Various Topics

Started off foolishly trying to reason with a King James Onlyist (his responses show that was about as useful as trying to reason with Peter Ruckman), and then moved on to a brief review of a prayer to Mary found in the new papal encyclical, and then spent most of the hour looking at some more from Michael Brown’s Calvinist

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.

This morning while making one of my patented-to-be-yummy breakfast burritos I happened to catch Matt Lauer of NBC’s Today show interviewing Frank Moloney and Jeffrey Archer about their new work of fiction, The Gospel According to Judas. It was another incredible example of the state of affairs in Western society and in Roman academia as well. Then we took some

First subject in our 90 minute Jumbo edition: remembering the nature of Scripture while resisting unbelieving ways of scholarship based upon some comments made in review of a recent book on the virgin birth.  Though I think most people “enjoyed” the other two subjects more, this was by far the most important part of the program. Second, what happened “in

Started off discussing the continued moral schizophrenia of Western Culture and the continuing progression of NewSpeak, the evisceration of the language (diversity and inclusive becoming their own antonyms), and then got a few more minutes of Harry Knox’s comments covered as well. Then we shifted gears after a break and I responded to Abdullah Kunde’s article here.