Posted in current events on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And he still thinks it was a good decision to go to war. Even though every reason he gave for it was false: there were no WMD, there was no connection (and still isn’t) between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. Nearly 4000 Americans are dead; tens of thousands wounded. Tens of thousands of Iraqis are dead. Thousands [...]
Posted in biblical studies, current events on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Always wary of ‘bible themed’ anything these days, I wasn’t too sure that the planned park in Murfreesboro, TN, would be different than the Creation Museum in Kentucky or several other of the poorly executed and biblically inaccurate similar projects. But it seems that the board working on the Murfreesboro park might have learned [...]
Posted in biblioblogs on March 18, 2008 | 15 Comments »
And he does it with panache. Apple Owners…. we know what you’re really all about now.
UPDATE: I find the following sentences from the essay quoted by Crossley in comments to be so true and resonate so well with my own sentiments that I am compelled to restate them here:
I hate Macs. I have [...]
Posted in current events, theology on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Chris Brady has drawn our attention to yet another example of a politician who can’t keep himself under any semblance of control. This time its the new Governor of New York who himself replaced a philanderer. Politicians…. they just aren’t to be trusted- not only because they share the Total Depravity gene, but because they [...]
Posted in current events on March 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Francis Schaeffer, famed darling of the far right (and especially of the Republican Party) said the same things that Jeremiah Wright has said. Don’t believe it? Well Frank Schaeffer says it’s so. If you don’t think racism is alive and well in America, even now, then you’ve simply closed your eyes. [...]
Posted in biblical studies, books on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
James Crossley has taken A.N. Wilson to the reviewing woodshed with a withering critique of Wilson’s criticism of Vermes’ recent book on Jesus’ resurrection. Now there’s nothing more delightful than the reviewing of a review! You learn tremendous things about the book, the original reviewer, and the subsequent reviewer of the reviewer as well. Perhaps [...]
Posted in archaeology on March 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The IAA has a report today (thanks to Joseph Lauer for pointing it out) about the discovery of a silver coin used to pay the Temple Tax.
In an archaeological excavation that is being conducted in the main drainage channel of Jerusalem from the time of the Second Temple, in the City of David, in the [...]
Posted in current events on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And it made me chuckle- because I can just imagine what their reaction to this sort of editorializing will be.
Posted in archaeology on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Antonio Lombatti has spotted a report concerning the discovery of a Neo-Babylonian city.
An ancient archeological city dating back to the neo-Babylonian era was unearthed in Diwaniya, the province’s museum curator revealed, noting the ancient wide city comprised buildings of an advanced architectural nature. “The Babylonian city was discovered in the district of al-Shamiya, (33 [...]
Posted in archaeology, biblical studies on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
No, but it grabs the eye doesn’t it. Which, I suppose, is the purpose of the National Geographic’s headline. Pressportal.de reports
Das Paradies, wie es in der Bibel beschrieben wird, muss ein göttlicher Ort gewesen sein: Mit fruchtbarem Boden, reichhaltigen Fischbeständen, friedliebenden Tieren - ein Ort ohne Krankheit, Trauer und Gewalt. Die Faszination für [...]
