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From evolution to a rant on worship: round-up

April 10th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Rants, Round ups, Science & religion, Software

Having been away, I find there are too many blogs to catch up with. These are some of the things I would have interacted with more if I had been around.
There’s always a constant low background buzz about creation and evolution. It’s been bursting out all over lately. I was particularly struck by Chris Tilling’s [...]

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A withering(ton)ly bad apologetic

December 10th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Gospels, Historiography, Rants

I have often found many of Ben Witherington’s books helpful and insightful, but he offers an extraordinary post today on Luke’s infancy narrative. The ostensible point is the quite unexceptional one, that Luke’s language by no means necessitates an inn. (While he thinks, quite plausibly, that kataluma means the guest-room, I doubt the evidence, linguistic [...]

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No subculture here, please

October 14th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Rants

Dave Walker has drawn my attention to something I wish weren’t true. the first UK magazine for Christian men. I just hate the whole Christian subculture thing, and this has prompted me (not least in the light of other recent posts) to add a whole new category here: Rants.
And what about the content
The first issue [...]

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