Jesus matters, according to N. T. Wright, “not only in personal life, but also in political life.” The Perfect Storm (as in the movie) provides Wright with the images to paint the picture of a 1st century spiritual and political storm with Jerusalem as the geographical focal point; a collision of forces involving Rome, Judaism [...]
I don’t remember how, but I did it once and it wasn’t as hard as I imagined. We spent several days studying pictures of what a dissected frog would look like, with labels naming all the most important parts we would find. And the frogs were pre-dead so we didn’t have to worry about their [...]
“Christianity argues that natural law ethics comes from God and is written on the human heart, which is why there is a measure of commonality on ethical norms across cultures. Non-theists need a different explanation.” The book by Chuck Colson, Doing the Right Thing, insists that ethics are objective and universal; not relative; not based [...]
If the bible is what the biblicist claims it is it cannot accomplish the purpose for which the biblicist claim. The biblicist will claim, according to Christian Smith, that the intelligent, sincere readers of the bible will find a single interpretation of virtually any passage of scripture. That theory is deficient because it does not work that way in [...]
Excavators of the ruins at Kourion, an ancient Greek city on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, have discovered how the inhabitants responded to a devastating earthquake that struck in AD 365. Amid the ruins, they uncovered a fossilization of family love.