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  • This morning in church, the praise team played an old praise chorus by Waterdeep that includes the line "You ride upon the clouds." It got me to thinking about how interconnected religions are. My 21st century urban Meth…

  • How theory is like metaphor

    I was sitting on the bus today, listening to The Mekons' Rock 'n' Roll and reading Catherine Bell's densely-theoretical but much-heralded book Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, which I read for the first time as a first-y…

  • Bible answers about Judaism!

    I've been excited about getting to these two questions from Papau2001MK (and you can tell by the fact that I've written a TOME in response):First off - Jewish tradition no longer calls for sacrifice. Why? It strikes me t…

  • The souls of gay folk

    You asked for it and now you've got it: my opinion about the Bible's depictions of homosexuality. Here's what I'm not going to do: rehash what you can get from any half-rate website on the Bible's various verses that re…

  • Bible answers pt 2

    Two more answers. Then tomorrow we tackle homosexuality. Teaser: you are all a whole helluva lot more interested in it than the Bible ever seems to be. From Painsthee, who lives in Nashvegas and therefore has plenty of …

  • Bible answers pt 1

    See Aug 18 for origins. From WeedorWildflower: I don't really care about any of that--studied it all a long time ago. But here's a question, which you can choose to answer or not ... Which Bible passage means the mos…

  • Bible Answer Man 2.0

    Since I can't seem to think of anything I feel particularly like writing, we're going to try something new:Got any questions about the Bible? In particular:Who wrote it, when, and whereHow we have compiled its textIts cu…

  • Where do you think the Bible came from?

    I wanted to respond to a few things, and clear a few things up, about my critique of Dawkins' reading of the Bible. 1. Dawkins has a habit of pointing out fissures in the biblical narrative (repeated stories like the en…

  • You all know how much I enjoy contemplating the absurd. So I had this thought yesterday while I was sitting in my canvas Cleveland Browns chair on my front porch watching neighbor kids playing and studying my Ugaritic fo…

  • This is me putting off putting together a presentation on the history of biblical criticism. Hi. How's everybody? Good holiday? 1. No, I'm not going to Over the Rhine tomorrow. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm j…