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Ethics and Disgust 25 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
Thabiti Anyabwile has come under a lot of criticism from many quarters for his recent post on the gag reflex and Christian opposition to same-sex sexual acts, increasingly called "homosex" of late. [I...
Daleks, Contradictions, and Religious Belief 7 Aug 2013 | 09:13 pm
I recently rewatched the 1975 Doctor Who episode "Genesis of the Daleks" by Terry Nation. Some online discussions I looked at about "Genesis of the Daleks" made some interesting, and to my mind obviou...
Discussion of the Reality of Race 16 Jul 2013 | 08:38 pm
In Thabiti Anyabwile's response to the George Zimmerman verdict yesterday, he made some comments about his ongoing position on the unreality of race, which I've tried to engage with him on before. I'm...
Philemon, Jude, 2-3 John sermons 15 Jul 2013 | 07:51 am
The preaching schedule for this set of teachings includes four topical sermons from the end of June through early July and then the final four epistles that complete Trinity Fellowship's coverage of t...
Forced Fatherhood and Voluntary Responsibility 15 Jun 2013 | 05:11 pm
Laurie Shrage is a well-respected philosopher who writes a lot about feminist issues. She wrote a piece for the NYT this week that seems to me to undermine one of the key feminist contentions found in...
Christian Carnival CDLII 7 Jun 2013 | 08:01 pm
The 452nd Christian Carnival, covering Christian blog posts for the month of May, is at The Chic of Domesticity. It includes my Zadok post.
Doctor Who and Race 28 May 2013 | 10:01 pm
Apparently a new book is out (or perhaps is about to come out), analyzing Doctor Who and race, and it has angered someone at the BBC enough that they've come out with a response to the charge that the...
Zadok, Conspiracy Theories, and the High Priestly Line 20 May 2013 | 08:10 pm
Seven years ago I wrote a post explaining why I think a common theory among biblical scholars is both against our best evidence and unnecessary in order to explain a few puzzling features of the texts...
Common Misunderstandings of the Tenseless Theory of Time 30 Apr 2013 | 08:07 pm
I was glancing through the new issue of Themelios to see which articles to save to read later, and I noticed a review of a new book on time and timelessness that included a nice summary of a common co...
Ezra sermons 2 Apr 2013 | 12:08 am
The introductory and preaching schedule for this unit of teaching is here. I will add links to sermons as they are preached and available. 1. Ezra 1 "The LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of P...
