Recent Posts Tagged With 'christianity'

• The Messiah-Maker

  Posted on Saturday December 19th, 2009 at 21:21 in christianity, Jewish, Messiah, history, messianic, revolution, john the baptist, gnostics, simon magus, testimonium flavianum

  Jim Davila shared a link to an article by Geza Vermes about the Testimonium Flavianum, the more famous and more detailed of Josephus' two references to Jesus. While some still think that the whole thing may be a later insertion by Christians, th...

• Three Religions Meme

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 13:06 in christianity, Mysticism, Islam, judaism, sufism, Religions, sufi, taoism, panentheism, inclusivism, reconstructionism, reconstructionist

  Kay at Ephemeral Thoughts tagged me with a meme. As she wrote, "The rules of the meme are to list three religions, apart from your own, that you find fascinating and why."I was tempted to list "conservative Christianity" and explain what I like about...

• NOT How I View The Relationship Between Science and Faith

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 12:10 in jesus, science, christianity, humor, Faith, Evolution, creationism, smackdown, charles darwin

  The image below does not reflect how I view the relationship between religion and science. But it is funny nevertheless, and it does reflect the views of some people.HT Eric Michael Johnson, who shared it in a post that is worth reading, focusing on ...

• Heroes Biblical Studies Carnival?

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 22:12 in christianity, heroes, Carnival, symbolism, chuck

  The last two episodes of Heroes (which are the last episodes until January) have been full of religious terminology and symbolism. Last week we had some discussion of the soul and evil. This week, we watched Sylar get crucified and Peter encouraged t...

• Two Subjects of Great Importance

  Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 08:07 in christian, christianity, Online, youtube, relationship, Jewish, judaism, lecture

  Celucien L. Joseph has shared a video of Amy-Jill Levine lecturing on Jewish-Christian relations.And AKMA has shared a link to 15(ish) things you should know about coffee, that elixir of scholarship that is central to so many of our lives....

• Almost a Literalist

  Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 18:04 in christianity, humor, Bible, satire, possessions, literal, biblical literalism, literalists

  I think this is one of the best cartoons on so-called Biblical literalism I have ever seen (HT Experimental Theology). You may need to click through to get the full-sized version....

• Monotheism Meeting?

  Posted on Tuesday October 27th, 2009 at 11:15 in christianity, judaism, new orleans, lunch, christology, monotheism, sbl, society of biblical literature

  I was just talking with someone currently doing research on John's Christology and Jewish monotheism, and the thought occurred to me that it might be useful for a bunch of us who are interested in this subject to meet up for lunch one day at SBL.Anyo...

• Harry Potter

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 21:30 in christianity, Bible, reading, Magic, harry potter, Sacrifice, symbolism

  I finished reading the last of the Harry Potter books with my son this evening. He'd read them all before at some point, although he was younger then and so I'm not sure he got or remembered everything. I'd already heard about some of the religious t...

• Education and Evolution

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 08:17 in education, jesus, christianity, star, Indianapolis, gospel, Faith, University, Evolution, biology, Mark, evangelical

  I may when I have more time say more about Russ Pulliam's second piece on evolution and faith. The main thing that disturbs me is that he envisages a hypothetical scenario in which one chooses institutions of higher education based on the grade you'l...

• More Monotheism

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 09:29 in christianity, Radio, new testament, unbelievable, christology, monotheism, richard bauckham, james crossley

  I have only begun to listen to it, but there can be no doubt that the recent episode of the UK radio program Unbelievable, which features Richard Bauckham and James Crossley discussing monotheism and Christology in earliest Christianity, is worth lis...