Author Archives
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Concluding Comments from Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird
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Larry Hurtado, “The Significance of Earliest Devotional Practices”
Larry Hurtado is a New Testament scholar, historian of early Christianity and Emeritus Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (Professor 1996-2011).
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Dale Martin, “The Theological Inadequacy of Historiography: the Empty Tomb in History and Theology”
Dale B. Martin is the Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies at Yale.
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Sabr
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Cologne sex assaults: Muslim rape myths fit a neo-Nazi agenda
Independent newspaper today Dark myths about sexual assaults in Cologne came into sharp focus last week when a female television journalist was attacked live on air. Esmeralda Labye, a reporter from Belgium, was covering the German city’s annual carnival when… Read More ›
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From Facebook to God’s Book
by Maryam Amirebrahimi, February 20, 2013, 11 min read Many of us have an addictive relationship with Facebook. We check our accounts compulsively, multiple times a day. It is sometimes the last thing many of us do before we sleep… Read More ›
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Why are Jews permitted to pray inside a mosque but forbidden to even step inside a church?
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Whoever is given something did not possess it in the first place
The problem is, if God is all powerful, then how can God be given something He is already supposed to have? Also, most NT scholars consider this verse to be ‘secondary’ ie put into the mouth of Jesus as it… Read More ›
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“How Did Jesus Become God?” – Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird in Dialogue + Q&A – Part 2
Streamed live 16 hours ago
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“How Did Jesus Become God?” – Bart Ehrman and Michael Bird in Dialogue + Q&A
Streamed live 18 hours ago
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A must see – Christian pastor completely destroys gay pastor with the truth
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BVM
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I need this
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I love this – plays tricks on me
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For perspective on the limits of science, here’s Aunt Matilda’s Cake.
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Transformation in Christianity and Islam
Originally posted on Calling Christians:
One of the most often repeated ‘proofs’ about the ‘truth’ of Christianity has been the transformative power of Christ, or the way in which accepting Jesus can change our lives for the better. The New… -
ISIS
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A Toronto church holds a “queer Eucharist”
The Anglican Journal reports today, ‘A Toronto church [part of the Anglican church] now offers a eucharist for LGBT people. At next week’s queer Eucharist, Primate Fred Hiltz is slated to deliver a sermon on the Primates’ Meeting last month in… Read More ›
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What it’s like to convert to Islam – when everyone thinks you’re a terrorist
Paul was an atheist, happily married in what he believed to be a very loving, caring, thoroughly non-religious relationship. He believed that his wife and family prided themselves on tolerance and free discourse, and people’s right to do and think what… Read More ›
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Classic Christian/Muslim debate: Did Jesus die for our sins?
Surprisingly funny debate between Shabir Ally and Jay Smith. Ally is on great form. 5 minute clip.
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The great betrayal
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My review of ‘Jesus, the Fake Jihadis & Evangelical Christians’
The author of this new book Muhammad Asad (not to be confused with the celebrated, and deceased, Quran translator of the same name) has produced an erudite and well written book. Asad describes his objective as ‘not to indulge in… Read More ›
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In case you are wondering: the Catholic Church’s laws of fasting and abstinence.
It is now officially the first day of Lent that begins on Ash Wednesday (today) and covers a period of approximately six weeks before Easter Sunday. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, penance, repentance… Read More ›
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Show your children the beauty of Islam. Children do what we do, not what we tell them to do.
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Can we trust the Qur’an? – James White challenge accepted
Dr Shabir Ally makes some excellent points in refutation of common Christian claims
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Ted Cruz: ‘Waterboarding Is Not Torture’
you decide
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Caliphate: The Arab Conquest
In just a few short years Muslim armies conquered what we call today the Middle East defeating the powerful Byzantine and Persian empires. This was in part a military conquest but the majority of the population were Christian with significant… Read More ›
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James White and an “Absolute Fact”
oh dear oh dear. White embarrasses himself further by making quasi-racist statements about people he calls “Middle Easterners” – he thinks they lack the reasoning ability of Westerners and implies they are dimwitted. White has no idea what he is talking… Read More ›
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Islamophobia and Antisemitism: Same message, different minority.
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A clever pudding
Blogging Theology 