To paraphrase John Cleese, "and now for something completely overdue." A couple years ago I was sent a copy of Mark Roncace's book, Raw Revelation: The Bible They Never Tell You About for review on this blog, with the understanding that it might take a little while...
I suppose it's about as good a time as any to deal with this popular misinterpretation, given Harold Camping's ridiculous prediction that the church will be raptured at 6PM on May 21 (time zone by time zone, no less!). Yet again, the passage in question...
It occurred to me in the process of thinking about the similarities between much of the rhetoric used by those screaming about anthropogenic climate change and "rapture watchers" that the very fact that their rhetoric is so simple is one reason that climate change arguments...
My review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader movie has been posted at the Journal of Religion and Film (accessible through this link). My review references the original script, part of which was leaked to the public in 2008, causing...
[caption id="attachment_2126" align="alignright" width="300"] No war is ever civil.[/caption] In Part One, we looked at how Washington, DC, pastor Anthony Evans' declaration that the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a case challenging the DC gay marriage law has set up a "civil war between the church...
In Part One, we looked at how Washington, DC, pastor Anthony Evans' declaration that the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a case challenging the DC gay marriage law had "set up ...
In the wake of the Supreme Court refusing to hear a case challenging the Washington, DC law recognizing gay marriages, DC pastor Anthony Evans has declared a "civil war between the church and the gay community": "[W]hat the Supreme Court has set up is the greatest...
Alternet has posted an article, "What Happened When Fundamentalist Christians Tried to 'Cure' Me of Homosexuality," in which "a young gay man recounts his soul-crushing experience being 'rehabilitated' by the Christian Right," taken from "My Nightmare Experience at Teen Challenge," which was posted on the...
Interesting how things can work in today's soundbite culture. (I should preface this with a disclaimer that this post does not not advocate O'Donnell as a candidate. For one, I think it would be better to have representatives who didn't fudge their academic backgrounds, as...
Had some fun with my Historical Jesus course last night, asking my students (who had just finished reading Mark) to answer the following question: What exactly did Jesus preach? Eventually, one enterprising student rightly called attention to Mark 1:14–15, After John had been handed over, Jesus went...