Today Jim offered us an interlude of comments put on student’s report cards. It’s alleged these all genuinely have been written in New York, and all I can say is that they obviously get around, and have been around. My guess is some of them appeared on Zwingli’s report card from his theology teacher. However, [...]
Prompted by reading James McGrath’s post (and expanding a comment I left there) I make a brief contribution to the Blog Co-op requested by April DeConick (who I hope will yet respond to being tagged with the Excellent meme).
Tertullian indulges in rhetoric, both in saying “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” (Prescription against Heretics [...]
In marking some basic doctrine assignments (comparing the Nicene Creed with a metrical version of it) I was very impressed by some students’ ability to spot the serious implications of what might have seemed like an insignificant change on the surface. As well as marking them I decided one or two deserved a special award.
No [...]
I don’t know what they were looking for, but I’m awfully tempted to try the same search myself:
psychoses Calvinism
More hits than you could count, I would have thought, wallowing in total depravity and damning people for eternity on a divine whim.
Mind you, I’ve no idea how they ended up here. None of my psychoses are [...]
It has always seemed obvious to me that whenever anyone says “the obvious meaning of this text / word is …” they are about to say something that is far from obvious to everyone else. This thought was prompted (again) by Andrew’s post on I Corinthians 6:9-10 and the words malakoi and arsenokoitai. I would [...]
I’ve found blogging (well, life really, but don’t talk to me about life, me with a pain in all the diodes down my left side — AKA and IRL a trapped nerve in my shoulder) a real struggle for energy and ideas over the last few days, so it’s an encouragement to get any [...]
John Hobbins has encouraged me to comment on his responses to a Bible meme he really doesn’t like. His three responses are here, here and here, getting progressively more focussed onto the relationship between the covenants and their respective scriptural testimonies. He blames Peter Kirk for what he calls an “appallingly superficial” meme. If he [...]
I see that, faute de mieux, Tyler Williams (whom we welcome back after a blogging hiatus) has declared my unofficial December carnival to be the official one for that month. I am honoured to have my warblings so accounted among the canon, and, indeed, have now felt obliged to put my name forward for an [...]
This proved to be an extremely effective discussion starter and thought provoker at church tonight (even though it’s not my sort of music).
No, that’s not a smug title — not really. But I feel a need to publicly acknowledge that I’ve now gone four weeks without a cigarette. I’m well aware that there’s a long way to go, so I hope I’m not giving a hostage to fortune with this post. This has not been as hard [...]
