Dr. James Cone is delivering our Convocation address at G-ETS this morning at 11:00 CT, and there will also be a panel discussion at 3:00 CT. His address is titled, “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Cross and the Lynching Tree in the Black Experience.” The link for the live webcasts is www.garrett.edu/convocation. Viewers [...]
Filed under: An Informal Word | Tagged: church, culture, politics, race, religion, theology | Leave a Comment »
Summary: Bruce Waltke made to resign from faculty position for acknowledging fact of evolution. President of seminary celebrates diversity of acceptable views overstepped by Waltke.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Education, Old Testament | Tagged: academia, academic integrity, Critical Thinking, culture, Hermeneutics, politics, religion | 25 Comments »
Summary: Science denial: an interview with Michael Specter on NPR Science Friday.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Education, Links | Tagged: politics, religion, science | 1 Comment »
Summary: International Holocaust Remembrance Day: heads up and resources.
Filed under: An Informal Word, Links | Tagged: history, politics | Leave a Comment »
Christians and the understandable (but childish and dangerous) impulse to change the rules of scientific and historical inquiry in one’s own favor.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Links | Tagged: academic integrity, games, history, politics, religion, science | Leave a Comment »
Debunking the “Barak Obama = antichrist” video.
Filed under: Critical Thinking, Hebrew Language, Old Testament | Tagged: academic integrity, Bible woo, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, language, politics, religion | 19 Comments »
The world’s smallest Hebrew Bible will be given to Pope Benedict XVI by Israeli President Shimon Perez. I had reported earlier on the Hebrew Bible, which is etched onto the gold face of a silicon chip that is one half of a millimeter square. The news came as a surprise to elementary Hebrew students worldwide, [...]
Filed under: Links, Old Testament | Tagged: Hebrew Bible, politics, science | Leave a Comment »
