[ad hoc] Christianity

In our fifth blogosphere roundup, Matthew and Steve try to see how many articles they can cram into the space of an hour. How did we fare?

• Glenn Peoples (Say Hello to My Little Friend): When God attacks: Trying to make sense of God in natural disasters
• Nick Norelli (Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth): Review of Bart Ehrman’s Forged: Writing in the Name of God
• Tyler F. Williams (Codex: Resources for Biblical, Theological, and Religious Studies): Who’s Mark and What’s His Secret?
• Austin J. Alexander: New Dissertation on the Synoptics Seems Like It’s Missing Something
• Joel Watts (Unsettled Christianity): Abraham-era water tunnel is target of dig – That’s really old
• Bill Heroman (NT/History Blog): How’d I miss this?
• Catholics — deficient theology?
  • Joel Watts (Unsettled Christianity): I am a catholic Christian
  • Rodney Thomas (Political Jesus): A Letter to My Catholic Friends
  • Jeremy Thompson (Free Old Testament Audio): Deficient theology, Indeed!
• Isaiah and Jesus
  • Crystal S. Lewis (Diary of a Christian Universagnosticostal): Today was “Isaiah-Wasn’t-Prophesying-About-Mary” Day in my class. It wasn’t pretty.
  • Gavin Rumney (Otagosh): The Mistaken Virgin
  • Crystal S. Lewis (Diary of a Christian Universagnosticostal): “Wonderful Counselor, Prince of Peace”… Jesus?
• Jeremy (Don’t Be Hasty): Living humanly in the time of the Fall
• David Stark (NT Interpretation): Letting Paul Be Paul
• John Anngeister (Next Theology): Jesus was not illiterate, and he had reasons for not writing
• K. Luciole (Luciole Press Blog): Dr. Francesca Stavrakopoulou: “(God had a wife) Ancient Israelites worshipped a God and Goddess in the same temple”
• Kevin Brown (Diglotting): Progressive Christianity
• George Athas (With Meagre Powers): Can we date biblical texts on linguistic grounds? and More on linguistic dating of biblical texts…
• Ken Brown (C. Orthodox): What Does It Mean to Trust the Bible?
  • James McGrath (Exploring Our Matrix): Valuing Jesus’ Opinion
• Miroslav Volf (via Religion Nerd): Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?
  • Brian LePort (Near Emmaus): Miroslav Volf on whether or not Christians and Muslims worship the same God
• Rob Bell, Justin Taylor, et al. on universalism…or whatever…
  • Kurt Willems (The Pangea Blog): If Rob Bell is a Universalist, then maybe I am – along with many prominent evangelicals? (A response to Justin Taylor)
  • Michael Patton (Parchment and Pen): Ben Witherington, Justin Taylor, John Piper, and the Rob Bell Circus
  • Richard Beck (Experimental Theology): Musings about Universalism, Part 1: What C.S. Lewis, N.T. Wright and (Maybe) Rob Bell Get Wrong
  • Robin Parry (Theological Scribbles): How to Discuss Rob Bell without Killing Each Other
• Lisa Robinson (Parchment and Pen): Tips on Engaging in Honest Theological Dialogue
• David Withun (Pious Fabrications): The Rise of Christianity: How Women and Slaves Conquered the World
• Mark Goodacre (NT Blog): NT Pod 50: What do we know about the sisters of Jesus?
• Michael Heiser (PaleoBabble): Dinosaur Petroglyphs and a Lesson in Intellectual Dishonesty
• Doug Chaplin (clayboy): Dust you are. Ash and you shall receive.
• Jared Calaway (Antiquitopia): The Transfiguration of the Disciples in the Gospel of Philip
• Michael Dowd (Evolutionary Christianity): Is Biblicist Christianity Bankrupt?
• Steve Wiggins (Sects and Violence in the Ancient World): Myth of Jerusalem
• Salman Hameed (Irtiqa): On the teaching of evolution across the world
• Michael Holmes (Earliest Christianity): How Well Does the Late-Second Century NT Text Represent the First-Century Text?
• JohnDave Medina (Near Emmaus): Sunday Quote: Bonhoeffer on Certainty
• Adrian Murdoch: Emperors of Rome: Titus
• Women in Ministry
  • Suzanne McCarthy (Suzanne’s Bookshelf): Invitation to Mike Heiser and John Hobbins and Formal Rebuttal on women in ministry
  • Michael Heiser (The Naked Bible): Women as Ministers: Update and Some Scattered Thoughts, A Thanks to John Hobbins Regarding the Women in Ministry Issue, and Women in Ministry: Next Round with John Hobbins
  • John Hobbins (Ancient Hebrew Poetry): Michael Heiser incurs the wrath of Suzanne McCarthy
• Rodney Thomas (Political Jesus): Katie’s Cannon(ization): Inerrancy As White Evangelical Folklore
• Arni Zachariassen (I Think I Believe): People need to stop asking who created God
• Kathy Escobar (the carnival in my head): cross-gender friendships
• John Byron (The Biblical World): Infertility and the Bible 7: Options Available to the Childless – Surrogacy
• Phil Harland (Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean): Podcast 5.15: Jesus as a Messianic King?
• Richard Fellows (Paul and co-workers): Junia, a female apostle, or a Hebrew man’s name?

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