More Scenes from an Easter Service
Two more videos from the Easter service at Crooked Creek Baptist Church:Click here to view the embedded video.Click here to view the embedded video.
View ArticleEaster in Memory of Her
Click here to view the embedded video.I had seen April DeConick mention on her blog the Easter musical performance, “Easter in Memory of Her,” for which she composed the script. I hoped that it might...
View ArticleHappy Easter!
To all those who celebrate Easter today, I wish you a happy one!Hristos a înviat! Χριστός ἀνέστη! המשיח קם! ܡܫܝܚܐ ܩܡ! Христос воскресе! Kristus z mŕtvych vstal!
View ArticleThe Doctor at the Original Christmas and Easter
Click here to view the embedded video. This video brings together two clips from the Doctor Who episodes “Voyage of the Damned” and “Planet of the Dead,” in which the Doctor refers to having been...
View ArticleJesus was NOT a Zombie
Jeremy Smith wants to make sure that, if you are a nerd who is inclined to be sacrilegious as the Halloween season draws near (or at Easter, for that matter), you at least do it accurately. And so he...
View ArticleI Believe in Easter Bunnies
Click here to view the embedded video. I actually had the vague idea for this song last year, when it was snowy around Easter time. Today, as it is snowing outside again, and I have a cold for the...
View ArticleHoly Week at Crooked Creek Baptist Church
First, the funny part. In an earlier version of the announcement on my church website about Holy Week events, it said of the lunchtime Good Friday service: The theme for the service will focus on the...
View ArticleHow Christianity Started
Despite having received criticism the last time he did so, C. Michael Patton has posted these two images again, which are supposed to compare how Christianity started with how all other religions...
View ArticleEaster War on Information Literacy
It is always particularly disappointing when those who classify themselves as freethinkers and skeptics share nonsense. This image is making the rounds again in precisely those circles: Candida Moss...
View ArticleEaster Approaches
Marcus Borg, Kimberly Winston, and Jim Naughton all raised the question of whether Christians need to believe that Jesus rose bodily from the dead. Their conclusions are different, in interesting ways....
View ArticleEaster Cake
That’s one way of depicting the resurrection. Via Christian Funny Pictures.
View ArticleHappily Easter After
It is Easter, and I celebrate and proclaim resurrection. I am not referring to a peculiar event which some claim happened in history roughly 2,000 years ago, in which a human (or, according to some, a...
View ArticleIgnoring the Most Biblical Explanation
The above chart comes from NonStamp Collector, via Hemant Mehta. In addition to Biblical inerrantists ignoring the most obvious and reasonable explanation of what is in the Bible, they are actually...
View ArticleRefugeaster
This Sunday morning’s service at Crooked Creek Baptist Church was held jointly not just with the members of Grace Tabernacle, a Congolese congregation that has been sharing our building, but with many...
View ArticleTaking Easter Seriously
From Jericho Brisance. HT Hemant Mehta. Brisance gives an account of how his views have changed on various subjects, including the following observation: I consider that I may never have actually...
View ArticleThe Burial of Jesus
I wrote the book The Burial of Jesus: What Does History Have to Do with Faith? to mediate historical approaches to the Bible and to Jesus to a Christian audience, and to wrestle with the stories of...
View ArticleHappy Easter!
Click here to view the embedded video.Take a look at the Easter page on the Patheos website for verbal reflections on the subject. The video above features a brief excerpt from Latvian Baptist composer...
View ArticleThe Disinterment of Jesus?
Having blogged on Friday about my book The Burial of Jesus, which talks not just about the crucifixion and the burial but also the rise of resurrection faith, let me share another quote from the book,...
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