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Still Reimagining Christmas: On the Nativity 25 Dec 2010 | 07:30 am
I put up the following post last year on December 15th. I reread it and felt it still adequately (perhaps fallibly) represents my musings on Christmas, God, and the nativity relevant for this season. ...
House of Isaiah 4 Mar 2010 | 10:00 am
Please take a few minutes and view this video. This Recovery Program is the one that saved my life. I went to 9 treatment centers in 4 states and this program is the one that helped me. I presently se...
The expanse of Empire through Taxation of the Rich = Failure 6 Feb 2010 | 03:14 pm
I can’t wait to see how President Obama’s taxing of the rich fails as it already has in New Jersey, see here. It seems class warfare probably isn’t going to “equalize” monetary status among individual...
Meeting and Engaging with Dr. Mark Goodacre of Duke University 22 Jan 2010 | 08:24 pm
Well, today was a rather fantastic day. I had the great privilege of sitting in, for the first time, on a dissertation defense. While the dissertation material itself was quite fascinating and an inte...
Book Release: New Edited Volume on Acts 17 Jan 2010 | 04:22 pm
Trajectories in the Book of Acts, edited by Paul Alexander, Jordan D. May, and Robert G. Reid is now available from Wipf and Stock here. I’m also thrilled with the cover art, although I found one thi...
Pat Robertson: Beyond Fundamentalist Stupidity… 15 Jan 2010 | 09:32 am
Pat Robertson, a so-called Christian leader, is infamous for saying completely ridiculous things in the name of God, does it yet again…. evidently God punished the Haitians for “making a pact with the...
Obama: Fearmonger-In-Chief 18 Dec 2009 | 09:11 am
Note the following video, depicting the Fearmonger-In-Chief threatening utter desolation for America without passage of his bill: It’s a good thing we have moved on to politics of the future and past...
Reimagining Christmas: On the Nativity 15 Dec 2009 | 08:25 pm
As a budding biblical studies scholar, I have spent the better part of my educated life studying the biblical texts and the world in which the texts were written. To be sure, my understanding of Jesus...
Fantastic Apocalyptic Monograph 9 Dec 2009 | 03:46 pm
I am presently working through a fantastic monograph: Benjamin E. Reynolds, The Apocalyptic Son of Man in the Gospel of John (WUNT 249; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008). I highly comment this for your re...
Obama, Metanarratives, and the flight from reality… 1 Dec 2009 | 10:11 am
There is an exceptional article on Politico today that gets at what I have previously commented on, which has relevance to both imperial-critical studies generally and the present American political l...
