Thursday, January 03, 2013 I finished ‘Sacred Word/Broken Word’ by Kenton Sparks – that along with Peter Enns’ ‘Incarnation and Inspiration’, Christian Smith ‘Making the Bible Impossible’ and Lawrence Boadt ‘Reading the OT’ pretty much sums up the
Now scientists accept that Newtonian mechanics works for physical processes on a certain ‘local’ scale, but its scope is not boundless. On a very large scale, it is relativity physics that we must use, not
‘Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts’ by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (Mar 2008): “People will bend over backwards to reduce dissonance in a
2/2/2010 10:09:46 AM I was struck by a comment made toward the end of the God Journey podcast in which the guest was Steve McVey. In the discussion it was remarked that the traditional approach
I was not able to enter empathetically into the spontaneity and boundary-shattering milieu of the early church, having been raised in a rationalistic, scholastic religion. I was circumscribed by deadly fears of heresy and dogmatically
I am reading Bart Ehrman book, How Jesus Became God, pretty similar material to various Marcus Borg books I have read, like ‘Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary.’ They both
Henderson the Rain King is a seriocomic novel by Saul Bellow, first published in 1959. The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Henderson’s search for meaning. A
1/8/2010 12:30:31 PM Pretty good article on Jesus studies from Atlantic, published 1986. “The most important corrective of historical scholarship has been to begin to alter the view of many Christians that basically Jesus is
8/12/2009 8:22:18 AM(Bovel died in 2012) In Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic (Brazos, 2009), former ETS president Francis Beckwith writes: “My Evangelical Protestant contemporaries seemed to treat the Bible as if it
To Have and Have Not (Hemingway, Ernest) – Your Highlight on page 136 | Location 2360-2362 | Added on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 8:40:04 PM The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his