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Noah: The Motion Picture
For those interested in the Bible as perceived and depicted in popular culture, the motion picture “Noah” that is in the works, starring Russell Crowe as Noah and Anthony Hopkins as Methuselah, is...
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It All Started With That 150 Gallons of Wine
This cartoon from ASBO Jesus offers a humorous slant on an aspect of the Cana story in John 2 that can be problematic. Jesus is depicted as making 120-180 gallons of really excellent wine at a wedding...
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Episcopal Advent Calendar
For all my Episcopal friends, via Episcopal Church Memes on Facebook.
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Two Shekel Chuck
It has been proposed that the above Hebrew inscription may have indicated that the vessel contained wine of the lowest quality. The article’s proposed connections with Solomon are pure speculation, but...
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Proof That God Loves Us
I fact-checked the quote about beer that is often attributed to Ben Franklin (“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”), and found that it is an adaptation of something that Franklin...
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The Physics of Water Into Wine
Some physicists have done a study of the energy involved in turning water into wine. It seems that it may in fact have involved a very different process than what SMBC depicted in cartoon form a while...
View ArticleNoah: The Motion Picture
For those interested in the Bible as perceived and depicted in popular culture, the motion picture “Noah” that is in the works, starring Russell Crowe as Noah and Anthony Hopkins as Methuselah, is...
View ArticleIt All Started With That 150 Gallons of Wine
This cartoon from ASBO Jesus offers a humorous slant on an aspect of the Cana story in John 2 that can be problematic. Jesus is depicted as making 120-180 gallons of really excellent wine at a wedding...
View ArticleEpiscopal Advent Calendar
For all my Episcopal friends, via Episcopal Church Memes on Facebook.
View ArticleTwo Shekel Chuck
It has been proposed that the above Hebrew inscription may have indicated that the vessel contained wine of the lowest quality. The article’s proposed connections with Solomon are pure speculation, but...
View ArticleProof That God Loves Us
I fact-checked the quote about beer that is often attributed to Ben Franklin (“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”), and found that it is an adaptation of something that Franklin...
View ArticleHow Children are Led Astray into the Sin of “Biblical Literalism”
This page from a children’s Bible, which a friend shared on Facebook, seems to me a perfect illustration of the distortion that so-called “biblical literalists” regularly engage in. They decide what...
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