are meta-posts. It was less than 6 months ago I was reflecting on where we had come from and updating my website with this as a regular feature. Yet here we are again, and what I feel pressed to write about is my own writing. Screw it,…
Canon and Myth (Or “Why Phantom Menace Doesn’t Count”)
By
rgaffney
From an early age I have been attracted to the iconic stories of our culture. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Hercules and the 12 Olympians, Fairy Tales and Legends. Disappointingly, I was not able to find an authoritative copy of most of those stories. I saw adaptation after adaptation in movies…
Ideas and Their (mis)Uses
By
rgaffney
There is a critique often leveled at my seminary, which I find often has a lot to do with why I disagree with the community opinion about a given idea. That is to condemn the idea, on the basis of it’s historical use. In other words, for many of us, if an evil person in…
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