Evolutionary Links

Byhenry January 7, 2011

James McGrath has an interesting crop of evolutionary links from the blogosphere today.

Biblioblog Top 50 Demise (or Not) Bears Good Fruit

Byhenry December 4, 2009

If the demise of the monthly Biblioblog top 50 bears more fruit such as lists like this one from Doug Mangum, it could well be a good thing. At first I thought we had such a thing from Jim West, even including “pazang” in the rating, but now in the comments he says it’s based…

Biblical Criticism | Biblical Inerrancy | Biblical Inspiration | Religion

Links and Notes on Textual Criticism

Byhenry September 24, 2015

Jeremy Myers at Redeeming God has an interesting post on textual criticism (HT: Thomas Hudgins). Myers is comparing the textual commentaries written by Bruce Metzger (with input of the UBS committee) and Philip W. Comfort. It’s fun to watch the critical scholars disagree! If anyone believes I consider that a negative comment on critical scholars,…

Creation and Evolution | Intelligent Design

Creationism and Christianity

Byhenry July 19, 2007

One frequent response I get when criticizing certain views of creation is that I believe the people who hold those views are wrong, not really Christian, and/or are incredibly stupid. Now there are occasional folks whose intelligence seems questionable, though I prefer to question the intelligence of their arguments, and not their actual IQ. I…

Christian Ministry | Christianity | Religion

The Scandal of Unprepared Pastors

Byhenry January 31, 2014

In an article titled Why Do So Many Pastors Leave the Church? The Answer Will Shock You, one paragraph stood out to me: 90% feel they are inadequately trained to cope with the ministry demands and 90% of pastors said the ministry was completely different than what they thought it would be like before they…

Bible Backgrounds | Bible Commentary | Bible Passages | Biblical Inspiration | Religion

Irregular Verbs and Hermeneutics

Byhenry August 31, 2014

In a few minutes I’m leaving to teach Sunday School and we’re talking about the inspiration and authority of scriptures and/or of people who claim to speak for God. But first, I thought I’d write a quick note on the recent discussion of violence in the Old Testament hosted by Allan Bevere. (To follow this…

Administrative

Moderate Christian Blogroll Change

Byhenry December 8, 2007

The RSS feed for the Moderate Christian blogroll, useful for putting links in your sidebar, will be changing. Since many of the blogroll members don’t read the blogroll admin blog, I’m putting the announcement here as well. The old feed will be going away, and the new feed is already active. If you are using…