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Covered a wide range of topics today, such as: Psalm 36:4 and the need to despise evil; the growing evidence that the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” fragment is a modern day fraud; the fundamentalist, non-reflective secularism of Adam Gopnik; Paul Williams’ love affair with the nuttiest of history and theology; more examples of how intolerant those of the left are

Unfortunately, the program wasn’t about Ehrman finally taking a stand on the Qur’an (that would be quite the news!).  Instead, I started off with some comments on Ehrman’s new book (I am about halfway through it) and how I hope to use its release as a teaching opportunity to address a wider set of issues.  The kind of arguments in

   I am very pleased to have as my guests on The Dividing Line this coming Tuesday morning, 11am MST, Dr. Sam Waldron and Pastor Richard Barcellos. If you do almost any reading in things Reformed Baptist you know both names immediately. Both brothers are a part of the expanding work of The Midwest Center for Theological Studies. Both are authors

   I managed to figure out where I left off in reviewing Paige Patterson’s presentation at the SBC, so we picked up right there today on the DL. For some odd reason got no calls, took no break, but pressed on for the whole hour on that one subject. And guess what? Paige Patterson mis-quoted a particular verse. Yes, that verse,

   And when I say Jimmy Akin, I mean it. He called the program (right at the end…we went long to give him enough time). The first 40 minutes or so included clips from sermons at the Southern Baptist Convention and a discussion of the dogged unwillingness of many to address the important issues with any sense of seriousness; then we

Started off with a little Lumpy news and comment, then moved into the California AB 460 absurdity, a good bit more on that general topic, later threw in some Qur’an discussion, some clips from the Wilson/Sullivan debate, and a bunch of good calls. I was as tired as could be, but hope it is useful anyway!

Took me a little longer than I expected to make it through the last half of Deedat’s horrific “crucifiction” arguments, but we sure did run into some real whoppers on his part as far as simple dishonesty goes.  Then I looked briefly at Paul Williams promoting non-Christian Christianity, then we started looking at the very recent “Calvinist debate,” starting with looking