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Please Attack Appalachia: Guest Post
This is a "Guest Post" by Appalachian Author. I found it here (HT Stephen) on Liberation Lit. Mr. President, please attack Appalachia. You have promised the Iraqis that they will share in ...
- Thom: Thanks, Stephen. No need to cite me. Though it isn't, this o...
- Stephen: I really appreciate the word picture of the temple being Cap...
- Thom: Well, the NT authors were not polytheistic. They were firmly...
- Logan: So, I know all this deconstruction and demythologizing stuff...
- Thom: An argument could be made that there were more vestiges of p...
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I got an iPod for Christmas/Birthday, which led to my rediscovery of some ...
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PROPHETIC CONDEMNATIONS OF HUMAN SACRIFICE It is clear from the texts we've looked at ...
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In our account of polytheism in the Hebrew Bible we have already looked ...
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The account of the near-sacrifice of Isaac in Gen 22 is commonly read ...
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Evidence for the general acceptance of the ideology of human sacrifice pervades the ...
Biblical Inerrancy
RMI12: Human Sacrifice, Pt. 5
January 2nd, 2009PROPHETIC CONDEMNATIONS OF HUMAN SACRIFICE It is clear from the texts we've looked at to this point that human sacrifice played at least some role in the religion of early Israel. This is evinced, especially, in the fact that in the 7th and 6th centuries (just prior to and during the Babylonian exile) the practice began to be roundly condemned. In this post we will look at three important textsChristian Ethics
Looking for This Guy?
November 27th, 2008Are you looking for this Jesus? Look elsewhere. Somebody from my new home state of Tennessee just found my blog after performing this Google search: Is Jesus non-violent? Proof against. According to my stats, they were here for 1 second.Church/World
Subverting the Voting Rite
November 9th, 2008My friend Michael DeFazio and I have been having a discussion on the significance of voting here in the U.S. This is a big issue for Christian pacifists, usually influenced by strands of Yoderian and/or Hauerwasian thinking, despite the fact that neither Yoder nor Hauerwas ever said Christian pacifists shouldn't vote. (Yoder was a registered democrat right up until the day he died back in 1997, anHomosexuality
Levelling Christian Homophobia
August 3rd, 2008My fellow Christian pacifist and all-around e-friend Dr. Michael Westmoreland-White of Levellers has finally finished a one-and-a-half year long blog series, spanning 18 posts, arguing for full the inclusion and affirmation of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transsexuals in the church. Michael leads us through a patient discussion of one of the most important political (read: religious) issues of ouLiberation Theology
Yeshua in Palestine
November 13th, 2008Rob Reid, yet another Jesus Politicker, has written a piece, challenging Christians to take a second look at the situation in Palestine, not from the perspective of the Pentagon, or that of the Left-Behind reading, Charles Capps watching, dispensationalist Christian, but from the perspective of the peasant rabbi who walked among the occupied and exploited, and took the side of the oppressed. TakeMiscellaneous
All Over the Shop
May 26th, 2008To those of you who were/are involved in the dialogue on the James Cone thread, On White Man's Religion, I apologize for the big delay in my response. I'm sure most of you have lost interest by now, but I'll be attempting a comprehensive response within the next few days. In the meantime, I've been engaged about my Romans 13 paper by some members of Corpus Paulinum. Loren Rossen and I have beMovie Reviews
Empathy for the Devil
October 22nd, 2008If you're looking for an empathetic take on perhaps the most pathetic president in U.S. history, just head out to your local theater. Last night I saw Oliver Stone's latest, W., starring Josh Brolin as George W. Bush himself (a.k.a. Geo, Dubya, Bushy, Junior, or as Laura once called him, "the Devil in a White Hat"). W. also stars Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush, James Cromwell as Poppy Bush, Ellen BMusic
Musical Interlude
January 2nd, 2009I got an iPod for Christmas/Birthday, which led to my rediscovery of some of my old music today. I thought I'd share some of it with you. Some of these songs are almost a decade old now. The latest (Black Belt Baby) is almost four years old. I wrote a song for my wife on Christmas Eve, but I'm not going to record it. That's the first one I've written in years. I'd like to start writing again, butPauline Theology
Romans 13: Index
May 13th, 2008Romans 13:1-7: A Charter for Political Activism! By Thom Stark Introduction | 01 Imperial Perspective | 02 Ideal Government | 03 Divine Command Clause | 04 Against Anarchy | 05 Angelic Authorities | 06 Stoic Interpretation | 07 Spanish Mission | 08 Jewish Synagogue Authorities | 09 The Benefaction Convention | 10 Taxing Questions | 11 Social Volatility | 12 Not Ordained, Just Ordered | 13 ThePolitics
The Nature of Power
November 6th, 2008The true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. We're going to hold you toReligion/Science
6 Ways of Creationism: Index
December 6th, 2007For your convenience, here are the links to the entire 6 WAYS OF CREATIONISM series. Enjoy: Intro, Way 1, Way 2, Way 3, Way 4, Way 5, Way 6, SabbathSermons
Life & Death, and Resurrection
April 8th, 20071,964 years ago today, God raised Jesus from the dead. Why? Why did God do that? Why did God feel the need to raise Jesus from the dead? I hear some people say that the resurrection proves that Jesus is God. At first, I think, well, that makes some sense. If Jesus was God, death couldn’t really hold him down. So if Jesus was raised from the dead, that means he must have been God. But after aSocial Criticism
Let Them Eat Clay
September 26th, 2008"Let Them Eat Clay" - A Guest Post by Alex Giltner. In my Healthy Relationships course, we do a little class “social” exercise every week, in which three people write down answers to five questions, and then the answers are read, and the class needs to guess who wrote each answer. It is an exercise that a cynic like me finds incredibly dull, but the rest of the class seems to like it alrigTheology
Please Attack Appalachia: Guest Post
February 12th, 2009This is a "Guest Post" by Appalachian Author. I found it here (HT Stephen) on Liberation Lit. Mr. President, please attack Appalachia. You have promised the Iraqis that they will share in the wealth of their oil. We could use some of that same sharing here. We have coal and timber that is being extracted, yet very little of the profits remain in our area. If the Iraqis are to share in the pr
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