Monday Miscellaneous

Well, this looks like fun! Of course, I know it is all just a cover. Pat Abendroth is currently training 12 hours a day to ensure that at the right time he will be able to look back at me, like Armstrong did to Ullrich on l’Alpe d’Huez in 2001, and then rocket away, leaving me gasping for breath. I

I am currently cruising at about 36,000 feet on my way to the conference in Anchorage, Alaska. I was doing what is normally called “sermon preparation,” but for me of late, that has been focused very much upon the text itself. That is, I have found great freedom (and the people of God have seemed to be especially blessed) when

Norman Geisler has posted a lengthy defense of Ergun Caner on his website. It is a collection of all of the attempts to explain Caner’s myths over the past few months, but it ignores major portions of the data that exists relating to Caner’s claims. It is a sad spectacle to see the man best known for the defense of

First, please pray for the debate this evening on Long Island. I have found a setting on the little streaming PC that should make the audio much clearer and louder for those who will wish to listen live on the regular DL link. I should have it fired up and running by 7pm EDT (unless I have to run solely

   Carla’s been busy cranking out designs for Team Apologian, our dear friend Mylo Hatzenbuhler, and Iron Sharpens Iron. If you haven’t visited in a while, check out the new designs, especially those with the A&O Logo on them.

   I just happened to pop on CNN in my cabin and whose face did I see but Tony Campolo. On the screen he is identified as a “spiritual adviser.” So I started listening very closely, as they were discussing the Haggard situation. What words did I hear? “Problems.” “Asking for help.” “Issues.” “Problems.” “Needed to be liberated.” “Restoration process.” “Demons

The Charge that no Knowledgeable Muslim Would Mis-cite the Hadith as Caner Did.—It is charged that Caner often cites the Hadith without mentioning the actual name of the collection.  But, as even Muslim scholars admit, there is no “official” way to cite the Hadith.  It is often cited without reference to the collection.  Just as the citation of the hadith

So I get this e-mail today from DR saying that if I really accepted the apology for the last colorful-metaphor-filled blast from a staff member there, I’d pull it from my blog. I pointed out in response that I would, but, since I read the letter on the air, and mentioned I had posted it on my blog, its absence