A Follow-Up to the Story of the Woman Taken in Adultery
Yesterday we looked at a cartoon riff on the story of the Woman Taken in Adultery. Short take, while I appreciate what the cartoonist was trying to get at, I
Yesterday we looked at a cartoon riff on the story of the Woman Taken in Adultery. Short take, while I appreciate what the cartoonist was trying to get at, I
So about this: Except that is not, in fact, what happened or what Jesus, in fact, said. 1. The woman had, in fact, sinned. She was caught in the very
Being as how it’s his feast day, I thought we’d discuss the odd fact that Mark’s gospel famously has a resurrection narrative without a Risen Jesus. And when the sabbath
This take can only be achieved by taking what Jesus himself said about his death (“The Son of Man came to give his life as a ransom for many… This
The fundamental problem of Fundamentalism, whether atheist or religious, is the same. Whether it’s a chest-beating Youtube announcing that RICHARD DAWKINS DESTROYS THE BIBLE IN FIVE MINUTES!!!!, a Bible thumper
Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to your name give glory, for the sake of your mercy and your faithfulness! Why should the nations say, “Where is
Here’s a class bent on teaching you how to not read the primary documents of the Christian faith for what they say, but for what the teacher wants them to
Every once in a while, but especially at Easter, we get articles like this, asking where the disciples of Jesus got their idea that Jesus rose from the dead. This
It’s not an issue of wilful bias particularly. It’s an issue of not-particularly-interested-generalists having to tackle stories they don’t know all that much about, usually on a deadline. What you
Over on the Book of Face, I ran across this, the umpteenth restatement of a hoary claim that keeps returning like a zombie from the grave: Modern Christianity mostly revolves
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