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Stop looking for the historical Jesus! 27 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
I stopped looking for the historical Jesus years ago. Here is a list of all we “know” about Jesus from sources outside the Bible: 1. There was a man named Jesus. 2. Jesus had a brother named James. ...
Sexist and racist language 27 Aug 2013 | 05:16 pm
Sexist and racist language are not victimless crimes. Language is the thread that ties a people together, so to choose language that reinforces unjust power relationships is to participate in that inj...
Thimble Sermons: “The Begats” 26 Aug 2013 | 06:19 pm
In Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus, he traces the lineage through four women who might have been stoned had people applied the Bible literally to them. Rahab was a prostitute, Tamar posed as a prostitute...
Judge not 26 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
The Pope was recently lauded for saying of homosexual persons, “who am I to judge?” The statement was revealing of how easily a person can hide prejudice from him or herself. If the Pope does not judg...
D 24 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
The “I have a dream” speech is probably the best known of Martin Luther King’s speeches, but the “I have a dream” part wasn’t in his original text. That was a litany he had used many times before in o...
Natural law 23 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
The argument from “natural law” made sense in a pre-scientific church, but now that biology is a science, you can be pretty sure any theologian who uses the term “natural law” is only turning to biolo...
Did US Allies use 8 year old to target drone strike? 23 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
Gregory Johnsen of the Atlantic has report that a drone strike in Yemen against an accused Al Qaeda soldier was made possible because US allies in the region convinced an 8 year old boy to put a chip ...
Conviction of Manning is only half the story 22 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
So, unless there is a presidential pardon, 25 year old Bradley Manning will spend at least the next seven years in prison, and possibly, the next 35. But the big story is not about Manning. The big...
The Parable of Hitler’s Son 22 Aug 2013 | 05:08 pm
Imagine that Hitler won World War 2. Imagine that he conquered America killing and imprisoning millions. The rest of our nation’s population would be reduced to slavery building his monuments and buil...
Why I have not left religion 21 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
“Religion” is perhaps the least definable of words. William James spent a good bit of time trying to clarify the concept in his book “Varieties of Religious Experience,” but could find no stereotypes ...
