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• Best Apologist Ever?

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 538
  Given my work in Biblical studies, my interest in religion and science, my taste in music and my sense of humor, you may not be surprised that I think that I may have found my all-time favorite "apologist": Let me know what you think...
  1 week ago

• Do Media Refs Do This Too? It Would Explain a Lot

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 121
  If “winning” and not good governance is all the most vicious partisans care about, their political game plan would look just like the Illini’s foul play and it would work out for them, especially on tv. A theory with excellent predictive value! ESPN dot comNovember 23, 2009Associated PressThey don’t all need ...
  1 week ago

• Review of The Lost World Of Genesis One: Conclusion

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 538
  John H. Waltons The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate provides a very helpful overview of issues related to the study of the creation account in Genesis 1, its historical and cultural background, and its relationship (or lack thereof) to the theory of evolution and modern science ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Liar, The Witch, and the KKK’s Wardrode

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 121
  Sarah Palin’s presidential-ambition-blessing pastor was a real, literal witch-hunter and witch-persecutor. No joke. Now comes another no-joke witch story, one I saw earlier today in the Chronicle of Higher Education weekly round-up by Don Troop, under the irresistible and accurately newsworthy headline, “The Liar, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Religious Left Emerges, Religious Right Erodes

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 121
  From my hometown newspaper this morning at the heart of Gator Nation and in the South — even though it’s something I can be proud of this time rather than apologize for, like what passes for good communal citizenship just down the road from UF in a giant corporate enclave of relatively wealthy and self-serving ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Say You, Horatio?

  
  A Feather Adrift — Authority: 422
  The bible is a curious document. Some, for fairly self-serving reasons, suggest that it must be read with childlike wonder, allowing the Spirit to guide understanding. While this is certainly part of the process, there is no need to deny our rational mind when doing so. Many suggest that treating the bible as an ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Year of Living Biblically

  
  thinktoomuch.net — Authority: 107
  About two weeks ago a friend gave me his copy of The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs. I had read all about it in 2007, having added the following to my mini-blog / delicious bookmarks ( biblical+living ): 27 SEP 07 A year of following all the rules in the Bible – Boing Boing “I did everything the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Beef Jerky Action Cam??

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 121
  I am not making this up. Here I am, watching the big college football game of the week on tv — LSU v Alabama — suddenly wondering how I can be so riveted by any meme that involves a “beef jerky action cam!”Posted in colleges and universities, Cynical Stuff, Framing, Health, Humor, Identity, Language, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Almost a Literalist

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 538
  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.
  4 weeks ago

• Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Channels Glenn Beck

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 121
  more about "Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Ch…", posted with vodpod Posted in Advocacy, Cognitive Psychology, Creative Class, Cynical Stuff, Discipline-behavior, Dominionists, Ethics and Philosophy, Framing, Health, Humor, Journalism, Language, learning, Liberties and Rights, Literacy, Literalism, Logic, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Capitol Hill Mad Hatters Show Up for More Tea Partying

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 121
  Tea Partiers Hit Capitol:They arrived as early as 8:30 a.m., by bus, car and plane — from Bluffton, S.C., Des Moines and Dorris, Calif. — to rally with conservative lawmakers and possibly roam the halls of Congress.“Can you hear us now!” they chanted from the foot of the Capitol, as they awaited the arrival of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Maine Repeals Gays as Human; Public School Parent Protests Gays as Animals

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 121
  Dan Delong of Carlinville, Ill., at teacher at Southwestern High School in the nearby town of Piasa, will face a school board hearing November 2, after being suspended from teaching. A parent of one unidentified student thought the optional reading assignment was inappropriate for her child . . .When this and this ...
  4 weeks ago

• Divine Considerateness – How God Speaks to Us

  
  Fr. Ted's Blog — Authority: 130
  This is the second and concluding blog in which I am commenting on Robert Hill’s READING THE OLD TESTAMENT IN ANTIOCH.  The first blog was titled Reading the Old Testament in Ancient Antioch .   I ended the first blog with Hill’s comment: “ The Scriptures, like the Incarnation, come to us as a gesture of ...
  5 weeks ago

• Young Son the Political and Cultural Cynic

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 121
  So you know he’s been reading Les Miserables, all 1,400 pages.I guess it makes sense he would relate the author’s social themes to his own present reality as synced up with his own favorite social commentary artists by night, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and as opposed to the years of rantings and vitriol ...
  5 weeks ago

• How Do You Define What’s Up (at pussy)Cat’s?

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 121
  The latest round of thinking parents playing “What’s in a Name?” as a floating blog-game of religion and politics costumed as each other for Halloween, apparently started with Lynn and JJ and many commenters both places, riffing on Frank Schaeffer’s books and his new MSNBC repudiation of the evangelical ...
  5 weeks ago

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