Here are some unpopular facts: Sex is a biological reality. Gender is at least partly based on sex, and there really are two sexes (male and female) as biologists have known since the dawn of their science. This is not… Read More ›
Reblogging another great article by Eric bin Kisam In the story about the wife of patriarch Abraham, Hagar, and his firstborn son, Ishmael, in the Torah in Genesis/Bereishit 16:7 there was mention of a place named Shur שֽׁוּר. וַֽיִּמְצָאָ֞הּ מַלְאַ֧ךְ יְהוָ֛ה עַל־עֵ֥ין הַמַּ֖יִם בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר עַל־הָעַ֖יִן בְּדֶ֥רֶךְ שֽׁוּר An… Read More ›
Marcus J. Borg, an American New Testament scholar and theologian, in his last book ponders the strange absence of the afterlife in the Jewish Bible: ‘In the Old Testament, which is more than two-thirds of the Christian Bible, belief in… Read More ›
It’s very easy to elevate any sexual deviance into an “orientation” and identity and then create a “minority group” based on that and claim that that minority group deserves rights to pursue/normalise that sexual deviance in society. Adultery, incest, bestiality,… Read More ›
I am reading the Study Quran. Discussion of individual verses is thorough, academically sober, and informative. Here is the discussion of a verse concerning men’s roles vis-à-vis their wives and families. It is refreshingly free of political correctness. First the translation… Read More ›
Professor Jimmy Dunn writes: ‘On the question of the historical value of John’s Gospel there is probably one of the biggest gulfs between New Testament scholarship and the ‘man in the pew’. In preaching and devotional Bible study the assumption is regularly made… Read More ›
Here is the quote in context: “God uses evolution to unfold the living world around us. In a similar way, God uses gravity to unfold the universe on a large scale. Neither gravity nor evolution present challenges for Christian Faith…. Read More ›
A hippy who was ever so calm, Thought that peace was the whole of Islam. His faith got derailed; God’s Oneness, he veiled; For a penny, he’ll now read your palm. II A da‘i who spoke against pride; Bragged we couldn’t… Read More ›
