Ted Haggard draws over 100 people to Prayer Meeting
on Nov 16, 2009 in Religious News ted haggard Former evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says a well-attended prayer meeting at his home wasn’t the start of a new church, but a sign of his resurrection three years after he was forced to resign amid a sex scandal. “For the people who come...

Political Jesus gets Political Spirituality
on Nov 16, 2009 in Technology blog Blogging Rodney has moved, sorta here and started a new personal blog here. Its still hosted on Wordpress.com (I much prefer self-hosted now, although the daily maintenance is a chore at times). Update your links and stop by and say howdy.

Court turns down student over religious speech
on Nov 16, 2009 in Religious News freedom of religion freedom of speech supreme court First, its a public school. Second, it seems that the student and the school had approved on a text of the speech, which she then strayed from. The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a student who complained that high school officials violated...

The use of the word ‘Allah’ by Christians in history and today
on Nov 16, 2009 in Islam allah arabic Christianity God Muslims In southeast Asia, in the countries which are predominantly Muslim, Christians have come under recent attacks for using the word ‘Allah’ for God. Allah as a word for a god predates Islam and can be found among the Arabic Jewish and Christ...

The Literalism of the New Living Translation – Luke 9.31
on Nov 16, 2009 in Bible Translation NLT bible dynamic equivalence essentially literal exodus The criticisms leveled against the NLT are many, but the main one is the loss of ‘literalism’ – however, in Luke 9.31, the NLT is the most literal of them all. NKJ  who appeared in glory and spoke of His decease which He was about...

Does God have DNA?
on Nov 16, 2009 in Joel's Army dna Dominionism Extreme Prophetic Ministries Paulette Reed Really? God has DNA and we are slowly being injected with it? From here. Early in October 2009, we were hosting our monthly Extreme Women’s meeting. Toward the end of the gathering we shared some prophetic words and had a celebration of the g...

Prologues to the Gospels – Matthew
on Nov 16, 2009 in Church Fathers anti-marcionite prologues gnosticism marcion monarchianism We are examining two prologues – Anti-Marcionite and the Monarchian. Most agree that an early date, c200 for the Anti-Marconite Prologues while the latter has a date which ranges from 200-400. We will be using Ben C. Smith’s translation.

Students sue Tenn. county schools over religion
on Nov 16, 2009 in Christian Education Religion and Politics aclu bible public schools Tennessee A federal lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of students accused Cheatham County schools of promoting Christianity and violating the U.S. Constitution. The complaint states the schools showed a pattern of endorsing religion that included the distribution...

Papers I am likely to Submit to the SBL
on Nov 16, 2009 in Other Posts humor satire tabloid post of the week Since I am now a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and, contrary to some opinions, a biblioblogger,  I’ve been thinking about some of the papers I would like to submit for next year’s conference. You know, as part of the affil...

‘Unfriend’ is New Oxford American word of the year
on Nov 16, 2009 in Technology facebook unfriend The New Oxford American Dictionary named “unfriend” — as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook — its word of the year on Monday. Oxford University Press USA, in a blog post, said “unfriend...