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Keith E. Buhler

Google never ceases to amaze

A new little feature, the recently upgraded Google Toolbar, now allows for instant translation, spell-checking, and instant image search. I’m a fan. What about Google’s privacy policies? Any opinions out there? From the little reading I did, I do not […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Tolkien Again

No, I’m not going to resurrect the Bombadil discussion (see also here and here and here). The newsletter that I published it for has a new website, with all the essays. It’s a great looking site, and what’s more, available […]

Matthew Lee AndersonPolitics

Katrina Timeline

In one of the most helpful posts since Katrina, Rick Moran has created a timeline of the responses to Katrina. Drawing mainly from the Times-Picayune website, Moran's

Matthew Lee AndersonBibleHermeneutics

Jesus' Meaning

Mere-O friend Rick Radcliffe recently wrote one of the most thorough and detailed explications and critiques of Marcus Borg's Christology (as elucidated in The Meaning of Jesus

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

WorldMag Expose

Tim Bayly of the WorldMag extention zeitgeist was simply giving a taste of things to come when he denounced Wheaton earlier this week. In the latest World, Gene Edward Veith has published the first of a three-part examination of Christian […]

Keith E. BuhlerReviews (Theatre)

The Crystal Cathedral's "Creation" - Genesis on audio/visual steriods

The Crystal Cathedral is famous for its annual production of “the Glory of Easter,” featuring dangling angels, resounding music, and live animals. This year, they experiment with a new production along the same lines. The tagline is “Once upon all […]

TexPoetryLiteratureTheology and Practice

The Love of God

From Elizabeth Barrett Browning's The Seraphim: Ador: Weep? Weep blood,All women, all men!He sweated it, He,For your pale womanhoodAnd base manhood. AgreeThat these water-tears,

Matthew Lee AndersonHermeneutics

Discovering Biblical Equality

Like so many trips into the library, my recent excursion had me leaving with books I did not intend to find. In this case, I stumbled upon Gordon Fee’s Listening to the Spirit in the Text (review below). My real […]

Matthew Lee AndersonEducation

Revamped WorldMagBlog

Joe Carter of evangelicaloutpost has added a number of "sideblogs" to World's main blog. Included is zeitgeist, a blog that seems to simply be smart people

TexPolitics

A New Step Towards A Palestinian Dream

A little late on my new attempt to post every weekend, but this news was worth waiting for. It's all over the internet and conventional news sources. The

Matthew Lee Anderson

Reflections on my Past

Our wedding readings and homily pointed toward the future. The wedding celebration, however, was largely concerned with the past. Friends and family alike spent their time marvelling that I, who was such a precocious and irritating little child, actually grew […]

Matthew Lee Anderson

Book Review: Defeating Dark Angels

No area of Christian theology has been so sensationalized and misunderstood as demonology. What is for many Christians an embarrassing doctrine provides Hollywood with the occasional horror/action film—see The Exorcist or Constantine. Or rather, don’t see them. 20th century liberal […]