Sorry I’ve been out for the past week, been a little hectic at themattandbeckyscott household, both of us started our summer semester classes. On top of that, this was the final week of school for our county school system, which makes my job rather insane, so I had very little free time to work with. [...]
I’ve been a fan of Ehrman since I read “Misquoting Jesus” a year back, and I’m glad to report that “Jesus, Interrupted” follows the same vein started in “Misquoting” but in my opinion Ehrman makes a few crucial changes to his approach, that make “Jesus, Interrupted” even better than “Misquoting Jesus.” In “Jesus, Interrupted” Ehrman [...]
It’s not noon on Sunday yet… so I’m counting this as a Saturday roundup. I make the rules ’round here. Star Trek, if you haven’t seen it… go see it. (On the other hand, Terminator, if you haven’t seen it, before sure to shut off your ability to think before actually going to see it). [...]
I have no ultimate conclusion here, only an admittance that I am understanding just how little I really understand. Just another stroke in the continual greying of what I’m beginning to see as a very grey theological matrix.
I was a bit surprised at the number of responses I got from my first post entitled “Drawing Lines,” I have a few regular commenters (all of whom I greatly appreciate and your comments influence me more than I let on), but I had quite a few different/new voices respond to me in that post. [...]
You’ll have to excuse my absence last week, something about being in the hospital kind of messes up your ability to follow a schedule. I’ll blame my not posting this yesterday on the ER visit I made Friday morning (around 4 AM), I had some sort of reaction to something and spent all night from [...]
I really need to quit with the dualist titles. After a conversation with my best friend about the film and this post, I feel I should clarify- Take this more as a review than an indictment on those who liked it, or the entirety of the genre in general. My best friend had some other [...]
I have the pleasure of being part of quite an interesting cohort. While I imagine (and based of my experiences at a second cohort I’ve been to a few times) most cohorts are, at least theologically, progressive in nature, several of the attendees at the cohort I’m a part of are more conservative in nature. [...]
I stated a few months ago that “If our beliefs do not inform the actions of our everyday lives, they are dead.” When I wrote that post I meant the idea of our beliefs informing our actions as a good thing, but Blake twittered a link that actually leads down the other side of the [...]
A lot has been said, at least in the circle I run in, about the Pew Forum study on the approval of torture. Most of what I have read is a condemnation of Evangelicals for their apparent lack of moral standing on the issue. Beyond that first topic I’ve also read calls from evangelicals to [...]