Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Going to Israel Tomorrow

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This blog will be out of commission for a while. Linda and I will leave tomorrow for 13 days in Israel. We'll land in Tel Aviv with our ...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

Northern Illinois University's Nietzschean Killer?

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Before he went on his shooting rampage Steven Kazmierczak sent a package to his girlfriend. In the package was: a textbook for her class abo...

Paulos's Inelegant Non-Argument Against Jesus

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John Allen Paulos's " Irreligion" contains a chapter on Jesus. I find it so inadequate that, at most, it serves as autobiogra...
Friday, February 15, 2008

Hindu Extremists Persecute Christians in India

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Here's more detail on the recent violence against Christians in the Indian state of Orissa. From the CT article: "The violence bega...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Philosophy Exams

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Philosophy of Religion students: your oral exams will be held in A 173b . History of Western Philosophy students: your oral exams will be at...

Christians Persecuted in Egypt

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Sunday’s Jerusalem Post had this article on Christian converts in Egypt. I’ve had some pastors from Egypt in my doctoral classes I teach at ...
Monday, February 11, 2008

Ehrman's New Book Fails to Deal With the Problem of Suffering

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Bart Ehrman's new book comes out Feb. 19. It's called God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--...
Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Manga Samurai Jesus

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A review of The Manga Bible: From Genesis to Revelation , is found in nytimes.com here . "Ajinbayo Akinsiku wants the world to know Jes...

A Scientific Argument Against Abortion

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In today's nytimes.com Robert George of Princeton and Christopher Tollefsen of the University of South Carolina argue for the full perso...
Friday, February 08, 2008

N.T. Wright on Heaven

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N.T. Wright is interviewed by Time magazine on the idea of heaven here .