Monthly Archives June 2009

Frequent and harmonious meetings

30 June 2009 Early Church, Nonviolence  No comments

Therefore make every effort to come together more frequently to give thanks and glory to God. For when you meet together frequently, the powers of Satan are overthrown and his destructiveness is nullified by the unanimity of your faith. There is

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Keeping the death chamber windows open

30 June 2009 Torture  No comments

This letter from Sister Helen Prejean is positively stellar. Writing to the California Department of Corrections on a recent proposal, she made wonderfully and graphically clear how depraved we can be as humans. She urged California to
KEEP

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Christians: take a stand! Torture must stop!

30 June 2009 Torture  No comments

Mohammed Jawad was captured in Kabul and given over to the US forces in 2003. At the time he was around 14 years young. And this is what the US has done to him:
What is not in dispute is that he was no older than an adolescent, and that since his

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The debate over hell continues

30 June 2009 Theology  No comments

Thanks to the help of a brother I've been reading through Edward Fudge's The Fire That Consumes. No, I don't need help reading; he's graciously allowed me to borrow the book (he's also let me borrow the Fudge and William Peterson dialogue, Two Views

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Paul’s Bones Confirmed…?

28 June 2009 History  No comments

Apparently after some carbon dating showed fragments of bones were from the first or second century A.D., Pope Ratzinger declared
This seems to confirm the unanimous and uncontested tradition that they are the mortal remains of the Apostle Paul

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What I Tweeted for 2009-06-28

28 June 2009 Musings  No comments

RT @SteveFouch: change ur location in Twitter Settings 2 Tehran. Officials are trying to find all twitterers. Make their work impossible. #
RT @ERBks: #churchcalendar 6/22 St. Alban 1st Martyr in Britain (c. 304) http://bit.ly/1zRQg #
Ryan,

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Taking notice of torture…again

22 June 2009 Torture  2 comments

Clever. But, more importantly, will Christians who currently support either terror or harsh interrogation, especially those who do not consider something like waterboarding torture, take a minute and reflect?

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What I Tweeted for 2009-06-21

21 June 2009 Musings  No comments

Interesting. Will have a peek. RT @smashingmag: HTML5 Gallery - http://tr.im/owUu - A showcase of sites using html5 markup #
you've got to be kidding me! Seriously? #
RT @living3368: RT multiple sources: "140 characters is a novel when

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Meme on books that influenced my reading of the Bible

19 June 2009 New Testament, Old Testament  No comments

There is one of those memes going around in which people volunteer a list of books that influenced their readings of the Bible. The rules say that works are not limited to Biblical studies literature, but can include religious works or works of literature.

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Wayne Leman and Explaining Bible Translations

17 June 2009 Bible Translations  One comment

Wayne Leman, from the absolute must Better Bibles Blog, wrote a great little post on explaining the words in a Bible translation. He communicated perfectly something I've been trying—and failing—to get across to folks for years.The issue is whether

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Paul, Hell, Citizenship, and The Cyclops

16 June 2009 Theology  No comments

While looking at a passage for a mention of hell, I stumble on a study that simply kept growing.

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What I Tweeted for 2009-06-14

14 June 2009 Musings  No comments

RT @smashingmag: Upcoming Web Design Trend? Adaptive CSS-Layouts: New Era In Fluid Layouts? - http://digg.com/d1tLpd?t #
RT @smashingmag: Why Flash is bad from the usability point of view - http://tr.im/nTGf (by @nikibrown) #
RT @smashingmag:

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What I Tweeted for 2009-06-07

7 June 2009 Musings  2 comments

RT @Terje_Lindblom: Metro sells off US newspaper business http://bit.ly/fcn1S (via @Journalism_) #
RT @timakimoff: RT @NiemanLabNew video at the Lab: the New York Times R&D group envisions version 2.0 of the newspaper http://tr.im/l0qO #
RT

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Churches and Guns: Celebrating the 2nd Amendment

5 June 2009 Nonviolence, Top Stories  4 comments

I saw this story and had to insert it into my Churches and Guns series. This fits so well and is a perfect example of one of the strongest reasons why some churches believe having guns in services is okay. It's not only about protection.

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Vivian’s Opinion on Torture

4 June 2009 Torture  3 comments

As I recently mentioned, Tim Vivian wrote a short follow up to an opinion piece he wrote on 10 May. The reason I had a hard time finding the original piece was because, as it turns out, the title was not properly input. The title should be "Should a

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Talking Today: 2009-06-04

4 June 2009 Musings  No comments

using lots of folders in Photoshop doesn't seem to work out if you're not labeling them. What the heck is in Group 7? Oh yeah...Shape 35! #
Lawsuit targets 'rip-off' of 'Catcher in the Rye' - http://bit.ly/15bCR6 #cnn #

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