Codex Sinaiticus
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 Posted in Books, History, Online resources | No Comments »This is going to make me sound super-nerdy, but I found this cool website the other day. In 1844 a guy called Constatin von Tischendorf found a 4thC copy of the entire Bible in a monastery in Sinai. Since then it ...
God is back
Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Posted in Books | 1 Comment »The title may make it sound like a argument for faith-based politics or a breathless refutation of neo-atheism, but it is neither. In God is Back, former Economist journalists John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, show that, contrary to the expectation ...
Why these books and not those?
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in Books, Church, History | No Comments »Last Tuesday at Hub we explored the way in which the New Testament formed, as churches shared documents, built their libraries, and decided which books they would read in church and trust for teaching. But how did the churches know whether ...
Getting stupid to get away from God
Monday, May 11th, 2009 Posted in Books, Theology | No Comments »A couple of weeks ago Ben showed us that hard-heartedness makes you stupid, using a less-than-clever quote from Richard Dawkins. Hard-heartedness is one of the ways the Bible talks about sin, and there are lots of others - idoatory, rebellion, ...
Hard-heartedness makes you stupid
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Books, Current affairs | 5 Comments »Check out this paragraph from Richard Dawkins' book "The God Delusion." "A common argument, attributed among others to C.S. Lewis (who should have known better), states that, since Jesus claimed to be the Son of God, he must have been either ...
Bible Software #1
Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Books, Miscellaneous, Theology | No Comments »I've recently had conversations with several people discussing the merits of different bible software, and perhaps it would be useful to commit some of these thoughts to paper. Over a series of posts I will compare some of the options ...
Reading
Saturday, February 28th, 2009 Posted in Books | 2 Comments »I am a terrible reader. I'm the kind of person who sits down to a magazine article, gets a third of the way through, and can't be bothered reading the rest. I don't know how many books I've read the ...
Is heaven a warehouse?
Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Books, Theology | No Comments »I'm still chewing over stuff after reading The Resurrection of the Son of God by NT Wright (see some of my previous posts). In Wright's opinion—which I suspect is correct—many Christians have unthinkingly accepted our culture's hope of dying and ...
Why white people dominate (part 4)
Thursday, February 12th, 2009 Posted in Books | No Comments »Continued from part 1, part 2 and part 3. Some groups, like Australian Aborigines, never developed food production. But this, of course, was due entirely to where they were, rather than who they were. Australia has no plant species that are ...
Why white people dominate (part 3)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in Books | 3 Comments »Continued from part 1 and part 2. So if food production is the big advantage, why did some societies develop farming, while others didn't? The answer is that in some areas of the world, food production is very easy, while in ...
