Monthly Archives: July 2010

Tiny, 24-room Apartment

This is amazing! I wish this guy was my friend when Connie and I moved into our first apartment right after we got married. (H/T: Evangelical Outpost) Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on … Continue reading

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Lunceford: Fundamentalist Distortion of Scripture Regarding Women’s Roles

My, Georgetown College has some cheeky profs! I have observed through the years that those who use the proof-texting approach and take the texts literally are highly selective in what they take. A seminary classmate of mine related a story … Continue reading

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Faith Comes by Hearing

This past Lent my church, along with others in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, participated in a Bible-reading emphasis. Here is a short video they played at last month’s CBF assembly in Charlotte about peoples’ experiences. Three people from FBC Macon … Continue reading

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Mr. Potatohead Explains Markan Priority

Must be seen to be believed (H/T: Mark Goodacre) Next week: Gumby tackles the Documentary Hypothesis. Share this: Digg this postRecommend on FacebookTweet about itSubscribe to the comments on this postTell a friend

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Authorship of the Pastoral Epistles

Daniel Kirk of Storied Theology summarizes his reasons for concluding that Paul is not the author of the Pastoral Epistles (H/T: Euangelion). His opening remarks are worthy of reflection: First, the freedom to pursue the question was instilled in me … Continue reading

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Worry

Therefore do not worry, saying “What will we eat?” or “What will we drink?” or “What will we wear?” For it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and indeed your heavenly Father knows that you need all … Continue reading

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Are You a Scholar or Merely an Intellectual?

From The Gorgomons (via Pseudo-Polymath): Confucius is not an intellectual. Confucius is a scholar. Scholars dig through dusty tomes to find things like the recipe for the Liao Drug, and if they have an ounce of self-awareness, realize their expertise … Continue reading

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My Church Isn’t “Manly,” and I Like It That Way

I’m afraid to click on the link at Ben Myers’s Faith and Theology blog for the “MAN CHURCH.” It’s enough for me to know that these people, whoever they are, are trying to create church the way a man expects … Continue reading

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Greek Alphabet Song

The poet Kallias wrote a Greek alphabet song in the fifth century BC. I discovered several years ago that it can be sung to the hymn tune CLONMEL, which Baptists may know as the tune to “We Praise You with … Continue reading

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The Historical Jesus and the Gospel of John

Paul N. Anderson explains how the two really can go together: Think of it! What would happen if the National Geographic Channel ran a special on a recently discovered gospel text from the late first century, which was different from … Continue reading

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