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A few weeks ago, on Passion Sunday, it came to me in a flash that all of God's generosity, his gift of the "blessings of this life,...

I am not up to expressing eloquently how much Pastor Ken Miller should humble us, his fellow Christians. Here is his first update from fede...

Consider the following scenarios: --A man kills his wife in a hunting “accident.” The police are convinced that it was deliberate but know...

The followers (many of them very unpleasant indeed) of a certain political candidate (who should be a joke but unfortunately isn't) whos...

Here is a recording of a talk I gave on March 29 about undesigned coincidences in the gospels and Acts.

I first wrote the post that I am, to some extent, recycling back in 2011. It's here . And the second post by the same name is here . And...

In the novel Theophilus , Michael O'Brien portrays the main character, a physician like Luke but not initially a Christian believer, as ...

Through the invaluable Screwtape, telling his nephew demon how to tempt, we get the following words of wisdom from C.S. Lewis: Your patie...

I've been getting a civics lesson lately in what is meant by a "brokered convention." I've done some googling, and asked a...

Ben Shapiro has been excellent in his criticisms of a certain dreadful political candidate, D.T., whose last name rhymes with "Dump....

Having grown up without the Internet, I am often fascinated, not to mention dismayed, by the ways in which the Internet has changed the very...

In the on-going thread on the reliability of the gospels, I wrote something about New Testament studies that I think should be highlighted e...

In the wake of the death of the great Justice Antonin Scalia, the Internet guarantees that there are many words. That is what the Internet p...

 How sleep the Brave    HOW sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers...

My blogging time has been dominated lately by discussions generated from my post here on Mike Licona's approach to gospel difficulties....

I have a long post just up at What's Wrong With the World on Mike Licona's approach in his forthcoming book to Gospel discrepancies...

Host Adam Miller interviewed me on Songtime, a northeastern radio broadcast, last week on the "same God" debate. He had read my ar...

I'm sorry to have to announce that, for the time being, I have changed the settings for commenting here at Extra Thoughts to "regis...

Having been raised as a conservative Baptist, I'm surprised that I only just last week ran across the following saying: If we can'...