Religion
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Bible study doesn’t usually lead to apostasy. But Mark 2:23-28 has a bad track record. Just ask Bart Ehrman, the New Testament scholar whose journey toward athiesm began with wrestling over Mark 2:26. Or ask the Pharisees who wrestled with Jesus in Mark 2:26. Sometimes the bigger the mind, the larger the error. Especially when…
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The internet, it seems, will argue about anything. Is the dress black and blue or white and gold? Is it “Yanny” or “Laurel”? Is cereal a soup? Friendships will be broken and new alliances forged by your answer. So when outrage broke out on social media over the suggestion that Jesus may have been held…
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If Ecclesiastes 11 wasn’t written by the wisest man who ever lived, it would be very tempting to interpret it as a series of Dad jokes – minimally clever, mildly entertaining, but ultimately nonsensical. Verse 3 even reminds me of my dad’s favorite philosophical quote: “Wherever you are . . . there you are.” One…