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May 21 2013, 8PM

  A tornado flattened much of the town of Moore, Oklahoma with gale winds exceeding over 300 miles an hour. This was not the first time tornadoes visited the area of Oklahoma, better known as “Tornado Alley.” In 1998, 2003, and 2010, smaller t... [Askarabbi] [Bible] [Biblical Theology] [Contrarian wisdom] [Current Events] [Jewish in San Diego] [Stories for the Searching Heart] [Talmud, Zohar, and Midrash] [Theology and Philosophy]
The Sea of Galilee is called the “lake Gennesaret” by Luke (Luke 5:1). The area on the northwest corner of the Sea of Galilee is called the “land at Gennesaret.” In the view below we see the land of Gennesaret and the Via Maris. The travel route h... [Bible Lands] [Bible Places] [Bible study] [israel] [New Testament] [Photography] [Travel] [Ministry of Jesus]

7PM

"Happiness is something more than simply the absence of neurosis or sickness," said Emilia Zhivotovskaya. "To build a flourishing life, you want to minimize -- not eliminate! -- the negative and build the positive." Emiliya spoke with my cohort of Rabbis ... [Rabbis Without Borders]

6PM

Is this gem called Skyscanner. it’s brilliant. Filed under: Modern Culture [Modern Culture]

5PM

Acts 1:6-8 The Jesus Creed and God’s Mission One cold winter’s eve a world renowned scholar and missiologist was invited to speak to our church about Mission. As the pleasantries were dispensed with, the speaker invited questions.  One person asked... [mission] [The Jesus Creed] [evangelism] [Question]
When: October 4-6, 2013 Where: The Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ Keynote Speaker: Debra Lampshire Experience-based expert, Senior Tutor at the University of Auckland, and Project Manager for Auckland District Health Board in New Zealand Honorees: Mariu... [Conference announcement] [Psychoanalysis]
If you would like to help with the Oklahoma disaster relief you can do so through United Israel.  You can either send a check made out to UIWU and marked “Oklahoma Tornado Relief 2013″ or more directly via Paypal  by using the Donate link be... [Event] [General]

4PM

But I’m not going toblast myself to death about gay marriage. A far-right French historian shot himself in the head beside the altar of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris today apparently in protest against the legalisation of gay marriage in France. ... [Modern Culture]
This podcast, suggesting a gentle wry smile in Dt 1:6 was inspired by a blog post from Rabbi Michal Shekelk1nsh2s2 “Could it be possible to stay too long at the site of Revelation?” There are also quotes from: Tigay, J. Deuteronomy. Jewish Pub... [Deuteronomy] [humour]

3PM

This Saturday I will be presenting at the Ecclesia and Ethics Online Conference on “The Revealing of the Sons of God: Paul’s Restorative Eschatology in the Epistle to the Romans”. For those who are registered, and who are considering att... [conference] [conference] [Ecclesia and Ethics]

2PM

Robert Gordis suggests that,   "The outstanding literary characteristic of the author of Esther is his interest in the swift flow of the action. He, therefore, strips the plot of all non-essentials, concentrating on events rather than on motivations,... [Literary Analysis] [old testament] [Expository Preaching] [Esther] [Preaching]
As of today, Logos’ marketing department has 21 openings. We’re looking for writers, editors, coders, strategists, managers, and more, and we want to hear from you. So how do you land a job at Logos? 1. Be distinct “Objective: self-starter / team pl... [Company] [Misc] [careers] [jobs] [marketing] [marketing jobs]

12 PM

Este discurso, o mais complexo que até agora Francisco pronunciou sobre temas sociais, passou um pouco despercebido, apesar de conter uma denúncia precisa das causas do desequilíbrio social. E talvez tenha sido este o motivo da pouca atenção rec... [teologia]
One of my colleagues, Prof. Magnar Kartveit, at The School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger-Norway, is publishing a new book this spring: Rejoice, Dear Zion! Hebrew Construct Phrases with “Daughter” and “Virgin” as Nomen Regens (... [book] [old testament]

11AM

You can find it here. If you do not get this set, you are going to suffer from a mental, emotional, spiritual, and devotional deficit of the likes you’ve never seen. I have several of the hardcopies and they are absolutely essential if you want to b... [Logos Bible Software]
I have been saying in my posts on the violence of God that God inspired the biblical writers to say that He told them to do the violent things they did, even though He did not. The reason God did this was to take their sin upon Himself. Just as Jesus beca... [When God Pled Guilty]
In celebration of the 450th anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism, ISD presents two special volumes from Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Written in Heidelberg in 1563, it remains one of the most influential catechisms of the Reformed Church and is in ever... [Church History] [Heidelberg Catechism] [Herman Selderhuis] [ISD] [Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht]

10AM

Yesterday, as the devastating tornado ripped a path of destruction through Moore, Oklahoma, I watched the storm play out through the Facebook status updates of a friend who lived in the area. This friend is a Christian, and her response is similar to tha... [Moore Oklahoma tornado] [j. m. green]
From The Consensus Project: See here. [Uncategorized]
As Trinity Sunday approaches, there is bound to be an increase in blogging about the Trinity and about Christian views of God more generally. Here are some items that have already come across my radar: Allan Bevere suggests that the Trinity is not an appe... [Christianity] [Monotheism] [theology] [God] [Jewish] [Judaism] [monotheist] [monotheistic] [Mysticism] [shema] [Sunday] [Trinitarian] [Trinitarianism] [Trinity] [Triune]
Filed under: Modern Culture [Modern Culture]
There is some discussion going on about Pope Francis' encounter with a young man, captured in the video below. Articles on this are appearing everywhere from the Associated Press and ABC News to the Huffington Post and Salon. Everyone, it seems, is ta...

9AM

Via Pat McCullough and Robert R. Cargill on Facebook [humor]
Thanks to Tom Thatcher for letting me know about this conference, and to Jim West for announcing it in  his blog too, and for this Scribd version of the notice, which I am borrowing here: John, Jesus and History Conference (November 20-22 2013)
In my paper for my Intro to New Testament class, I raised the follow: Though prominently the disagreements between Paul and the so-called Jerusalem Pillars; what is noteworthy is that Paul seems to have, as well as earn, authority despite the fact that h... [Belief] [Life] [Minimalism] [Paul] [scholarship]
Texto a estudiar: Is 61, 1-3 1 El espíritu del Señor está sobre mí, porque el Señor me ha ungido, me ha enviado a llevar la noticia a los pobres, a vendar los corazones desgarrados, a anunciar a los cautivos la liberación y a los prisioneros la libe... [Nuevo Testamento] [Profeticos] [biblia] [comentario] [exegesis] [Isaias] [israel] [jesus] [la biblia]

8AM

BUSY WITH END-OF-TERM MARKING. I hope to be back tomorrow.
After about three years of waiting, I received today the newly-published Vol. 1 in The New Cambridge History of the Bible (eds. James Carleton Paget & Joachim Schaper) in which appears the discussion of “Writing and Book Production in the Hellen... [Uncategorized] [Important publications]
Pope Francis is actually a Christian.  Piper is a self aggrandizing prat. Filed under: Theology [theology]
Construct a well-rounded theology with this robust collection of academic resources. The 15-volume Baker Academic Theological Studies Collection includes everything from The Doctrine of God to Violence, Hospitality, and the Cross. The list of contribu... [Products] [baker theological studies] [discount] [Pre-Pub] [sale] [theology]
For my blog post today on Stephen Ambrose's Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician, 1962-1972, I'll use as my starting-point something that Ambrose says on page 140:"Through his life, Nixon revealed what he wanted to reveal, and hid what he wanted to hide.&... [Stephen Ambrose's Nixon] [Year (or More) of Nixon] [politics] [john birch society] [Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask]

7AM

This semester I had to write a (very) short overview of King’s premise and why it’s important.  I share it here, for my readership.  Enjoy. Karen King’s The Gospel of Mary of Magdala Karen King’s thesis in her monumental book The Gospel... [College] [early christianity] [jesus] [New Testament] [Reviews] [scholarship] [Student Life] [Gospel of Mary] [Karen King] [Overview] [theology]
Science is open to correction. In the event that evolution does become a “theory in crisis,” we will read about that in Scientific American, Nature and Science, not the blogs of the anti-Darwinian culture warriors. – Karl Giberson, &... [evolution] [intelligent design] [pseudoscience] [young-earth creationism] [crisis] [Darwin] [Karl Giberson] [science] [Theory]
Pete Enns probes an issue many Bible readers sense, and some answers to the retributive violence of God in the Old Testament simply won’t do. Of course, for both the Old and New Testaments, there are other examples we could look at. But the point re... [Uncategorized]
Via the Huff Po: Call it a midlife epiphany. After decades of pursuing money, titles and ever more stuff, baby boomers are coming to a big realization: Success and security just aren’t enough anymore. They want something more fulfilling out of life,... [church] [Christianity] [Culture] [faith] [Ministry] [news] [Priesthood]
Col Ralph Peters writes that the entire Arab world is in the process of reordering itself.   [Culture] [Falleness] [Islam] [Middle East] [news] [Terror]
Some people ask if there is any difference between nutrients in 'chemical' or 'organic' form, but that is really asking the wrong question. We should actually be asking how stable and soluble the nutrients are.—How to Grow Winter Vegetables, page 36... [theology] [Idle Musings] [food]

6AM

The concept of the deification of the dead as a universal religious phenomenon belongs to the evolutionist paradigm of 19th-century scholarship. Because the Hebrew Bible contains almost no evidence that family (or royal) ancestors were worshiped, it seems... [theology] [Idle Musings] [Books]
Dalla messa alla chiesa della Dormizione alla memoria della Pentecoste al Cenacolo. La Chiesa di Gerusalemme rivive la discesa dello Spirito Santo nei luoghi dove la memoria di questi eventi e’ piu’ viva. [Israele/Palestina News] [Jerusalem video] [pentecoste] [video terra santa]
From Oxford: Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch will present “Henry VIII’s Enforcer: The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell” this Friday, 24 May, at 9.00pm on BBC Two as part of the BBC Tudor Season.   More information about the programme can... [Church History]
Carol Gilligan’s book In a Different Voice had a tremendous influence on our understanding of gender and morality, even as some disagree with her theories. This is how one website summarized her findings: In the book, Gilligan outlined her findings ... [Gender] [Halakhic Literature] [Jewish Law] [Legal History] [Legal Theory]

5AM

“God’s anger is being poured out from heaven on all the godlessness and injustice of those people who, in their wickedness, suppress the truth. Because that which can be known about God is known to them – God has made it known! From the... [Romans] [Christians] [elect] [epistle] [Gentiles] [God] [homosexuality] [Jews] [judgment] [Justice] [letter] [paraphrase] [Paul] [righteousness] [works] [wrath]
Last year’s instructors of Humanities 1 (Art and Music) developed a new format for the class that is loosely organized around Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a text that has inspired a lot of art and music and is also in large part about human creativit... [art] [Heidegger] [hermeneutics] [husserl] [syllabi]
The BBC has an interesting piece on how they protect their seven million objects from six million visitors annually. Threats include curious hands, inadvertent bumps, and chewing gum. David Saunders, head of conservation and scientific research at the... [Museums]
Roger Pearse, writer/administrator of his eponymous blog, has written a lengthy review of Ancient Gospel or Modern Forgery? The Secret Gospel of Mark in Debate. These are the papers presented at the 2011 York Christian Apocrypha Symposium. Read the review... [Secret Mark] [York Christian Apocrypha]
The HuffPo is ‘collecting’ ‘prayers’ for Oklahoma, turning an act of concern and compassion into an opportunity to act pious.  This is clearly senseless for several reasons, the most important of which are- 1- Prayers are best dir... [pseudo-christianity] [pseudo-theology] [Twitter Theology That Makes Me Sigh]
Sunday, on which by apostolic tradition the paschal mystery is celebrated, must be observed in the universal Church as the primordial holy day of obligation. . . . On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are obliged to participate in th... [Reflections]

4AM

Click here to view the embedded video. I previously mentioned (and shared the text of) this wonderful speech to graduates by John Green at this year’s Butler University Commencement. But now there is a video available. Enjoy! [education] [humor] [address] [Butler University] [commencement] [graduation] [John Green] [speech] [video]
Donate to Disaster Relief (SBC).  All of the money you give will be used for disaster relief.  Unlike the Red Cross, a large percentage isn’t siphoned off donations to pay a CEO’s exorbitant salary.  Your money really will help those most i... [Modern Culture] [Oklahoma disaster relief]
Today I begin a series of posts on “James the Just,” the largely forgotten brother of Jesus, following up on my post last week on the missing key to understanding Christian origins.[1] The disciples said to Jesus, “We know you will leave us.... [Apocalypticism] [Christian Origins] [James Brother of Jesus] [Jesus Dynasty] [John the Baptist]
One of the things I'll miss about this Rabbis Without Borders Fellowship, when it formally ends after this week, is the routine I developed this year of driving to the train station and taking Amtrak into the city, then walking to the hotel where RWB puts... [Rabbis Without Borders] [Travel]
I finished Herman Wouk's The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion.At the end of the book, Wouk quotes the sermon of Professor Aaron Jastrow, who was a character in Wouk's book, War and Remembrance.  As I read the sermon, it seemed familiar to ... [Bible] [family] [Television] [Life] [The Language God Talks] [religion] [Job]

3AM

Watch this.  Funny stuff from a couple of Soccer broadcasters. Filed under: soccer [soccer]
Huldrych Zwingli published his little 19 page Flugschrift Die erste kurze Antwort über Ecks sieben Schlußreden on 21 May, 1526.  Zwingli also addressed it to the Confederation (so that all the Cantons which had embraced Reform would know how Eck shoul... [Church History] [Zwingli]
Over the last year or so I have been listening to scripture straight through in large chunks during my commute (20-25 minutes each way depending on traffic). The Bible Gateway App for my phone has a great feature that permits listening to an audio reading... [Bible]
Rien de tel qu’une bonne session intensive d’hébreu biblique pour bien finir l’année ! Durant trois jours, nous étudierons ensemble une série de textes issus de différents livres de la Bible hébraïque. Ce cours s’adresse en priorité aux ... [Cours] [Bible hébraïque] [hébreu] [Unistra]
What could be better than an intensive Biblical Hebrew session to end the academic year? For three days, we will study together a series of texts from various books of the Hebrew Bible. This course has been designed for students preparing the University... [Courses] [Hebrew Bible] [Hebrew] [Unistra]
I’m glad to announce that Ridley Melbourne has launched The Ridley Certificate which is a fully integrated on-line multi-media  course designed for interested students, lay people, and church groups to grow in their knowledge of the Bible, Christ... [Uncategorized]

2AM

Is this the best that Christians can say? This review is mind-boggling, but somewhat positive. Enjoy. There is way too much ignorance here to bother responding.
John 14.8-17, 25-27; Isaiah 40.1-9.Have you ever found yourself lost for words? Simply unable to find the appropriate syllables to put around the thoughts that exist in your head? A kind of verbal equivalent to ‘writer’s block’ where the words just ...

1AM

Cars can be a nuisance—they consume resources, pollute the environment, and have a habit of being very expensive to repair. We’ve been pretty good about taking our car in for its regularly scheduled Toyota check-up. Since the garage is several miles... [Current Events] [Just for Fun] [Memoirs] [Posts] [Social Consciousness] [Brookline] [civil religion] [Facebook] [first amendment] [Massachusetts] [Ritz Camera] [Society of Biblical Literature] [Toyota] [VPN]
I feel prompted to post part of Psalm 2 this morning 1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,3 “Let us burst ...

12 AM

With the election of our new Pope Francis, one can expect there will continue to be a flood of new books about him being published on a monthly basis for the foreseeable future.  Unlike Benedict XVI, there was barely anything published by or about hi... [Pope Francis] [Book Reviews] [Saint Benedict Press]

May 20, 11PM

The Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, preached a sermon in Venezuela about seeing the glory of others. In the course of her sermon, she says what I think is the strangest and stupidest thing I have ever  heard/... [Uncategorized]

10PM

So once you get outside the cathedral, seeing most anything is possible. York is, like Durham, on a good-sized river. In this case the Ouse (pronounced ooooze of course). But likely the first thing you notice when you get off the train is the old city wal... [Uncategorized]
Some — and probably far more than “some” — believe Christian orthodoxy is a simple, clear, uneventful interpretation of Scripture and, in particular, of the apostolic teaching. In other words, apart from some dipsticks all believed... [theology]