July 5, 2005

Since the so-called journalism of network TV portrayed the materialist and naturalistic Jesus Seminary scholars as “biblical” scholarship, James White contextualizes their radical stance by reading Funk’s statement of faith with all its vitriol and hatred for every component of Orthodox faith. The charge to de-mythologize scholarship, not idolize it, which in this case uses circular reasoning.

Started off just wandering around a bit, including quoting @HonestToddler from Twitter, and then addressed some comments from Tim Staples from an edition of Catholic Answers Live from a few weeks ago, then addressed some pretty interesting comments by Pastor Bob Hadley against Calvinism, and then went back to the Calvinist Call In program with Michael Brown.

Spent the first fifteen minutes discussing the big story in the news today, the utter audacity of a leading military general in the United States—he has morals! We watch those who would deny us the right to say “homosexuality is wrong” writhing in anguish at the continued existence (by God’s grace) of men and women in our society who still

Went for two hours today, having planned to cover four topics at 30 minutes each—and failing that plan miserably. I took way too much time responding to Micah Coate’s attempt to get around Romans 9 by chopping it up into disparate, disconnected parts and ignoring the flow of thought and argumentation. I have been told that in this he is

Started off with a brief report on my encounter with Brian McLaren on the Unbelievable program in London (the show airs on Saturday, we will link to it once it is posted). Then finished off the Ehrman/Licona dialogue, alson from Unbelievable, and then took a call from Patrick on the role of evidence in apologetics.