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Jeff Should Go to More Bible Sessions

One of the biggest stories this week was the Trump Administration (because Sessions said it and then Sarah Sanders endorsed the general principle without saying she knew his exact words) stance that Romans 13 justifies the policy of separating children from their parents who have entered the country illegally (and even those seeking asylum though […]

Brian Zahnd Critiques Penal Substitution Theory

I am guessing one of you recommended this video to me, back when I blogged about this general topic. Anyway, I just got around to watching it. Very good, especially how he quotes repeatedly from Acts to make his point.

Was the City of Babel (Site of the Famous Tower) the First Kingdom?

A friend sent me this interesting essay talking about the Bible’s treatment of political government. The author acknowledges that traditionally, Christians think the Bible establishes God’s support of the State as an essential institution for the maintenance of justice. (The most obvious passage is Romans 13. Here’s one of many posts I did on that […]

The Man Who Knew Infinity

I watched this last night: It was good stuff, especially because I didn’t catch them doing any Hollywood absurdities (a la John Nash explaining the exact opposite of a Nash equilibrium in the bar scene in A Beautiful Mind). What was interesting is that Ramanujan said, “An equation for me has no meaning unless it […]

Nothing New Under the Sun

In my Bible study we are plodding through Numbers and we looked up the maps to see the Israelites’ route over the 40 years from the Exodus until entering the Promised Land. (TL;DR it was out of Egypt, through modern-day Israel, Jordan, and maybe Syria [just eyeballing the map].) It was amazing to me, since […]

“Render Unto Caesar What Is Caesar’s, and to God What Is God’s”

Someone emailed and asked me to discuss the famous “render unto Caesar” story. So I’ll quote it in full (from Matthew 22), but I’m going to follow with what comes after, to put it in context: Paying Taxes to Caesar 15 Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. 16 And they sent their disciples […]

“That’s My King!” Full Sermon

Ryan Griggs tipped me off to this full sermon that contained the awesome “That’s My King!” portion (which I’ve posted here on the blog several times). I haven’t been able to listen to this yet but here ya go:

Jonah Goldberg on EconTalk on God

Jonah Goldberg is featured in the latest EconTalk, discussing his new book Suicide of the West. It was a very pleasant interview (as these episodes usually are), but there was one thing I found very odd. Jonah and Russ made several references to God throughout the discussion. (Russ is an observant Jew; I guess I […]