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QCNT

If you aren't meticulous in your note-taking, always using quotation marks and saving your full citation, you might accidentally do this: One of the distinguishing marks of the child of God is love, a love that originates in God, displays itself in actions of...

Random Free Cartoon Friday

I know this is obscure. I’m not trying to be elitist; I just couldn’t shake this idea. Don’t try too hard to figure it out. It’s not really very funny. I’ll just give one hint: I spent a lot of time this week reading one of the hugest, strangest, bestest festschrifts...

ICM

Islamic Contemporary Music was profiled recently in the NY Times. This line jumped out at me (where he says “music” I think you can safely read “pop music”): “People say you can’t mix God and music,” Tamer said. “But we’re trying to show you can.” Interestingly, the...

Interesting News Item

The Wholly Holy Bible Diet has been a hit with Charismatics since it began releasing its series of Bible-themed foods and beverages in 1998. “All our ingredients come wholly from the pages of the Holy Bible” has been its slogan—and its practice—since the beginning....

Ripping Off Moisés Silva

I’m stealing brazenly from Moisés Silva (see my previous post quoting him at length), but perhaps this post may still amuse and inform you. Silva provides the set-up, I the made-up text and exegesis. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Silva: "It is...

Just Do Something: How to Make a Decision without Cabbage-Reading

By [Jonathan] Edwards' time witchcraft and the preternatural had almost disappeared from clerical attention. In 1690 Cotton Mather could preach about a prodigious cabbage root he had seen that had one branch shaped like a cutlass, another like a rapier, and another...

Probably Not Funny

What if the Scientologists took over the Wilds? What would the new Ken Collier’s favorite saying be? Just two choices in the cupboard: pleasing self or L. Ron Hubbard.

Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament

Beale and Carson explain what they will not cover in their preface to the Commentary on the New Testament use of the Old Testament: We have not summarized the extraordinarily complex developments in the field of typology since Leonhard Goppelt wrote his 1939 book...

Pistis Faith Movement

I thought I was breaking new ground with my Pistis Faith post, but, sadly, someone else appears to have beaten me to it. Either that or I've started a movement.