July 22, 2003

Started off with a solid twenty minutes on the use of lexical sources and, in particular, recognizing the difference between scholarly facts and scholarly interpretation, using the graphics provided immediately below. Then the calls started, and we (expectedly) went over the Caner situation, and the Geisler statement. I told the story of what happened just under a decade ago with

I guess I forgot to blog last Thursday’s DL (and no one even mentioned it!). We continued our examination of the Chris Green/Paul Williams debate, as I recall. Today we covered a wide variety of topics at the start, and then focused in on a particular section of a new book by Jay Michaelson, God vs. Gay, that illustrates many

Did my first “solo run” on the DL yesterday, as it was July 4th and Rich had other things to do, so…I ran the whole thing on my own! Finished up my review of the Oliphint/Jaros dialogue (about 50 minutes on that), and then went back to reviewing Yusuf Ismail/William Lane Craig. A jumbo (90 minute) edition! And don’t forget

John continues his review with the Preservation of the Saints. We had some serious problems with the original recording so John came in for a redo and here it is.

Today on the DL I was joined by Sam Shamoun and we discussed the story of Zaynab bint Jash and the Qur’an. It is a very important subject in analyzying the Qur’an.