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Dr TK Dunn on the Importance of the Old Testament
This is an extract from a longer interview, which I will also embed. I think Dr. Dunn has some valuable comments on the relationship of scripture and what it means for our study. And here’s the full interview from which that was extracted.
Fences: Mending or Rending
The following is a sermon I presented at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Pensacola on September 11,2005 and originally posted here on September 13, 2005. I’m reposting it because when I went to look for it, I found that the original post had somehow been truncated, and also because there is a one word at a…
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Promising Series on TNIV, HCSB, and NAB
I think Kevin Sam over at New Epistles has made an excellent choice in selecting these three translations to study as “intermediate” and he’s off to a good start explaining why he’s doing it. I note his apology for the term “intermediate,” but that is not such a bad choice of language. I rate translations…
The Definition of Kind Needs Work
There’s a new species of lizard.
Some Thoughts on Intelligent Design
. . . by Bruce Alderman
Something is Wrong in Florida
Hmmm! I would guess nobody is surprised about that. We seem to draw more than our share of attention down in these parts. But I’m seeing three interesting things: We passed a property tax reform bill with the support of our governor. Though I generally like Governor Crist, I voted against it, because I agreed…
Is Come or Has Come in 1 John 4:2
It’s probably a sin, but I simply couldn’t resist. I recorded a video response to a YouTube KJV Only video.
Comparing 1 Peter 3:13
Yesterday I commended the HCSB translation of this verse. Today let me give a couple of other options: HCSB: “And who will harm you if you are passionate for what is good?” REB: “Who is going to do your harm if you are devoted to what is good?” [Doesn’t read well, in my view, even…
Revisiting Acts 17:26
Yesterday I blogged about the HCSB of Acts 17:26, and in particular the portion that reads something like “made of one ______”. The KJV reads “blood” which is one of the textual variants, while the HCSB says “man” which apparently does not occur in any of the ancient manuscripts. Since I read these lectionary texts…
Another View on Christians, Creation, and Evolution
. . . from Lingamish. Speaking of creationists who aren’t stupid. 
Are Creationists Stupid?
Many people get the idea from my posts on evolution that I believe all creationists are stupid or at least irremediably ignorant. In today’s atmosphere, that may be a reasonable view to take from the posts, but I don’t mean it that way, and I don’t intend to accept the current atmosphere. In current American…
Joe Carter’s 10 Ways Darwinists Help ID
I found these 10 ways rather amusing (part 1, part 2, part 3. Perhaps we should all take advice from the opposition and say just the things they’d like us to say. Here’s my response, briefer than my usual! Well, if ID advocates would just define an actual theory and quit trying to disguise the…
Becoming a Pensacola Pelicans Fan
I very rarely post personal stuff here, but you’re going to have to put up with just a little bit. My son John Webb is a professional pitcher. He has portions of two seasons at the big league level, and a considerable amount of AAA time. He didn’t get that big league contract this year,…
Good Review of Expelled
… at Higgaion.
Does a Woman get her Glory from Man?
Dave Warnock says emphatically NO!
HCSB Acts 17:26 – ADDING Male Representation?
Besides doing my morning reading from various versions, on those days when I read from the original languages, I sometimes have one of the English versions out for comparison. Today I noticed something rather interesting. In Acts 17:26, where the Greek reads ex henos, the HCSB reads “From one man”. In addition they footnote it,…
Missing the Point on Darwin and Hitler
Supposing some scientist goes out into some wilderness area and observes the behavior of predators with a species of herd animals. He observes that the slowest and weakest of the herd animals tend to fall prey to the predators while the stronger or faster ones survive. This scientist comes back and and reports on this…
Why I Hate the KJV
OK, I just can’t resist taking a poke at the KJV-Only movement every so often. This time I did it on video. Stand by for more!
Why I Hate the KJV
Well, confession is good for the soul. It’s time I own up to all that deep seated, seething hatred for the KJV. And thus, my first effort on YouTube, crossed with video blogging: See! That was easy!
A Coherent Foreign (and Domestic) Policy
I have thought since 2004 that if John Kerry had managed to appear to have an actual policy on terrorism, a strategy for how to make a safer United States and world, he would now be president. As it was, he was perceived to be proposing pretty much what Bush was doing only less of…
Expelled: No Mainstream Scientists Allowed
Well, I got past my hardware problems, and then started to read my e-mail and some of my RSS feeds. First, I came across an e-mail from Christianity Today’s ChristianBibleStudies.com, from which I often get useful material. Today, they’re wanting me to pay $5.95 for a discussion of the movie that I can use in…
Bad Hardware Day
For all who have come to expect me to be prolific, I have but one post for today. I’m having hardware problems. I decided to upgrade a couple of things related to putting out my podcast, and the upgrades, which should have been simple, have been anything but. I assume I will have a working…
Patriotism: What Do I Owe my Country?
I like to think of myself as a patriot, but then there are times when I shy away from the term because of some things that are done in the name of patriotism. I served my country in uniform, even while disagreeing with many of the policies of my government. Despite any disagreements, I carried…
Green Roofs for the Environment and Economic Benefit
In popular discussions of ecological issues, which as a non-expert is all I’m privy to, it seems to me that each potential solution is judged as a solution to the whole problem. For example, the question in biofuels seems be whether they can solve dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuel emissions on their own….
Freedom to Insult
. . . is a necessary part of free speech. Laura has it right: I dont have much in common with Brigitte Bardot, an elderly French actress, or Pat Condell, a British atheist, or with Kathy Shaidle, Ezra Levant, and Mark Steyn, a partial list of Canadians whose free speech is endangered. Except this: a…
Jon Stewart on the Obama Gaffe
While personally I think Obama got caught uttering a truth, or at least something he actually believes, I personally record it as a negative, because as president he needs to control his tongue. It doesn’t change the fact that I will vote for him. It’s just that in a very disciplined campaign, it’s disappointing. If…