From the monthly archives:

October 2009

A little notice

October 28, 2009

Blogging may be light to non-existent for a few days. The same applies to comment moderation, so please take this as advance warning if you feel you are stuck in moderation purgatory.
Incidentally, moderation kicks in if you’re a new commenter, if you have too many links, or if you inadvertently include a combination of letters [...]

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Being nice about the Christian Right

October 27, 2009

I have discovered that the so-called Christian right is much less monolithic, and very much more polite and hospitable, than I would once have thought, or than most liberals believe.

You’ll never guess who said that, or will you?

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Oh Delilah! Did Samson die a happy man?

October 27, 2009

Well, he did end up with a really big beam on his face.

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Russian Spam

October 27, 2009

Am I the only one who is suddenly finding a spike in Russian spam comments with a stupidly large – like bound-to-be-caught-in-a-spam-trap-large – number of links?

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Catholic atheists and Anglican agnostics

October 26, 2009

Well, not really, but a rather fun atheist parody of the Pope’s offer to the “traditionalists”.

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Claude and the Canon: how much would you hide historical complexity from beginners?

October 26, 2009

Claude Mariottini writes what is clearly a (very) introductory post for people who know less than little about the Christian – well, Protestant – Old Testament canon.
Along the way he makes these statements

In antiquity, the Jewish people called the whole collection known today as the Old Testament by the three divisions of which the Bible [...]

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Nobody expects the Roman inquisition …

October 26, 2009

… to be the hero.
However, I am currently reading my way slowly through Diarmaid McCulloch’s History of Christianity. When I’ve finished it (sometime in the next decade given the size of it, I shouldn’t wonder) I hope to say more about it. However it is full of fascinating nuggets.
Did you know that the first Christian [...]

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Autumn Gold

October 26, 2009
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The colours of autumn are wonderful. Here are three photos from a walk yesterday. I hope you enjoy them. The Brockhampton estate where they were taken is just over the Worcestershire border into Herefordshire.

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Safari search: why can’t I do it my way?

October 26, 2009

Google was playing up for a short spell just now when I needed to find something in a hurry. I discovered for the first time that there is no way to choose a different search engine in Safari. (Well, there is a hideous way that involves terminal and re-writing code, but that isn’t a “select [...]

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Rescuing priesthood from Witherington’s “perfectly clear” NT

October 26, 2009

Ben Witherington has a post up today on Why arguments against women in ministry aren’t biblical. I shall assume that in his discussions of the arguments offered by evangelicals on the basis of specific texts he knows what he is talking about. I find them rather bizarre but I imagine he must have those arguments [...]

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