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New Blog 1 Sep 2008 | 05:34 am
Based upon the ads that the livejournal admin have decided to place on my blog (against my will and against commitments previously made to livejournal users), I have decided to switch to a wordpress b...
Regarding the Poor as Members of the Body of Christ 31 Aug 2008 | 08:23 am
Jonas (http://blog.bahnhof.se/wb938188) recently asked me this question, based upon my review of Jon Sobrino's latest book: Would you like to explain the view of the poor as Christ´s body? Does that ...
Eschatology and Ethics (a brief response) 31 Aug 2008 | 05:15 am
Michael of "Pisteoumen" recently posed a question regarding the possible relationship between eschatology and ethics (cf. http://michaelhalcomb.blogspot.com/2008/08/eschatology-ethics.html). Not surp...
Ads?! 29 Aug 2008 | 02:47 pm
So, I just noticed that livejournal is running ads on my blog. Oddly enough, the ads don't appear when I'm signed-in to my account. This, I assume, is because I chose a low-quality account precisely b...
June-July Books (overdue as usual) 20 Aug 2008 | 04:55 am
[Pardon the typos and grammatical errors, I pounded these off, and haven't yet had time to proof-read.] 1. The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire by Neil Elliott. Ever sinc...
Come on, People! 19 Aug 2008 | 08:42 am
The other day, I had a particular encounter that surprised me -- not because of how I responded, but because of how everybody else responded. I was walking down the alley behind my house, heading to t...
Capitalism and Homosexuality 16 Aug 2008 | 08:28 am
In certain Left-leaning Christian circles, it is not uncommon to hear the claim that the current attention being given to homosexuality, is due to the ways in which capitalism impacts our self-percept...
On Failing (an aspect of the imago dei?) 13 Aug 2008 | 09:47 pm
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett, Westward Ho. For the last several months I have been coming up against many of my own limits, and many of the...
What do we do with Acts and the Deutero-Pauline epistles? 11 Aug 2008 | 02:38 pm
A good many New Testament (NT) scholars have demonstrated the value of reading the NT in light of extra biblical sources -- be those sources literary, epigraphic, numismatic, or archaeological. Hence,...
The Pietà: Christ Bleeds in a Thousand Places 9 Aug 2008 | 11:48 am
About two weeks ago, I saw something that has stayed with me... something almost unspeakable. It impacted me very deeply, so much so that I did not tell anybody, not even my wife, until about a week a...
