The sensitive cynics in my readership should by no means follow the link to this video about shame and vulnerability. They will hate it. It flows with the stream I am currently swimming in, however, which includes The Great Divorce from C. S. Lewis and Breathing Underwater from Richard Rohr. Still in progress is The Community Life of God from Read More

While on a business trip, over dinner the conversation turned toward how business was done back in the day. One of the managers mentioned that he used to sign off on huge expense bills for strip clubs. All agreed that in those days customers expected to be treated to dinner and strip show. It was just the way business was Read More

Copied from Dave Black’s blog – his blog format can make it hard to find particular subjects so I am reproducing wholesale rather than linking back: This Wednesday in our New Testament class we’ll be discussing my book Christian Archy, whose premise is simply that all of our proud substitutions for Christianity are but false Christianities. Whenever we put our Read More

Sometimes one hears an eager apologist cite the more than two hundred Old Testament prophecies that the New Testament teaches were fulfilled in Jesus. Then some miniscule mathematical probability of all these events events randomly coalescing in the same person is used to “prove” the messiahship and deity of Jesus. The problem is that only a small handful of these Read More