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Breaking News: Polygamy Is Bad for Women
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A Biblical Basis for Entrepreneurial Wives…and Lazy Husbands
I love Ben Witherington’s wonderful deconstruction of the whole “women-must-stay-home-and-keep-house” theology. It seems the patriarchalists have overlooked one teensy, tiny detail in attempting to superimpose biblical patterns of household relationships on the modern world: slaves. The household Paul has in … Continue reading
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A Quest for the Historical Constantine?
Now this looks interesting—and inflammatory! Scot McKnight is beginning a review of a book about Emperor Constantine: Peter Leithart, a polymath and a compelling thinker and writer, is laying down a challenge to the Anabaptists of this world and to … Continue reading
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No Protests at Funerals
I agree with Kris and Scott: … No protests at funerals (or weddings). If a person doesn’t have the decency to respect the seriousness and sacredness of certain events, then that person has earned compelled silence. Sure, this bites into … Continue reading
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Captain Picard Isn’t Going to Like This
David Gelernter explores what Jewish theology and ethics can tell us about relating to thinking machines. We’re not talking about the kinds of computers and AI systems around today but genuine, honest-to-goodness machines that can pass a Turing test and … Continue reading
Did God Command Joshua to Commit Genocide?
Of course not, and it is possible to say so while maintaining the highest possible view of Scripture. The key, as is so often the case, is to pay attention to literary genre—in this case, the conventional literary tropes ancient … Continue reading
Dancing Auschwitz
I’m not sure, but I think this is the first post I placed in both the “Ethics” and the “Tomfoolery” categories. It is definitely foolish—in the sense that the book of Esther and centuries of Jewish humor in the face … Continue reading
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To Kill a Mockingbird: the First 50 Years
Fifty years ago today, July 11, 1960, was the publication date of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. I loved the book when I first read it in Junior High School. I know someone who reads it every year. It’s … Continue reading
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A Quest for the Halakic Jesus
Wise words from John P. Meier, via Michael Bird: We return, then [after a study of the love commandment], to our theme song of the historical Jesus being the halakic Jesus. A ‘historical’ Jesus who is not involved in the … Continue reading
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An Offensive Image of Christ
This early second-century graffito may be the oldest known artistic representation of Jesus Christ. It was discovered in Rome 150 years ago. It depicts someone standing before a crucified man with the head of an ass. The crude Greek scrawl … Continue reading
